Stanford Doctors: It's Time To Ban All Semi-Automatic Firearms

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Stanford Doctors: It's Time To Ban All Semi-Automatic Firearms

Excerpt:

Teaching a Class on Gunshot Wounds
If doctors held a class on gunshot wounds, Spain said they would reiterate the following points:
• Bullets don't travel in a straight line once they enter the body. If the tip of the bullet explodes "it rips everything up. It’s pretty devastating,” said Spain.
• If there's one bullet hole it's impossible for doctors to know if it traveled up, down or side-to-side.
• Doctors have to guess which way they believe the bullet traveled.
* Doctors are facing enormous odds when they try to save a patient suffering from a gunshot wound.

Most notably, the doctors want people to know that semi-automatic firearms should not be in the hands of the average civilian:

And: semi-automatic weapons have no role in contemporary civilian life. For Winslow, the wounds conjure up painful memories of when, working in a front line hospital in a war zone, he was called to the morgue to pronounce death on casualties — coalition soldiers or American civilians — brought in from the field. He looked for dog tags, examined the remains and signed preliminary death certificates. He recalled the surgeon’s note that accompanied the body of a young U.S. Army captain, shot in the neck: “It was an honor to care for this brave American soldier. May God rest his soul.”

Two days after the mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Nov. 5, 2017, Winslow opined that it was “insane … that in the United States of America a civilian can go out and buy a semiautomatic weapon like an AR-15.” Nominated by President Trump for the post of assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, Winslow fell out of contention.

It's interesting that someone who was in the Military would advocate for a ban on semi-automatic firearms. Winslow must be someone who doesn't know the difference between a semi-automatic gun and a fully automatic firearm.

Well. the "role" of semi-autos is pretty much the same role as revolvers or muzzleloaders, for that matter. The practical difference is speed in reloading, not accuracy or lethal effect.

Also, couldn't doctors use imaging equipment to track bullet fragments?



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Do we get medical advice at a gun range?

Why should we get firearm advice from a Medical Doctor?

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The events were part of Scrubs Addressing the Firearms Epidemic (SAFE), a non-partisan action co-founded by Stanford’s Professor of Medicine Dr. Dean Winslow, a Republican, and fourth year medical student Sarabeth Spitzer, a Democrat. Winslow is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and flight surgeon who was deployed six times to Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Non-partisan"

Also, Air Force - that explains the firearm ignorance. Do zoomie surgeons even have to qualify with any weapon?