Doctors post blood-soaked photos after NRA tells them to pipe down over gun restrictions.
Key points: NRA criticised "self-important" anti-gun doctors.
Photos of blood-stained scrubs, graphic X-rays and moving selfies have flooded Twitter in response to a post from the NRA promoting a news release which took aim at medical professionals calling for gun restrictions.
The NRA promoted the post in a tweet, which had attracted 3,000 likes but more than 20,000 replies.
"Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," the tweet read.
"As scientists and caregivers, we doctors are in a unique position to understand the scale of human suffering caused by guns," she wrote.
"We didn't choose this fight, but we if we have to, we can take on the NRA.". »