An AR-15 is just a medium power gun, that's why they are primarily only used to hunt vermin like foxes and racoons. A higher power gun like a 30-06 hunting rifle would be much better for larger game. The "assault rifle" hyperbole is pure propaganda. If you don't believe me, look up the muzzle-energy for the two-the AR-15 is barely half as powerful. The AR-15 is no more or less than a semi-automatic carbine but, if you call them that, it wouldn't scare enough people.
No, it isnt a medium power gun. Respectfully, NOBODY in their right mind uses an AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle to hunt mice and rats. Unless youre calling these children and victims of mass shootings vermin.
One, please source. TIA
Two, heres an EXPERTS first-hand perspective:
What I Saw Treating the Victims From Parkland Should Change the Debate on Guns
They werent the first mass-shooting victims the Florida radiologist sawbut their wounds were radically different.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/553937/
I was looking at a CT scan of one of the mass-shooting victims from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who had been brought to the trauma center during my call shift. The organ looked like an overripe melon smashed by a sledgehammer, and was bleeding extensively. How could a gunshot wound have caused this much damage?
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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 elasticmoving away from the bullet like waves of water displaced by the boatand 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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As a doctor, I feel I have a duty to inform the public of what I have learned as I have observed these wounds and cared for these patients. Its clear to me that AR-15 and other high-velocity weapons, especially when outfitted with a high-capacity magazine, have no place in a civilians gun cabinet. I have friends who own AR-15 rifles; they enjoy shooting them at target practice for sport and fervently defend their right to own them. But I cannot accept that their right to enjoy their hobby supersedes my right to send my own children to school, a movie theater, or a concert and to know that they are safe.
