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YorkRd

(326 posts)
Tue Jun 7, 2022, 11:25 AM Jun 2022

Warning! Graphic CT scan (X-Ray) pictures of what it looks like to get shot in the head with an AR15

I hope this isn't too much. Many people say we should see the results of these shootings. These pictures are might be enough.


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Warning! Graphic CT scan (X-Ray) pictures of what it looks like to get shot in the head with an AR15 (Original Post) YorkRd Jun 2022 OP
Yep. That shooter really protected himself from government tyranny. Aristus Jun 2022 #1
Need to have this blown-up on a large display packman Jun 2022 #2
That is...not a CT scan. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2022 #3
Looks like a 3d computer model DetroitLegalBeagle Jun 2022 #4
CT was my profession for many years... This image is a 3d reconstruction of a CT scan.. mitch96 Jun 2022 #5
this seems like a good compromise between showing what a gun does and victims' privacy renate Jun 2022 #6
nobody NEEDS a ak. pansypoo53219 Jun 2022 #7
 

packman

(16,296 posts)
2. Need to have this blown-up on a large display
Tue Jun 7, 2022, 11:38 AM
Jun 2022

and shown in Congress as they debate(if ever) gun control - Hell, the Repukes show aborted fetuses during anti-abortion hearing.

DetroitLegalBeagle

(1,914 posts)
4. Looks like a 3d computer model
Tue Jun 7, 2022, 11:52 AM
Jun 2022

Also, that damage isn't unique to AR15's. All rifles have devastating effects on the human body. I've seen firsthand the end result of a headshot from a USMC DMR(basically a M14 that some of you older vets might be familiar with), which is shoots the equivalent to a .308, a popular hunting cartridge. There wasn't much of a recognizable head left. It looked more like a vaguely U shaped cantaloupe. The danger of the AR15 isn't specifically the lethality of the bullets it fires, its the combination of the rate of fire, magazine capacity, ease of use, and widespread availability, as well as the fact that it's a rifle and shoots rifle rounds.

mitch96

(13,869 posts)
5. CT was my profession for many years... This image is a 3d reconstruction of a CT scan..
Tue Jun 7, 2022, 04:09 PM
Jun 2022

This is what a normal CT 3d head/face look like..
The 5.56 bullet does a huge amount of damage.
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renate

(13,776 posts)
6. this seems like a good compromise between showing what a gun does and victims' privacy
Tue Jun 7, 2022, 04:45 PM
Jun 2022

I know that (because I can't let my mind go to what it's really like) when I imagine a school shooting, I imagine a movie. Pew pew pew pew pew... people drop and die instantly and quietly, each with a single, tiny entrance wound (and we never see the exit wound).

I don't imagine the screaming, I don't imagine the bleeding out, I don't imagine the sobs slowly fading to silence... and I definitely don't, I can't, imagine the shattering of bones. I suspect that a lot of people who think school shootings are the price of gun "rights" don't imagine those things either, unless they're literally psychopaths (and I'm sure many are).

Pictures like these are a way to make the damage real without making people turn away.

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