well well well another school mass shooting...

[Bawanna]

I agree with DM123. Same everywhere I think. The police clear the scene and make it secure. It seems in a school shooting they could break it down into areas and get medics in sooner to area's they had covered already.
It has to be extremely frustrating.

[Bawanna]

On the subject of medics I think those that want to should be armed too. They are medics, not sheep.

Also on the subject I think mail carriers should all be deputized, and allowed to be armed too if they choose for their own protection, not related to being deputized.. Not as responders but only eyes in the neighborhood. Nobody knows more about the going's on in a neighborhood than the mailman.

[JohnR]

Our "letter carriers" seem to walk around talking on their cell phones. Not sure how much attention they pay to the 'hood.

[Bawanna]

Ya know, my idea on mail carriers is at least 30 years old. My mother was a mail carrier for over 30 years. Things were sooooo different then.
Like most everything else (Law Enforcement too) the standards have been lowered so much so that just about anybody can qualify, I'm talking round peg in round hole simple that maybe my idea is no longer valid.

I know a few very long term mail carriers and they are pretty much disgusted with the way things are run these days.

I withdraw my idea of deputizing mail carriers. At one time it was sound, now, perhaps not so much.

[yqtszhj]

On the subject of medics I think those that want to should be armed too. They are medics, not sheep.
.

Interesting note. I met a medic at my local shooting range a few years back. He carried a j-frame in his pocket. He said they run into some weird stuff on calls and he worked with one of the lifeflight helicopter crews most of the time. He also said he's seen more deaths from .22 than other calibers, mostly because people plink with them and are negligent because its a small caliber, doing stupid things like pointing them at each other and pulling the trigger thinking they are unloaded when they aren't. He also said that many of those are head shots too because people are stupid.

If you get squeamish dont read the rest of this post. He noted if the .22 enters the skull it makes a real mess because it cant exit many times and migrates just goes round and round inside scrambling everything. Paints a bad picture but makes the point ALL firearms can be dangerous and the shooter needs to be responsible regardless of caliber.

[Bawanna]

Scrambling everything? Could be why I am the way I am? Don't recall ever being shot in the head with a 22. 2 or 3 times with a 380 but they didn't penetrate.???? I don't think.

Have been having some brain pain lately, maybe a couple got through......

[ltxi]

Interesting note. I met a medic at my local shooting range a few years back. He carried a j-frame in his pocket. He said they run into some weird stuff on calls and he worked with one of the lifeflight helicopter crews most of the time. He also said he's seen more deaths from .22 than other calibers, mostly because people plink with them and are negligent because its a small caliber, doing stupid things like pointing them at each other and pulling the trigger thinking they are unloaded when they aren't. He also said that many of those are head shots too because people are stupid.

If you get squeamish dont read the rest of this post. He noted if the .22 enters the skull it makes a real mess because it cant exit many times and migrates just goes round and round inside scrambling everything. Paints a bad picture but makes the point ALL firearms can be dangerous and the shooter needs to be responsible regardless of caliber.

And that's why we used them. Std pressure shorts and subsonic lr...effective with little chance of exit, little mess, and play well with suppressors.

[ltxi]

Scrambling everything? Could be why I am the way I am? Don't recall ever being shot in the head with a 22. 2 or 3 times with a 380 but they didn't penetrate.???? I don't think.

Have been having some brain pain lately, maybe a couple got through......

Came wthin a hair once, but I know ain't never been shot in the head....there goes that excuse.

[JohnR]

Brains get scrambled, then they become Congressmen.

[knkali]

Brains get scrambled, then they become Congressmen.

duuuude

[yqtszhj]

Brains get scrambled, then they become Congressmen.

I knew there was a pattern. You nailed it.