For those who seriously think an AR-15 should be legal on the streets of America, please take a few minutes and read this account from Heather Sher. She’s a radiologist in South Florida and was one of the attending physicians for victims of the Parkland massacre.
She has seen things we hope she never sees again. But as long as assault rifles are available, wounds like those she encountered on children from Parkland will, unfortunately, continue to appear in emergency rooms. She wrote about her experience on Valentine’s Day.
“One of the trauma surgeons opened a young victim in the operating room, and found only shreds of the organ that had been hit by a bullet from an AR-15, a semi-automatic rifle which delivers a devastatingly lethal, high-velocity bullet to the victim. There was nothing left to repair, and utterly, devastatingly, nothing that could be done to fix the problem. The injury was fatal.”
It is important to understand the difference between gunshot wounds from handguns and those from assault rifles. Victims of assault rifles stand little chance for survival. So why are they available to 18-year-olds? Or why are they available at all? As Dr. Sher so eloquently states:
“While there may be no consensus on many questions of gun control, there seems to be broad support for removing high-velocity, lethal weaponry and high-capacity magazines from the market, which would drastically reduce the incidence of mass murders. Every constitutionally guaranteed right that we are blessed to enjoy comes with responsibilities. Even our right to free speech is not limitless. Second Amendment gun rights must respect the same boundaries.
Please take the time to read this remarkable story from The Atlantic.