TMF

I think a lot of these kits marketed nowadays are designed by former action people or wannabe types who get wrapped up in the idea of 'combat loadout' and put a lot of things in there that sound cool, but aren't intended for use in an environment where there is immediate care. Guaranteed, if there is a shooting there will be lights and sirens coming towards you. In combat you might be hours, even days from receiving care. That's when doing some of these field expedient procedures makes sense, since the worst that could happen is the patient dies, gets infection or has a permanent medical condition related to field treatment by a knuckle dragging trigger puller. Not too many cons there if the likelihood of death without field expedient treatment is likely, due to proximity to care. But in our setting, in the US, the chances of 1) being wounded in such a manner or treating someone wounded in such a manner is incredibly slim (unless it is part of your job such as police, fire, EMT, postal worker, stripper...) and 2) the chances of being in such a situation and being hours or days away from care is practically nil. I have a trauma kit in the truck to deal with the big ones, such as airway and bleeding, like j tubes, nasal trumpets, tourniquets, curlex, ace wrap.. . Those will kill you quick. I also have things like chest seals and quick clot, but not so much because I have intention of using them, but I just don't have anywhere else to put them. The last thing I would do would be to introduce some of the crap I have into a patient if I know an EMT is gonna be there short order and the work I did is only gonna complicate things for the doc when he gets to the hospital. So take some of the stuff in that kit with a grain of salt. All the wizz bang stuff is good to have in a SHTF environment, but for the stuff you would encounter and how you would treat it should be the simple stuff; bandages and airway. Heck, even for SHTF it won't do you much good, since if you're treating many of the ailments that cool stuff is designed for the patient is gonna die anyway. On another note, of the EMTs out there, have any of you actually treated or are aware of a colleague treating a sucking chest wound with needle decompression? I'm just a knuckle dragger, but I figured that'd be something that could wait until the doc stuck a hose in the patient. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

There are many laws I don't expect LE to know. Laws concerning the carrying of firearms is definitely one they should know. That is skill level one type stuff. Any law enforcement officer that does not know the handgun carry laws is derelict in his duties. It isn't as if there is a secret crypt where this information is hidden. When I applied for my permit I found the rules in the TCA and educated myself. A law enforcement officer should be doing the same if he intends to enforce laws pertaining to that. Simply making an "on the spot" law that doesn't exist is a Barney Fief moment, and shows what an unprofessional mouth breather that cop is. If an officer is confused about a law he is free to educate himself at any time (and should since he is supposed to be enforcing the damn law) or he can get on the radio and call an adult to ask what the laws are. There is no room for debate here. You can't enforce laws that don't exist. Saying that there are too many laws for police to know them all I can agree with, but that means they shouldn't be ENFORCING laws that don't exist in the first place. That is the dumbest set of reasoning I've heard in a while.

Who the f@$k is talking about conspiracy theories? Are we on the same topic here? And when did I say I would use force? Are you just making assumptions or something? I was talking about two dimwit cops that needed to be corrected on what the laws are. And I'm not kidding when I say this, if a cop said that it is against the law to chamber a round I will absolutely tell him that it is not and that I intend to chamber a round as soon as we are done talking. He will have only two options and that is to either educate himself and eat crow, or arrest me and eat some very serious crow. Either way, you are wrong. Police don't make the laws, so they can not dictate to me new laws or make-believe laws. That is why we have people we elect.... you know, at polls and stuff.

What makes them special??? Are you friggin for real man? Their job is to enforce the law! I expect them to have a better understanding of it than "regular folks". For crying out loud you must live in bizarro world. I don't expect to walk into a Subway and explain to the guy behind the counter how to make a turkey club. I don't expect to explain to my doctor how to properly treat or diagnose an illness. I don't expect to have an encounter with a cop and have to explain to him what the laws are.