What Bullets Do To Bodies: If Only We Saw The Carnage That Trauma Surgeons Face Every Day...

Gunshot wounds are serious. All penetrating trauma is serious regardless of the cause. This article is downright silly. It is over long and filled with puff like the expensive car the doctor drives or what coffee she drinks or where she grew up. Anyone can get a better sense of the effect of bullets by googling 'gunshot wound'.
But besides the worthlessness of the article, what is the point? Bullets are designed to cause harm? BIG REVEAL THERE!! Duh. So are mines, IEDs, bayonets, knives and even cars & trucks in the hands of the wrong people.

And THAT is the point. Until such time as any government or policing power can 100% guarantee that innocent people will not be subjected to bodily hard by criminals, the gun, especially the handgun, remains the best defense against the bodily harm bemoaned in the article being inflicted on the innocent.
I have a different headline: "What Bullets Do To Bodies. Why Thinking, Self-reliant Individuals Will Not Willingly Be Victims of Violent Assault without Defending Themselves."

There are a lot of things that medical professionals see that lay persons do not want to see or experience. What if politicians spend time at a field hospital? What if a CEO of a company that makes land mines spent time in hospitals in Afghanistan. Having spent eight months in a CSH in Afghanistan, bullets are far from the worst wound out there.

TL;DR
Like Woody Allen, "My doctor has forbidden me to allow bullets to enter my body".
It is vacuous to write on how destructive bullets are to the body. My reaction is "No sh-t! Who'd a thunk it."