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Dr. Regina Royan, an emergency medicine resident at the University of Chicago, tweeted a picture of an operating room with pools of blood on the floor: \"I held this 22-year-old’s heart & used my hand to pump blood through a bullet-riddled body.\"

I held this 22-year-old’s heart & used my hand to pump blood through a bullet-riddled body. We resuscitated this person for nearly an hour & they made it to the OR, but would never make it home to their family. Tell me whose lane this is @NRA ? #thisisOURlane @ResearchAffirm pic.twitter.com/aXinICgI2g

— Regina Royan, MD MPH (@ReginaRoyan) November 14, 2018

\"First patient, first day of residency: gunshot wound to the head,\" read one tweet from Dr. Brent McCaleb, a family medicine resident at Bayfront Health St. Petersburg, next to a photo of splashes of blood on his scrubs.

First patient, first day of residency: gunshot wound to the head. Tried saving him as his mother cried into my shoulder pleading for us to save him. He didn’t make it. He wasn’t the last one either. #ThisISMyLane #ThisISOurLane #NRA pic.twitter.com/n820f6LvQq

— Brent McCaleb, MD (@brentmccaleb) November 12, 2018

Dr. Stephanie Bonne, a trauma surgeon with University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, was also outraged by the NRA’s response. She shared a photo to #ThisISOurLane of her own operating room after a patient tragically died from a gun injury.

\"I mean are they kidding? Not my lane? Like, this is my highway. This is where I live every day. This is what I do every day,\" she told ABC News' \"Start Here\" podcast.

Good morning! Just a reminder @NRA : #ThisISMyLane #ThisISOurLane . She didn’t make it. pic.twitter.com/LMnev4bylF

— Stephanie Bonne (@scrubbedin) November 10, 2018

The shooting hit even closer to home for Bonne, who trained at Mercy Hospital seven years ago.

\"One of the first things I thought was ... is this somebody that I knew? Was this one of my friends, one of my colleagues?”

University Hospital treats more than 500 gunshot wounds a year in Newark, according to Bonne, but she stressed it's not just \"urban centers\" that are seeing these firearm injuries. The entire medical community is feeling the effects of the rising death toll from gun violence.

\"There's not a surgeon in the country that didn't do trauma as part of their residency, and part of their training, and hasn't been there to see a patient who's been shot and had to do a life-saving operation on them,\" she said to \"Start Here.\"

For years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was barred by law from advocating for gun control and as a result did not publish much research on the topic. But last week, the CDC released new data, showing that after a decline in deadly shootings, gun deaths rose between 2015 and 2016, including 27,000 firearm homicides and 45,000 firearm suicides.

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PHOTO: Police stand near Mercy Hospital, Nov. 19, 2018, after multiple people were reported shot on the Near South Side of Chicago.
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Instead of staying in \"their lane,\" Bonne wants doctors to have a seat at the table in conversations addressing gun violence as a public health issue.

\"What I can tell you is that an AR-15 is far more damaging a bullet than a handgun bullet, so to the extent that that is useful to the conversation, then I belong at the table to say, 'Hey, these bullets damage a lot more than a handgun bullet and people die from them because the organ damage that's inflicted by [this is] far and above worse than what we see with ordinary ammunition in rifles.\"

As doctors continue to share stories to #ThisISOurLane, Bonne believes more attention, and more research, will be focused on gun violence.

\"A lot of my colleagues have said recently ... for too long we've been sanitizing the problem,\" she told \"Start Here.\" \"Getting a bunch of doctors together to post pictures of their ... bloody scrubs and floors and everything else up on Twitter was certainly powerful.\"

The NRA did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.

This story is featured on the Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, edition of the ABC News \"Start Here\" podcast.

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