The AR-15 Is Different: What I Learned Treating Parkland Victims – The Atlantic

Heather Sher is a radiologist in a hospital trauma center with 13 years of experience reading scans.  She makes the point that gunshot wounds from handguns leave the kind of damage behind that requires either skill or unlucky chance to kill someone.  It’s not just the number of shots per second that are at issue in the debate on access to guns.  High-velocity bullets shot from an AR-15 create a much broader swathe of damage in its path, increasing lethality significantly, and, as she states leaving “nothing left to repair, and utterly, devastatingly, nothing that could be done to fix the problem. ”

Read it, if you can.  

The AR-15 Is Different: What I Learned Treating Parkland Victims – The Atlantic

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