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While I agree that everybody should know how to use a tourniquet, their justification is comical. The chances of most people being involved in or even in the vicinity of a shooting are almost zero.
Are they going to teach just how to apply the tourniquet and apply the pressure or are they going to go whole hog and teach them how to treat a sucking chest wound or how to treat for shock or how to administer CPR as well? No? Then it's just a feel good measure.
And how many of these people have ever been exposed to copious amounts of blood? Do you really want your life in the hands of somebody who's going to faint while you're spraying blood all over them?
