Everyone should know how to do this, guns or not. First aid is important. There are allegedly something like 30k serious chainsaw injuries each year, plus all the other serious injuries you get in trades, warehouses, shops, and so forth.
Most people will never use CPR, a heimlich, defibrillator, narcan or CAT. However, successful use of any of these will safe a life. Everyone should know how to use those things.
I need to throw some more supplies in my bleed stop kits. I have the basics for big stuff, but should add some closures/zip stitches for bad cuts and lacerations.
Word. My med kits are all built around serious bleeds - tourniquet, icb, clotting sponge, then work downwards in order of lethality. Which is great in an emergency, but frustrating when i realize i forgot to add basic bandaids again.
My first field amputation was a car accident and every tourniquet I've applied has been for something kids would see outside of a school shooting. Hitting windows, hopping fences, falling off things, all the fun shit drunks do. This kind of training should be universal.
My mom took a self-defense course when I was a teen and she was so excited about the training that I pretended like the throws and techniques were working when she asked to try them on me
I felt like I couldn't ruin her self confidence even though I could have destroyed her even at 14
Until her trainer was sentenced to 7 years for SA
The only thing worse than not being prepared is a false sense of security
And the only way to go even lower is giving that responsibility to children
Whenever some boomer brain shit whines about kids today being weak all I can think of is stuff like this. Nobody should have existential dread at that age.