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They want us to stay separate. Don’t do it. Lives depend on it.
“They” want you and I to stay separated by the polarizing views they thrust upon us. Every argument now is set up to have two sides — black and white. No grey. Yet we all know that real life is full of shades of grey and compromises. Life is messy, so are moral decisions.
I have noticed that the debate is already set up for us — Guns, for or against.
Give me a break! Guns are fine, legal rifles and handguns. Why can’t we focus on the TYPE of gun that has killed all these people since the ban on it was ALLOWED to expire in 2004 by President Bush? Automatic rifles like the AR-15, which was the weapon used recently in Uvalde, Texas.
The AR-15 assault rifle was engineered to create what one of its designers called “maximum wound effect.” Its tiny bullets — needle-nosed and weighing less than four grams — travel nearly three times the speed of sound. As the bullet strikes the body, the payload of kinetic energy rips open a cavity inside the flesh — essentially inert space — which collapses back on itself, destroying inelastic tissue, including nerves, blood vessels and vital organs. “It’s a perfect killing machine,” says Dr. Peter Rhee, a leading trauma surgeon and retired captain with 24 years of active-duty service in the Navy. — Rolling Stone All-American Killer article.
