But I'll tell you what's obscene. Children blown apart with an AR-15. There is NOTHING more obscene than that.
My niece attends Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. She is 15. She knew every single one of the dead children. They were her friends. She has known some of them for years. They were in her classes, some in multiple classes.
The shooter knew exactly what building he was targeting. It's known on campus as The Freshman Building because that is where the bulk of their classes are held.
When SWAT came to escort her class outside, these children had to walk past bodies in pools of blood, pieces of bodies splashed around, brains and intestinal organs splattered on the walls. Something that did not make it in most of the news reports is this: the shooter aimed for peoples faces.
Does anyone out there know what an AR-15 does to the human body ? Some of you military folks know this first hand. When a bullet exits the rifle barrel, it does so at 400% the energy of the most powerful handgun on earth. With that much energy enveloping the round, it sets up with it a shock wave of pure energy. When that shock wave hits soft tissue, it obliterates it. It's not a clean through-and-through, unless you're hit in an extremity. If the round hits bone, it pulverizes it to powder. Organs look like they've been through a blender. Trauma surgeons will tell you that nothing can repair that kind of damage. You cannot get to the hospital fast enough.
THIS is what my niece had to see on her way out of the building. She's 15. Or she was. She will NEVER be the same sweet, bubbly, open, free little girl she was. She has had her innocence stolen and her childhood ripped away from her. All of the children have been dealt the same obscenity.
I'm sorry to have been so graphic, but my anger seethes over and the tears of hot rage splash down my cheeks, uncontrollable, every time I hear some NRA gun-whore defend the right to own a militarized weapon of war. No civilian "needs" an assault weapon. It is not a hunting rifle, unless you're hunting human beings. Like children.
So, FUCK THE NRA. You can tell me it's obscene, but my niece knows what real obscenity looks like in every one of the night terrors that visit her. She's only 15 . . .
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