New Delhi. Former US President Donald Trump had a near-death escape in a murderous attack during an election rally in western Pennsylvania on Saturday. The suspect has been identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks. The US Secret Service is investigating how a man with an AR-15 rifle entered the rally venue and was able to fire several bullets. It is said that if someone is hit by a bullet from an AR-15 rifle, it becomes impossible for him to survive. To know why this is said, you need to know about the AR-15 rifle.
The AR-15 rifle fires bullets at such a high speed that it can kill a person in a matter of seconds. The bullets fall with such a speed that they can blow apart a skull and destroy vital organs. “It can literally shatter bones, it can pulverize your liver and it can produce an impact equivalent to an explosion,” The Washington Post quoted Joseph Sakran, a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, as saying. “During one incident, during surgery on people killed by high-speed rounds, the victims’ body tissue broke off and fell into our hands,” he said.
The Washington Post told in one of its reports that why does a bullet fired from an AR-15 rifle cause so much destruction in the body? This .223-caliber bullet is used inside the AR-15. What makes the weapon so deadly is the speed of that bullet. It is small and light. Its cartridge has enough power to fire a bullet at such a speed that it can cross six football fields in one second.
Any bullet that hits a vital part of the body can cause instant death. The high speed of a bullet fired from an AR-15 causes much more damage after hitting the body and greatly reduces the person’s chances of survival. Trauma surgeon Babak Sarani said, “As soon as the speed of the bullet slows down, the energy released from it is so huge that it has to go somewhere else, and here your body will leave you.”
For example, if a bullet from an AR-15 hits someone’s chest, it explodes in the chest cavity. It destroys lung tissue, ruptures veins and arteries, causing massive bleeding and then the body collapses. The impact of an AR-15 bullet is so powerful that it creates an explosion. This explosion destroys the large veins that carry blood back to the heart.
If a 9mm bullet hits the body directly from the same distance, it causes much less damage than an AR-15 bullet. An AR-15 bullet leaves a deep wound behind, while a wound caused by a 9mm bullet fired from a handgun is much smaller. Due to immediate treatment and less bleeding, the victim has a chance to survive a 9mm bullet to the chest, but this is not the case with an AR-15. After being hit by an AR-15 bullet, the body starts bleeding rapidly, which soon becomes fatal and puts the person’s life in danger.
Tags: Donald Trump, Joe Biden
FIRST PUBLISHED : July 14, 2024, 16:58 IST
