| No Images? Click here   The bullet struck the woman’s right forearm, passing cleanly through the flesh below her wrist and exiting the other side. The round was tumbling now, but still carrying enough force to re-enter her arm, lower down this time, before exiting again and plunging into her chest. The lead projectile then burst through her liver, finally coming to rest in the first lumbar vertebra of her lower back. Her death, described by a medical examiner, was determined to be a homicide.The unnamed woman was one of 58 victims killed by a lone gunman at a country music concert on the Las Vegas Strip on Oct. 1, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.HuffPost obtained autopsies for each of the 58 victims. The reports, released by the Clark County, Nevada, coroner’s office earlier this month, offer a raw account of the power of civilian weaponry and the damage it inflicts on human bodies, even when the gunman appears to have no particular firearms expertise.They describe catastrophic injuries, most the result of single rounds striking from a range of nearly 500 yards ― details of carnage that we tend to shy away from in media coverage.  WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?Trump said Florida high school students should have done more to prevent Wednesday's deadly shooting. Meanwhile, the president has actually made it easier for people with mental health issues to buy guns.A teen who survived the shooting called on lawmakers to "look in the mirror." The Parkland, Florida, high school senior implored legislators to “take some action.”The Senate was supposed to spend the week discovering what it could pass to help undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. They got the results on Thursday: At least for now, it’s nothing.
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