Guns Don't Kill People
Guns don’t kill people
Guns don’t kill people
people kill people with guns
it’s their constitutional right to own
the more the merrier
there’s little barrier to lethality
that’s the reality
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The advantage that a small or light bullet has over a heavy one when it
comes to wound ballistics, is that it tumbles once it hits flesh. Bullets
are stabilized to fly through the air, and not through water, or a
body, which is approximately the same density as water. Bullets, like the .223 Rem fired by the AR-15, are
stable as long as they are in the air. When they hit something, like a child, they
immediately go unstable. This
is what makes a small bullet so lethal in wound ballistics.____________________________________________
Heather Sher, a radiologist in one of the busiest trauma centers in the United States for 13 years, wrote this in a 2018 Atlantic article:
"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?"
"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."
Thoughts and prayers.
