What Bullets Doto Bodies x x x By Jason Fagone x x x The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront every day. We get names, places, anguished Facebook posts, wonky articles full of statistics on crime rates and risk, Twitter arguments about the Second Amendment—everything except the blood, the pictures of bodies torn by bullets. Even though Amy Goldberg has been treating gun patients for 30 years, the sense of horror has never completely gone away. The surgeons used to see .22-caliber bullets from little handguns, Saturday night specials, whereas now they see .40-caliber and 9 mm bullets. But there’s nothing that can prepare you for what bullets do to human bodies.

Source: Huffington Post April 26, 2017 07:52 UTC