Four years ago, a year-old boy was wheeled into Dr. He had been shot in the abdomen. And on the way there, it had ripped through and injured all of the following organs: his intestine, his pancreas, his spleen, his stomach, his diaphragm and his lung.
Tissue in every one of these organs was damaged. Blood was leaking into his chest. A injury to the intestines can mean a colostomy bag for life. For a child, a hit to a growth plate can result in two limbs of permanently different lengths. If it hits your brain, you will be changed forever.
Elective surgeries are cleared to free operating rooms. Specialty surgeons are often called in. Amazingly, the patient was alert and speaking lucidly to the doctors. You can't assume anything, says Nair. Bullets can bounce, ricochet, and change vector under the skin. So, what can bystanders do when confronted with gun violence?
First, if possible, stop the bleeding. Swelling and discoloration are signs of hemorrhaging anyone can recognize. You can control hemorrhaging by applying manual pressure, or by fastening a tourniquet—improvised or commercial—high and tight on the limb.
What else is there to do? The answer is The lungs have no muscles. They expand due to negative pressure inside of the pleural cavity, which means any type of hole is bad. Perhaps, you'd reason, there are so few airborne bullets and so few people compared to the land area over which these bullets could land that deaths and injuries pretty much never occur.
According to a 1-year study conducted on stray bullets, 4. Although stray bullets most commonly cause injuries as a result of armed conflict involving In fact, celebratory gunfire is illegal in all 50 states across the country, and if someone is killed by that bullet, in many states you can be charged with a felony. This leads many to ask the obvious question, "If celebratory gunfire is illegal, then why are guns fired into the air at military funerals and events? Why do we have '21 gun salutes' if this is so dangerous?
Unfortunately, most celebratory gunfire that occurs in communities uses live ammunition, which is what results in these potentially lethal consequences. A bullet fired up into the air doesn't cease to be dangerous because it's out of sight; typically between 20 and 90 seconds later but up to two full minutes later , it will eventually come down.
A gun salute, where 7 guns are fired three times apiece, pose no danger to bystanders only In any region where the bullets could come down and land on a human, this would have the potential to injure or even kill others. The most dangerous conditions for celebratory gunfire occur in urban areas with a high population density, when large crowds are outside late at night: the night of July 4th and New Years Eve are typically the peaks of stray bullet injuries from this cause.
Dense, small bullets will achieve higher terminal velocities than lighter, larger bullets, making them more dangerous. At high altitudes, there's less air resistance, meaning that stray bullets will carry more kinetic energy and pose a higher risk of death than at low altitudes. The behavior that is riskiest to others, though, is firing a bullet at an angle into the air, rather than straight up.
Bullets that are fired very close to perfectly vertical will lose the most speed; those that are at an angle can maintain velocities that ensure they will puncture skin, regardless of where or whom they hit. If a bullet is capable of puncturing your skin, it can then go on to do a tremendous amount of Although celebratory gunfire continues to be an unnecessary cause of injury and death in the United States and across the world, there are a number of positive aspects to focus on.
A CDC report in noted that celebratory gunfire in Puerto Rico killed 2 and injured 25 on an annual basis; since , campaigns to reduce that number have successfully eliminated New Years deaths from stray bullets.
Raising awareness works. Firing a gun into the air creates a potential hazard for anyone within a two mile radius of the person firing the gun, and the danger will not subside until a full two minutes have passed since the final gunshot.
An incident like this is rare and the news has stunned the film industry. The use of firearms on set is subject to stringent safety standards.
Despite sounding innocuous, both prop guns and blanks can be dangerous. Here's what we know about them. Blanks are used in the film industry to imitate live ammunition. The reason they are so convincing is that blanks are essentially modified real bullets. While the term "bullet" is commonly used to describe what is loaded into weapons, more properly it is a cartridge that is loaded: a self-contained ammunition package made up of a casing holding an explosive powder that when fired, blasts out a projectile, or bullet.
Blanks differ because although they use explosive they don't use a projectile. However the wadding materials which are used to keep the gunpower in place can be expelled from the gun when it is fired, potentially causing injury or even death at close range.
A prop gun could mean a range of items, from non-functioning weapons to cap guns. But it can also mean a real weapon, or one adapted for firing blanks. Together they add authenticity to productions - fire a blank using a prop gun and you'll get a loud bang, a recoil and what's known as a muzzle flash, the visible light created by the combustion of the powder.
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