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Exactly. It takes a BIG hole to cause a blowout. A small hole, like a nail in a tyre,, causes a slow flat. Arthur C Clarke knew this back in 1953, when he wrote The Sands of Mars. The ship is hit by a micrometeorite; the result is a slow pressure drop, not a blowout.
Mind you, if the shot went through a plastic aircraft window which cracked wide open, yes, a catastrophic blowout could occur. But not necessarily.
I recall Oddjob being shot out of a window like a champagne cork in Goldfinger (the book as well as the film) and I thing Fleming said "sucked" in the book...
Why do I remember these things? It's a worry.
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