your human body when they shoo you could leave a hole, maybe foot in diameter in the exit wound. these are weapons of war they have no other purpose other than mass murder so, we would ban them as w attempted to do and did in 199 when we were in congress then the republicans - and as a result, the mass murder rate went up. it is time, and we re passin that bill. two other important bills woul require a safety trainin before you buy a firearm, an half a tenth a waiting period. so when someone goes out and buys again and takes their life, or goes out and shoot some o their angry about, and also bill that will hold th manufacture of the industr liable as they should. three important bills, three common sense bills, three step to a safer america in washington state. the measure does not get ri of guns are out there already. if you already have one it s the future purchase of guns, and by the way, not goin to solve all the world s problems but when you are in a hole you stop digging
also displace a lot of the other tissue so as the bullet passes through, any type of body soft tissue there is basically cavity of air that is around the bulle itself the destructive capacity as th bullet begins to tumble an fragment into multiple piece is pretty profound sometimes you see a smal bullet hole, for a smaller hol that is the insurance wound, but the exit wound i significantly larger and with great deal of damage the washington post did a nice job of that animation to try t explain exactly what s happening. doctor, you wrote a piece for time magazine last yea right after the uvalde schoo shooting in june of 2022 in the piece you say, quote, i people could only see what m colleagues and i see in thos trauma bays across our country i believe that their politic of extremism would give way to
everyone in the line of fire, even if they are standing on the other side of a wall. in a 1962 defense department analysis of the weapon for use by the united states army, it said if the weapon has, quote, excellent killing or stopping power. that same defense department report concluded a description of what happened when the ar-15, then called on him 16, was used in combat in vietnam at a distance of 50 yards. quote, one man was shot in the head. it looked like it exploded. a second man was hit in the chest. he is back was one big hole. that s because the bullet from an ar-15 creates an ever expanding cavity wound as it passes through the body. the entrance wound from an ar-15 is always much smaller than the exit wound. and every one of those
an ar-15 creates an ever expanding cavity wound as it passes through the body. the entrance wound from an ar-15 is always much smaller than the exit wound. and every one of those terrified texas police officers who showed up and that elementary school knew that about the ar-15. in an interview one of those officers said, the way he was shooting, he was probably going to take all of us out. none of those officers were embarrassed by how afraid they were. and they should be. some of them are no doubt embarrassed by the failure to act despite their fear, but the fear itself is nothing to be ashamed of. there is no other rational feeling to have in the presence of a loaded ar-15. the radio traffic that day was