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What I Saw Treating the Victims From Parkland Should Change the Debate on Guns

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• Slansitartop 9y ago
  > I have seen a handful of AR-15 injuries in my career. I saw one from a man shot in the back by a SWAT team years ago. If the AR-15 causes a problematic amount of damage for a gun, then SWAT teams should be banned from using them. While they're at it, they shouldn't be shooting people in the back either.
• drallison 9y ago
  The author here, Heather Sher, is a radiologist with trauma experience. Her point is that AR-15 weapons use high velocity bullets whose impact causes extraordinary damage when compared other weapons. AR-15 weapons with large magazines can inflict enormous damage. She argues that the ban on assault weapons should be reinstated (it did mitigate shootings) and that the ban on studying gun violence as a health issue should be rescinded. Small asks in the light of the trauma she observes they have caused. I agree, but I think we need to go further. As for Slansitartop somewhat snarky comment, I agree that we should consider banning SWAT teams use of AR-15 assault rifles. In fact, I believe we should disarm police in general and only allow the use of weapons in special circumstances.