Mayhem
Regular Member
Agree to disagree
Virginia does not require people to lock up their guns. Only keep them out of the reach of children. And I would like it that way so I could have quick access to a loaded gun since I have no kids in my house.
No, I do not work in public safety. But I feel that medics are not expected to enter a dangerous situation and can wait for the police. I have heard of the medics "staging" and waiting for police to show before they go in where it might be dangerous.
I do not see the need to arm medics with firearms. I do not know of any community that is so bad that medics need to sneak up to the victim's door, guns drawn at the low ready, and give medical assistance. LOL
My greatest fear is that our cops do not appear to get enough training, and now we would have medics with far less training deploying firearms!! Don't get me wrong, I understand what you are getting at. But we have to draw the line on duties. I would not want a cop cross trained to give me an IV for heat stroke since he does not do it every day. Same goes for a medic deploying a firearm and shooting at what he believes is a threat.
If the community is that bad on a daily basis... it sounds like the medic unit needs to add a police swat team member!!
So we can agree to disagree on this.
A lot of states do have regulations that require owners to lock firearms if children are around, and hold them criminally liable if a child is injured by an improperly stored firearm.
I am not looking at making them military combat medics even though a lot of police agencies are arming EMT's & Medics as Tactical Medics across the county. I am looking at allowing "us" to carry a firearm for the times when we don't know that a scene will turn unsafe for us with no PD around.
No I do not have statistics I know there have been a couple times that I have had very close calls personally over sixteen years. The only thing I do know is and I will repeat it again 40% of EMS injuries are assault related.
My final statement before you pass judgement on if you think we should be armed. Are you an EMT? Paramedic? Firefighter? Police Officer? any type of First Responder involved in street level public safety? If not I really do not understand how you can think or possibly know what we need and do not need? There is a lot of stuff that never makes it to the media more so now with HIPPA.
Virginia does not require people to lock up their guns. Only keep them out of the reach of children. And I would like it that way so I could have quick access to a loaded gun since I have no kids in my house.
No, I do not work in public safety. But I feel that medics are not expected to enter a dangerous situation and can wait for the police. I have heard of the medics "staging" and waiting for police to show before they go in where it might be dangerous.
I do not see the need to arm medics with firearms. I do not know of any community that is so bad that medics need to sneak up to the victim's door, guns drawn at the low ready, and give medical assistance. LOL
My greatest fear is that our cops do not appear to get enough training, and now we would have medics with far less training deploying firearms!! Don't get me wrong, I understand what you are getting at. But we have to draw the line on duties. I would not want a cop cross trained to give me an IV for heat stroke since he does not do it every day. Same goes for a medic deploying a firearm and shooting at what he believes is a threat.
If the community is that bad on a daily basis... it sounds like the medic unit needs to add a police swat team member!!
So we can agree to disagree on this.
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