I have to wonder if those defending their right to own an AR-15 or other AR weapon have been willing to look at the pictures and read the words of survivors and first responders in the WaPo article. Even if they only use their AR weapon at the firing range, I would hope that anyone who owns one is courageous enough to view the damage they cause to innocent victims of mass shootings.
JMO
In another article from WaPo’s series, we see a 3-D animation of the damage caused to the human body by an AR-15 compared to a typical handgun. There is no comparison. Read it and weep.
Quoting from the link:
The AR-15 fires bullets at such a high velocity — often in a barrage of 30 or even 100 in rapid succession — that it can eviscerate multiple people in seconds. A single bullet lands with a shock wave intense enough to blow apart a skull and demolish vital organs. The impact is even more acute on the compact body of a small child.
“It literally can pulverize bones, it can shatter your liver and it can provide this blast effect,” said Joseph Sakran, a gunshot survivor who advocates for gun violence prevention and a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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The first part of this report is a 3D animation that shows the trajectory of two different hypothetical gunshots to the chest — one from an AR-15 and another from a typical handgun — to explain the greater severity of the damage caused by the AR-15.
The second part depicts the entrance and exit wounds of two actual victims — Noah Pozner, 6, [Newtown CT] and Peter Wang, 15 [Parkland FL] —killed in school shootings when they were struck by multiple bullets.
This account is based on a review of nearly 100 autopsy reports from several AR-15 shootings as well as court testimony and interviews with trauma surgeons, ballistics experts and a medical examiner.
The records and interviews show in stark detail the unique mechanics that propel these bullets — and why they unleash such devastation in the body.
