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On Monday morning, The Washington Post<\/em> published<\/a> a series of 3D animations to show \"how bullets from an AR-15 blow the body apart.\" <\/p> A few hours later, a 28-year-old shooter armed with two assault rifles and a handgun killed<\/a> six people at a private Christian school in Nashville.<\/p> In the wake of that massacre\u2014the 129th<\/a> mass shooting in the United States in 2023\u2014the Post<\/em>'s expos\u00e9 has received sustained attention, with one person calling<\/a> it \"the most powerful article you will read this week\" and another characterizing<\/a> it as \"one of the most important pieces of journalism ever produced.\"<\/p> Noting that the lethal wounds caused by AR-15s \"are rarely seen\" by the public, the newspaper demonstrated \"the trajectory of two different hypothetical gunshots to the chest\u2014one from an AR-15 and another from a typical handgun\u2014to explain the greater severity of the damage caused by the AR-15.\"<\/p> Then, after obtaining permission from the parents of two school shooting victims, a team of visual reporters created 3D models to depict how bullets fired from \"many mass killers' weapon of choice\" obliterated their children's bodies.<\/p>\n