Posted on 03/31/2011 5:11:54 AM PDT by marktwain
I'll soon be launching a survey of all my readers and other gun owner-Americans around the nation. Readers of my Newsletter will receive the Survey this week and others need to give their permission if they would care to take the survey by opting in to the Newsletter.
Years ago, I formulated an identity of purpose between the armed citizen and citizen CPR training. I don't know how many gun owners know CPR as part of their preparedness plan, so I thought I'd ask. While I'm at it, I'll be asking a few other questions as germane to the second amendment as part of a larger picture of our bigger government.
Decades ago, I was asked to join a panel that started the whole thing; I was asked to furnish the Paramedic's field viewpoint to why doctors and attorneys should get behind the movement to train citizens in CPR. You'd think it was a slam dunk, but we had met resistance. As you might imagine, we [Paramedics around the country for that function] persuaded them and the rest is history. Today, in 2011, no one can imagine the medical community at any time being skeptical of training citizens in CPR.
Over the years, I noted one other condition so very similar that the response would also be similar: the private ownership and carry of lethal force: guns. The armed citizen is identical to citizen CPR.
I've noted this for decades now where, for most reasonable people, misunderstanding, mistaken notions and assumptions could be rectified for making their streets safer streets by educating the electorate, not necessarily with facts, but with personal meaning. I write books and articles on that, but this is a different passageway to safer streets. Or, safer campuses or safer workplaces.
In the seventies, doctors saw their apprehensions about civilians abated and washed away. Today, this week in fact, college trustees, fellow students, and others express similar apprehensions about armed students who might sit next to them, or have a differing opinion in a debate, and they -- along with the rest of America -- just might like to know one more fact beyond a simple assurance that they are safer with armed adults than without. They might like to have more than the authority of a civil right and our word for it.
I think I've found it.
Enter the Safer Streets Gun Owner Survey. I have a series of questions for gun owner-Americans, and there are several things we are looking for. It's time for the American gun owner to be heard not as a "gun lobby," but as American individuals, heads of household, and as loved ones.
The survey is national in scope, and will be available sometime this week. You must give your permission -- opt-in -- to the Safer Streets Newsletter to take the survey. One survey per household, please. Results should flow in the weeks following.
Please go to www.GoodForTheCountry.com to learn more.
Does he mean CPR for the guy after you shoot him? No sense in taking heart and lung shots I guess.
Why is the latest AHA Guideline “compressions only”?
If the airway is obstructed, then circulating the oxygen starved blood will do little good without first clearing the obstruction and providing an initial supply of a lungfull of air.
The current guidelines appear to be illogical. Please illuminate.
Thanks,
RT
Guidelines for first responders (EMTs) are the same for the first 100 compressions. Then we work on airway and providing rescue breathing at 30 compressions to every 2 breaths. During the first phase, we also get the AED connected and analyze for a shockable rhythm.
For further information, go to AHA.org website.
Thanks for the info. I didn’t know CPR had changed that much.
But then, I was certified as a Scout Lifeguard (and later, University pool lifeguard) in the ‘60s, again as an adult in the ‘70s, taught (as a Scoutmaster) in the ‘80s, got fat and lazy in the ‘90s, and too old in the ‘00s, LOL.
The old method worked well on 1 pulled from the water, 1 heart attack victim (who had a 2nd attack in the ambulance and died on the way to the hospital), and successfully used the Heimlich manouver on about a half-dozen over the years.
EVERYONE should know this stuff and other basic first aid procedures. (Whoops, guess that means I’m gonna have to brush up on the latest stuff. Me and my big mouth, lol.)
I guess some of is older types can still learn a few tricks, heheh.
Thanks again,
RT
No he don’t mean CPR for a goblin that you just shot . He means people who go to the trouble to carry concealed are the same sort of people who go get certified in First-aid & CPR. they are in fact the bedrock of society & western civilization & bad mouthing them is a seriously stupid thing to do.
Watch this 4 min video and possibly save your wife or husband.
I looked for ten minutes trying to find a “compressions only” video. Do you have one you can post?
AHA charges for all their training products.
As long as they get the 100 compressions right, that’s probably the most important thing to saving someone in immediate need.
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