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Doctors aren’t just speaking out in Texas. Take Dr. Joseph Sakran, who was hit by a stray bullet in the throat when he was 17 years old and living in Virginia. That night, Sakran and his friends left a football game and headed to a nearby park to hang out. A fight broke out, and someone fired a gun. The bullet struck Sakran, injuring his vocal cord and carotid artery.
Though the accident was “devastating,” Sakran chose to turn it into something positive, eventually becoming a trauma surgeon with Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. After the NRA posted that 2018 tweet, Sakran founded the viral Twitter campaign @ThisIsOurLane.
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