Ballistics tests show how lethal a wound from an AR-15 style rifle can be. Now there's a campaign to teach civilians how to be first responders in mass shootings.
A Texas elementary school, a Buffalo supermarket, a Pittsburgh synagogue, a Boulder supermarket, a Florida high school, a Texas church, a Las Vegas concert, a Connecticut elementary school. These are the locations of some of the deadliest mass shootings in America in recent history, and they all have something in common: The style of weapon used at each horrific scene was the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.
To get a perspective on how an AR-15 bullet differs from a 9-millimeter bullet, the 60 Minutes team spoke to Don Deyo, a former paramedic and Green Beret who witnessed mass casualties up close on the battlefield. He demonstrated the difference in bullets by shooting rounds into a cut of pork that's similar in size to an average adult human thigh. At first glance, the two rounds looked similar, both leaving an entry wound that's nothing more than a tiny hole in the flesh.
"There's going to be a lot more damage to the tissues, both bones, organs, whatever gets kind of even near this bullet path," Bir tells Pelley."The bones aren't going to just break; they're going to shatter. Organs aren't just going to tear or have bruises on them … parts of them are going to be destroyed.
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