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Ask Nidal Hasan. That said, I saw an interview of one of his victims — a young guy who had been shot in both legs, one arm, and in the chest with Hasan's bullets. He stayed in the fight, and he dragged a couple of other wounded people to safety under his own power, with a chest wound from an FN 5.7 bullet. He had a pneumothorax and required a chest tube to reduce it, but he was out of the hospital and walking around just 3 or 4 days later. I was suitably impressed with him, and not so impressed with the cartridge as a self defense round. I'm not offering to bet my next paycheck on it, but I suspect that other more traditional handgun cartridges (9mm, .40 S&W, .45 ACP, etc.) might actually have been more effective if fired in an equal number of rounds to what Hasan fired.... but I'm willing to be corrected on that if I'm wrong. He killed a lot of people, but even given the high casualty count of 43 total, he "only" killed a fraction more than 30% of his victims. I don't know if that is a testimony to the survivors' good luck, or a testimony to the 5.7 being over-rated.

OTH, it might be the perfect thing for blowing up squirrels and prairie dogs.