Commentary: As an ER doctor, I saw how often guns kill. Don't put them under your Christmas tree
by Steven Sainsbury, Los Angeles Times
Dec 20, 2019
2 minutes
During my emergency medicine internship in the Midwest, one of my first patients was a 4-year-old boy with a gunshot wound. The bullet came from his father's .357 magnum, which the youngster had found. As he played with the gun, he accidentally shot himself in the upper thigh.
The bullet's kinetic energy was so powerful in his tiny body, that despite being shot in the
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