Posted on 02/15/2018 10:37:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
I am a trauma surgeon, and I've seen what AR-15s can do. There's no reason for civilians to own them.
An assault rifle is designed to deliver fatal wounds to multiple individuals within a short time period; it has no other purpose. The AR-15, the civilian version of the military assault rifle (M16 or M4), has become the most commonly used rifle in US mass shootings; the recent shootings in Parkland and Las Vegas, for instance, testify to the effectiveness of this weapon’s design. It was made for the military, to allow members of the armed forces to better dispatch multiple enemies in short order; in the hands of civilians, it not only clearly serves the same purpose for some individuals, but it’s unclear what other purpose it could serve, given how and why it was made.
Given that, there is no reason that these weapons should be broadly available to the civilian population. But, given that they are, let’s all understand how they are designed to kill people, not simply to shoot targets for fun.
As a trauma surgeon for 40 years (and avid hunter for much longer), I am dismayed that we remain paralyzed over preventive measures. There have already been 18 school shootings in 2018, when one would be too many: This cannot remain a political issue when it is clearly an issue of common sense.
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How did Cruz get taken so unharmed ?
Doctors kill many times more people than all AR-15s combined every single year.
This guy is giving Elmer Fudd a run for the money for most ignorant fool known to the public.
Listen up space cadet.
NONE OF THE GUN LAWS WE HAVE ON THE BOOKS TODAY, HAVE STOPPED CRIMINALS FROM VIOLATING THEM TO KILL.
Therefore more gun laws ARE NOT the answer.
We need to take a long hard look at our society, and figure out whey these people are killing. Only then, will these gun deaths go down.
Pull your head out of your ass and address the real problem here.
preventative measures ...
I read of an incident in Viet Nam, where a Medivac chopper carried ammo to surrounded troops, when they were running out, as one of his return trips while evacuating the wounded.
He was called on the carpet - what were you doing?
I was practicing Preventative Medicine, Sir.
....this is an old rerun story the reporter just drug up to account for his existence
The efficiency is why I kept one for so long as my home defense tool. But the AK74 is slightly superior to it in CQB. Round tumbles more effectively/readily. Its a shreddah
yep
Think of it like someone tweeting about a train wreck before it happens.
Or give all school children armor vests.
Dr. Ernest E. Moore:
“Ernest, you ignorant slut...”
How many outright lies and false and misleading innuendo did you cram into the short piece of excrement that you wrote?
First do no harm? - well, you certainly blew that one...
Please either educate yourself or keep your hate-filled pie-hole shut, for the good of humanity...
Been hunting with 30-30s 3006, 45-70, 12 Gauge slugs. Wow! They make so much bigger nastier holes than the 5.56. Though the 5.56. An really tear you up. This is what they’re designed to do
But what is this doctor thinking? They’re not supposed to be used against people except in self defense or in time of war. Any other uses are criminal and the criminals need to be identified and stopped. In the 60s and before this guy would have been in a state asylum. The Marxists backed freeing of dangerous psychotic people. It is all part of their plan to destroy capitalist culture.
This is all a Saul Alinsky plan to destroy America. A convoluted plan toward Marxism
False flag?
Is that why police carry them?
That struck me too. 18 this year alone??? Really?? Have there been fatalities in the others? Or did the media ignore those others , due to the need to push Russian collusion with Trump??
It's the most popular rifle in America & no surprise that some (very few) end up being wrongly used. Estimates are there may be 4 to 5 million or more in use. Who is going to go around and confiscate all of them??
OOPS!! wrong post.
“An assault rifle is designed to deliver fatal wounds to multiple individuals within a short time period; it has no other purpose.”
Nonsesne. The purpose of the 5.56 was to severely wound the enemy, thinking a wounded combattent was more of a burdon than a dead one. Anyway, that’s what my dad said and he was 30 year Army.
Check my post 38 to myself after some research.
They will count every shooting within a school gun-free zone, regardless of whether or not it is actually on school property or has anything to do with anyone from the school.
It’s an emotional time when these mass shootings occur. Everyone has an opinion and this guy is entitled to his but he misses the point of the second amendment. But that’s for another day.
The solution to minimize these kinds of shootings is to eliminate gun free zones, allow law abiding people to carry weapons, protect schools with armed security and teachers, and keep mentally ill people from obtaining weapons, which is a slippery slope.
Even with those measures madmen are going to kill people. We have to do more to allow good people to take action to minimize loss of life.
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