[roarcher]

Firearms are designed to kill, lethality is kind of the point. A 9mm does literally every single thing they describe as being part of this "blast effect" (which is not a term in ballistics), and so does pretty much every other cartridge.

Well, except for the things that no bullet does:

> News accounts rely on antiseptic descriptions from law enforcement officials and medical examiners who, in some cases, have said remains were so unrecognizable that they could be identified only through DNA samples.

Color me skeptical. I've been up close and personal with bodies shot multiple times by 5.56mm, .50 BMG, and some things in between. In no case were the remains identifiable "only through DNA samples" or remotely close to that state. Nobody is disputing that an AR-15 kills. What's the point (other than propaganda) of pretending that it also turns a person into beef stew?

Yes, guns are for killing. Do you want your government to be the only entity that has them? Yes? Now imagine it's a terrible authoritarian government, because someday it will be.