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What can an AR-15 do to the human body? A trauma surgeon explains.
By Laura Ramirez-Feldman and Kate Murphy

A wave of mass shootings has shaken the country in recent weeks. One in particular — the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 children and two teachers dead — became one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history and has sparked an increase in calls for stricter gun control measures across the country.

As was the case in many other high-profile mass shootings in recent U.S. history, such as the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, the 2017 Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shooting and the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., the Uvalde gunman used an AR-15-style rifle to carry out the crime.

An AR-15 or similar rifles are semiautomatic, military-style weapons that can fire at least 30 rounds, the number of bullets a magazine typically carries, according to NPR. The term semiautomatic means that the shooter must pull the trigger to fire each shot, as opposed to an automatic weapon, which continues to fire for as long as the shooter holds down the trigger. Fully automatic weapons were heavily restricted for civilians in the United States in 1986, when Congress passed the Firearm Owners’ Protection Act.

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Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Thursday, June 9th 2022 at 9:40PM
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No 18 year old person should be given a license to own this weapon.

Friday, June 10th 2022 at 6:53PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

Why did the U.S. Army switch from the M14 to the M16 Ron? Is it because the M16 is more deadly?

Sunday, June 12th 2022 at 12:24AM
Steve Williams

the M16 was still considered more effective than the M14, with the US Army going so far as to say it was the best rifle for fighting in Vietnam and your point is?

Sunday, June 12th 2022 at 12:57AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

The M14 does much more damage than the M16. Here's another question Ron: What is a military style rifle?

Sunday, June 12th 2022 at 1:34AM
Steve Williams

If you joined the military to protect and serve your country in any of the four Branches of the military service like I did and millions of others Americans both black, brown, and white men and women, you would know your weapon.
Steve, I remember you saying that you was proud to be a Proud Boy and their motto is to make America white again, when was America in its history was ever all white?

Will making the AR-15 and making it available to young 18 year old untrained white boys make America great again?

Will let me tell you what have made American great in the pass and has continued to work to this ever day. When I turned 18 And graduated out of high school, I joined the military, like millions of men and women across this great nation, so that our Future can live any free nation and the M-16 was the weapon of choice back then.

When we turned 18, we did not go and shoot up a School of third and fourth graders and the adults said that was something that we would have to learn to live with like you did. We joined the military because we knew, we had to serve a greater purpose and that is what makes this country The greatest on earth and I glad to have been of service.

The M-16 was the weapon I trained on and the weapon I know best at that time, do you understand me?

Sunday, June 12th 2022 at 6:43AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

Ron, since you are a veteran, you may have heard of things like the M1A, Camp Perry, the Civilian Marksmanship Program, and the Springfield M1A Match.

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Sunday, June 12th 2022 at 7:35AM
Steve Williams

What can an AR-15 do to the human body? A trauma surgeon explains.

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Posted By: Deacon Ron Gray
Thursday, June 9th 2022 at 9:40PM
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Before deaCON comments and thoughts on deaCON SUBECT get OFF SUBJECT

..May I add a comment to deaCON PASTE?

"What can an AR-15 do to the human MIND? .. A trauma Psychologist might agree..

..Many years I have gone hunting with my neighbors..and as they view with awe what my

sons and I use for hunting in the woods..my neighbors and others know not to bother me...

Sunday, June 12th 2022 at 9:27AM
robert powell

I agree. Mr. Robert Powell, I never had an AR-15 in my hands but I do know personly what an M-16 can do to the human body and if an AR-15 can do half the damage of an M-16 can do to the human body, the weapon should not be in the hands of an untrained 18-year-old high school boy who wants to shoot up a school full of third and fourth graders. That weapon was designed to decimate the enemy quickly, so our U.S. troops can come home to their families.

Sunday, June 12th 2022 at 10:27AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

PLEASE deaCON.

..VIETNAM saw my 18 year old Friends go to WAR to decimate unjustly freedom fighters

..VIETNAMESE men/women fought the COLONIAL powers that NEVER mentioned Democracy

Sunday, June 12th 2022 at 1:06PM
robert powell

Did we not see a school full of third and fourth graders get decimated by a military style AR-15 weapon that should not have been in the hands of an untrained 18-year-old high school boy who wants to shoot up a school full of third and fourth graders?

or

The week before that we witness another 18 year old boy who drove over 200 miles to decimate Black people in a grocery store with that same style of weapon? In both cases the young 18 year old boy's NEVER mentioned Democracy?

It could have been you, minding your own business when that happened in the land of the free.

Sunday, June 12th 2022 at 1:53PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.