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KT2000

(20,577 posts)
5. We need "in your face education"
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 11:40 PM
Sep 2019

about why these weapons are not for the public. We need doctors to show on TV why these weapons and their injuries are different than the injuries inflicted by handguns. Doctors have been interviewed many times in print but the public needs to see the pictures and the damage done.
The exit wound is the size of an orange or softball. Organs are pulverized and nothing can be done.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/what-i-saw-treating-the-victims-from-parkland-should-change-the-debate-on-guns/553937/

"The injury along the path of the bullet from an AR-15 is vastly different from a low-velocity handgun injury. The bullet from an AR-15 passes through the body like a cigarette boat traveling at maximum speed through a tiny canal. The tissue next to the bullet is elastic—moving away from the bullet like waves of water displaced by the boat—and then returns and settles back. This process is called cavitation; it leaves the displaced tissue damaged or killed. The high-velocity bullet causes a swath of tissue damage that extends several inches from its path. It does not have to actually hit an artery to damage it and cause catastrophic bleeding. Exit wounds can be the size of an orange."

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