The Grisly Destruction of Assault Rifles; Wounds With No Repair

Dr. Patricia Farrell
5 min readJun 5, 2022

Emergency room surgeons tell us that once someone is shot in the core, hope is gone because there is nothing left to repair. Info on the bullets in a link at the end of this article.

Photo by Dominik Sostmann on Unsplash

Names of places we would never know, never visit, and probably in the whole of our life even know existed sit in a repository in all of our brains, a special place of photo shoots of hell. Whether you’re religious or not, if you believe in one God, none or many, this little area in your brain sits there holding, as though precious, the names, the stories, and the horrors perpetrated at schools by people with assault rifles.

These weren’t special schools; they were schools for kids who lived in our neighborhoods, delivered our newspapers, and dug sandcastles on our beaches. This was the generation we looked forward to watching mature into wonderful, loving adults. But all that ended one day when someone went into a store or a gun show and selected a lethal weapon, an assault rifle with extra cartridge containers. Yes, they were hunters, but hunters of children, not wild animals or enemies on the field of battle.

No parent group wants to see these images, especially the latest 19 from the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas because they’re too disturbing. A pediatrician who delivered many of the children said…

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Dr. Patricia Farrell
Dr. Patricia Farrell

Written by Dr. Patricia Farrell

Dr. Farrell is a psychologist, consultant, author, and member of SAG/AFTRA, interested in flash fiction writing (http://bitly.ws/S94e) and health.

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