police revealing new details
about the moments before the
shooter left home to carry out
the deadly rampage that killed
39 year Olds and three adults.
She had a red bag. They asked
her what was in the red bag, and
I think she gets dismissed it
because it was a motherly thing
, and I didn't look in the back
because at the time she didn't
know that her daughter had any
weapons and didn't think any
differently. We know among the
weapons the shooter was carrying
was an ar 15 rifle, which has
been the weapon of choice for
mass shooters in the united
States. In fact, there have been
96 mash shootings committed with
ar 15 specifically over the past
10 years, according to the gun
violence archive that includes
you, volley, parkland, Buffalo,
Las Vegas and Newtown,
Connecticut. Outfront now, Dr
Lillian Lee out, pediatric
trauma surgeon in Texas who
treated patients from the
shooting. And you've Ali were 19
elementary school students and
two teachers were killed. And Dr
Leo, I appreciate your time
tonight. Um, obviously, it's
unfortunate to have to even be
speaking to you about this
topic. But here we are,
unfortunately again, and many
people are hearing about R
fifteens again and the injuries
from these are 15 is the reason
these days rampages are so
deadly is because of how deadly
these weapons are compared to
other guns. We have an animation
doctor that I want to show you
that the Washington post put
together it shows the trajectory
of a 2 23 caliber sized round
fired from an a R 15. And the
bullet enters the body and then
burst into the chest cavity. Can
you just explain for our viewers
what this rifle actually does to
the human body? Sure um, you
know, these, um high velocity
firearm injuries such as the ar
15 that you're showing creates
devastating wounds. Um big body
cavities, um, are seen if the
victim makes it to the trauma
center alive. And really, most
patients have no time. Um to, um
bleed, you can bleed to death
and as little as five minutes,
and so, with the type of wound
that's created, most people will
not make it to a hospital, let
alone at trauma center. Alive
those that do have large, gaping
holes in their body were missing
areas that. What we would call
muscle. Um what people would
call bone does things are
missing? Um skin and fat. All of
that is missing. Some body parts
are not recognizable. Um, I. In
part of a very sophisticated
regional trauma system that
unfortunately cared for victims
from two mass shootings and from
the first mass shooting in
Sutherland springs. We really
learned about how we can save
more lives from high velocity
firearm injuries. By looking
back at the patients that we did
not receive and how we could
help them. Slow down there
bleeding. Help them. We feel the
tank because you only have so
much blood in the human body,
and if we could refill that tank
before they get to a hospital.
Then there's a potential to save
those lives and we talk about
assault weapons in this country
and just I just want to put I
mean as gruesome and horrible as
this conversation is, it's
needed to inform the political
conversation. So when you talk
about a R 15, there's another
animation. The Washington post
has. It just simply shows the
differences and exit wounds
between an ar 15 and a smaller
nine millimeter. So the small,
isolated hole from a nine
millimeter bullet fired by a
handgun in blue and then in
Orange that's the gaping exit
wound from the air 15. Uh the
difference here is very stark.
So when you talk about the type
of weapon used, it sounds like
you're just saying clearly from
a medical perspective to state
the obvious there's a huge
difference. There. There's
absolutely a huge difference and
the tissue destruction from
these are 15 type. Firearms is
completely different than a
regular handgun. Um we have to
take these patients who actually
make it to the hospital alive
multiple times to the operating
room to clean up tissue that
continues to die off over the
course of the next week to two
weeks before we can even begin
any kind of reconstruction of
the body parts. Alright actually
all thank you very much. Um,
that's hard to listen to but