

The victims’ DNA had to be matched with that of their heartbroken families. The county coroner attempted to identify the tiny bodies himself to spare their grieving parents from the horror. In all, 21 innocent people were killed that day – two teachers and 19 children. Lillian Liao, a pediatric trauma surgeon, who treated the casualties of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022. ‘It looks like a body part got blown up,’ said Dr.

Perhaps few can more bitterly attest to the utter devastation than the doctors whose emergency rooms are flooded by victims when AR-15s are put to evil use. For a victim shot with an AR-15 is quite literally eviscerated by the blast. It’s the AR-15’s high-velocity bullets that make this rifle so horrifyingly deadly. Which is what also makes it an absolute killing machine – and, possibly for that very reason, is a dismally regular theme in an epidemic of mass shootings. When customized with high-capacity magazines, its firepower can rival even military arms. It’s simple to shoot – it’s gentle recoil makes it easy to aim. Shorter than an average baseball bat, lighter than a bowling ball, the AR-15 rifle is America’s favorite semi-automatic rifle: 16 million US citizens, who own 22 million between them, can’t be wrong.
