The horrific injuries of those who survived the Las Vegas shooting. Guns don't just kill. Update!

(Warning this video can be quite disturbing, prepare yourself to be upset by what you will see.)

Courtesy of Yahoo News:

Rachel Sheppard's scar runs from her chest to below her waist. 

"When I see it, it's just a constant reminder," she says. The 27-year-old is one of nearly 500 people recovering after she was shot in last October's Las Vegas massacre that left 58 concertgoers dead. 

Natalie Grumet felt her jaw explode. 

"I was shot in the face," she said. 

Chelsea Romo was shot in the eye. 

"My vision was taken right away," she said. She was in the front row at the Route 91 Harvest Festival outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino when the shooting began. "My girlfriend said, 'Duck.' At this point, I was holding my face and she said, 'Chelsea, your face.' And I said, 'Oh no, I can't see.'" 

At first, she was completely blind, but surgeons were able to save one of her eyes by removing pieces of shrapnel. 

When I was a boy I was brought to see the body of a friend who had been shot by a shotgun through a door.

It was supposed to shock me into volunteering who might have shot the boy, but I didn't know so the only thing it succeeded in doing is shocking me into realizing that guns in television westerns, which only knocked the actors bloodlessly to the ground, and the ones in real life, which tore flesh to pieces and turned human beings into hamburger, were in no way the same things.

That image has haunted me my entire life, and after seeing these images from Inside Edition my nightmares have even more fuel with which to wake me in a cold sweat each night.

But it is still something that all of us should recognize.

Guns are designed to tear people's bodies up, and damage them enough to snuff out their life.

Guns are not made to shoot paper targets or to serve as a force field to magically protect us from harm.

When Todd Palin pointed that gun at Track, he was threatening to tear his body to shreds and possibly kill him. Just let that sink in for a second.

Rational people do not want instruments of death and bodily destruction in the hands of more people walking around our streets.

Because even when they are not purposefully seeking to do harm, harm can be done.

Courtesy of the LA Times: 

A 12-year-old girl was booked on suspicion of negligent discharge of a firearm Thursday after a shooting at Sal Castro Middle School left four students injured, authorities said. 

Los Angeles police do not believe that the shooting was intentional, spokesman Josh Rubenstein said Thursday evening. 

"At this time, the information suggests that this was an isolated incident, involving the negligent discharge of a firearm, where innocent children and a staff member were unfortunately injured," the LAPD said in a statement. 

I wonder how badly those children's bodies are damaged.

Perhaps those still fresh wounds should be broadcast on national TV as well. So that people can really see what the 2nd Amendment means in everyday life. 

Update: The man who sold the Las Vegas shooter armor piercing bullets has been arrested.

There is no reason in the world that everyday citizens should have access to armor piercing bullets.

None.

George W. Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a fundraiser to benefit veterans maimed in the wars that he started.

Courtesy of ABC News:  

Former President George W. Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a charity fundraiser for U.S. military veterans severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, and former First Lady Laura Bush collected $50,000 to appear a year earlier, officials of the Texas-based Helping a Hero charity confirmed to ABC News. 

The former President was also provided with a private jet to travel to Houston at a cost of $20,000, the officials said. 

The charity, which helps to provide specially-adapted homes for veterans who lost limbs and suffered other severe injuries in “the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said the total $170,000 expenditure was justified because the former President and First Lady offered discounted fees and helped raise record amounts in contributions at galas held in 2011 and 2012. 

“It was great because he reduced his normal fee of $250,000 down to $100,000,” said Meredith Iler, the former chairman of the charity. However, a recent report by Politico said the former President’s fees typically ranged between $100,000 and $175,000 during those years.

So Bush not only charged them for the "honor" of having him raise money to help with the wounds that his lies and arrogance caused, but he also lied about giving them a discount.

You know it is at special moments like this that I really wish there were a Hell, so that I could take comfort in the idea of this POS suffering for all eternity.

But you know what, I am a reasonable man, I will settle for him being charged with war crimes and caged like an animal for the remainder of his days.

Anything less would be a travesty of justice.