Tiny
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Post by Tiny on Jun 27, 2024 10:25:17 GMT -5
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 27, 2024 10:41:37 GMT -5
Tennesse may just need this training seeing the governor signed a law allowing teachers to possess firearms in their classrooms. My county said no thank you to guns in the classroom. School districts can opt out.
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happyhoix
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 27, 2024 10:42:10 GMT -5
So on the Titanic, instead of slowing down and avoiding ice burgs, they should have handed mops out to everyone, and it would be fine. 🤬
I’m a grown ass woman who does CPR training and my biggest fear is that I will freeze and forget how to use the defibrillator when a coworker really needs it. We’ve had one of our FA trained employees literally run away when a guy stabbed his finger with a tool. Yet we think 3rd graders will be able to act like wartime medics if a shooter blasts his way through the school?
Sounds like a bad SNL skit.
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mollyc
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Post by mollyc on Jun 27, 2024 19:31:27 GMT -5
My dad was one of the first aid attendants at a sawmill. The Mounties would pull him off the work bus if there was a car accident to help until the ambulance arrived. He dealt with some pretty nasty shit. When he lost parts of his fingers at work, he had to pack them on ice himself because the other attendant needed to fight passing out after bandaging my dad’s hand.
Yet when my mom passed out and stopped breathing all he could do was yell at her to breathe. He totally panicked. Mom would have died if my brother and his wife hadn’t been there.
I think everyone should have some idea how to stop bleeding. My friends and I ran around in the bush as kids and sometimes our cuts from branches were bad enough to require some pressure for a little while. But if you are putting it on kids that they need to know how to keep a friend from bleeding out, you are setting them up for big problems down the road. Not only is there the anxiety some of these kids will get from the possibility of this happening but you are setting them up to have guilt for failing their classmates along with the usual survivors guilt. Fuck that.
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NastyWoman
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Post by NastyWoman on Jun 27, 2024 21:02:52 GMT -5
cool! NOT. So now little Johnnie or little Suzie can deal with an extra trauma if their little friend bleeds out while the cops spend 74 minutes before deciding to take on a shooter. No problem, at least we won't limit access to guns in any way shape or form . Those kiddos are flexible and will get over it.
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Knee Deep in Water Chloe
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 28, 2024 8:43:47 GMT -5
Couple thoughts— I have only worked in one state, but here, first aid classes are often taught. Some would say it’s an important skill and necessary life knowledge. In secondary schools (grades 6-12) first aide courses along with certification are often part of required classes.
That said, I’m wondering if the rhetoric here is, If you’re not going to do anything to stop school shootings, we should pass a law that has our 6yos capable of GSW care.
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Tiny
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Post by Tiny on Jun 28, 2024 8:56:48 GMT -5
Just think about the future... if kids across America get enough (and ever more age appropriate field medic training) in 10 or 15 years we will have a society where in any crowd of people many of them will know how to deal with/provide aide to the victims of mass shootings. Or maybe a land war in America. The Prepper segment of Americans must be over the moon with joy.
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