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- Mon Nov 06, 2017 9:20 am
- Forum: The Crime Blotter
- Topic: TX: Sutherland Springs church 26 dead 20 injured in mass shooting
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Re: TX: Sutherland Springs church 27 dead 30 injured in mass shooting
According to Fox News this morning, the shooter was denied a Texas LTC. (source was Gov. Abbott)
- Sun Nov 05, 2017 9:43 pm
- Forum: The Crime Blotter
- Topic: TX: Sutherland Springs church 26 dead 20 injured in mass shooting
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Re: TX: Sutherland Springs church 27 dead 30 injured in mass shooting
Who on this forum wants to get in a gunfight...handgun vs AR-15. The quickest way to get the bad guy to start shooting in your direction is to start shooting in his direction. I have read multiple forum members state that their gun is for THEIR protection. (including family) If I am sitting in Church, restaurant, theater, Etc and some nut starts shooting, I am going to take cover and protect my love ones. If that nut starts to directly threaten me then I will engage him. This is not to say that if I am close to the guy and have a good shot that I won't take it. But I strongly believe that any shooting like this is going to be mass confusion, with many innocent people moving around, and a clear shot opportunity will more than likely not present itself.
A torso wound needs a trauma surgeon. An extremity wound MIGHT be helped by a tourniquet. Sometime the best thing you can do is to load the victim in your car and drive fast to the nearest hospital. EMS in going to engage in triage and all this takes time. Most EMS departments in Texas do not have Paramedics. EMT's can't offer advanced life support. Internal bleeding can kill very quickly and some victims might not have the time to spare for EMS to get there and decide who goes first. Even small hospitals have surgeons that use that hospital. That Doctor might be close enough to respond to the hospital in an emergency. Houston only has 2 level one trauma centers and both of those are in the Medical Center downtown.
A torso wound needs a trauma surgeon. An extremity wound MIGHT be helped by a tourniquet. Sometime the best thing you can do is to load the victim in your car and drive fast to the nearest hospital. EMS in going to engage in triage and all this takes time. Most EMS departments in Texas do not have Paramedics. EMT's can't offer advanced life support. Internal bleeding can kill very quickly and some victims might not have the time to spare for EMS to get there and decide who goes first. Even small hospitals have surgeons that use that hospital. That Doctor might be close enough to respond to the hospital in an emergency. Houston only has 2 level one trauma centers and both of those are in the Medical Center downtown.