Washington Post's Excellent "The Blast Effect"
We're re-sending because we MUST get this fixed. Bullets from AR-15s travel at MACH 3, shred vital organs, and create a HUGE exit wound. We must protect our children from this insane lust for guns.
This is the best illustration yet put together of what forensic pathologists and trauma surgeons and families seeāthe images we never see, so we never really get it.
There are no wound photos here, just animations. Still, the animations are so hard to take in that WaPo starts with a warning of disturbing content that viewers should take to heart.
To view the presentation, please follow this link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-damage-to-human-body/?itid=sr_1
I know someone at SCOTUS will read this, but not many.
The first shotgun victim I ever saw was a 17 year old who had been playing basketball with his friends. Neighbor kid shot him in the chest āas a jokeā. When we got him in the ER he was talking to us & begging us to save his life. When we turned him over the hole caused by the blast had ripped his back wide open. He was staring at me saying āI donāt want to die save meāā¦then he died. 15 year old neighbor thought it would be funny to scare him with the āunloadedāshotgun.
Christ, what the evil NRA has done to our country since I saw that kid 30 years ago. Iāll never forget him & Iāll never forgive the NRA, who did nothing when 20 little kids & their teachers were shit to death. They did nothing.