Routine handgun injuries leave entry and exit wounds and linear tracks through the victim's body that are roughly the size of the bullet. If the bullet does not directly hit something crucial like the heart or the aorta, and they do not bleed to death before being transported to our care at a trauma center, chances are, we can save the victim. The bullets fired by an AR-15 are different; they travel at higher velocity and are far more lethal. The damage they cause is a function of the energy they impart as they pass through the body. A typical AR-15 bullet leaves the barrel traveling almost three times faster than, and imparting more than three times the energy of, a typical 9mm bullet from a handgun.
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 travelling 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.
With an AR-15, the shooter does not have to be particularly accurate. The victim does not have to be unlucky.
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3. "I haven't read the full article" In response to Reply # 0
but based on that included section there, the AR-15 doesn't sound conducive to hunting at all since it sounds as if the meat would be ruined by just a single bullet.
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8. ""Well the Founding Fathers gave us the 2nd amendment...."" In response to Reply # 0
"blah... blah... blah..."
I hate that we even have to discuss this... I hate that I know plenty of people who felt the need to go buy an AR-15 in the past couple years because "the government is trying to take all of our guns..." I hate Fox News' Founding Fathers argument... The 2nd amendment wasn't written with AR-15s in mind...
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11. "Four times in the past decade, a federal appeals court has ruled that a ..." In response to Reply # 8
Four times in the past decade, a federal appeals court has ruled that a ban on assault weapons was permissible under the Second Amendment. In fact, no federal appeals court has ever held that assault weapons are protected.
what's key to even notice is that, in this acted out scenario, the shooter didn't even hit the guy which wasn't uncommon with muskets even from that distance if the musket didn't have rifling in the barrel.
13. "The same with literally every centerfire rifle, period." In response to Reply # 0 Thu Feb-22-18 02:42 PM by flipnile
A .308 or 7.62x39 both are much more powerful than .223/556. Brown, wood stocked rifles are usually chambered for these tho, so they aren't as "scary" I guess.
24. "Isn't "education" a big part of civilization?" In response to Reply # 16 Thu Feb-22-18 04:31 PM by flipnile
Or nah?
No snark at you bruh. I'm talking about people that are passionate about gun control actually educating themselves about what it is they seek to control. Once one actually understands how firearms work, it becomes clear what can and can't effectively be "banned."
One major reason is that it's hard to take uninformed opinions seriously. Saying something like "ban assault weapons" falls flat because assault weapons have been banned in the US since WW2 or so.
17. "RE: When those little kids got killed" In response to Reply # 15
Noah Pozner, 6, was one of the 20 child victims in the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14. All the dead were shot between three and 11 times. Tiny Noah took 11 bullets. His mother, Veronique, insisted on an open coffin, Naomi Zeveloff reported in the Jewish Daily Forward.
You’ll probably remember Noah. He was a happy little guy with beautiful heavily lashed eyes and a cheerful smile. In his coffin, there was a cloth placed over the lower part of his face.
“There was no mouth left,” his mother told the Forward. “His jaw was blown away.”
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