– Too Old To Work, Too Young To Retire does not appear to like what I wrote about EMS being armed and dangerous. [1] – This post is well below your usual standards regarding data and analysis. You certainly wouldn’t use statements such as, The police have psychological screening, but for EMS the only screening seems to be to have failed the police psych exam. in any other context regarding EMS, but you feel free to use such gratuitous insults regarding EMS providers when it comes to something that you don’t favor. When did TOTWTYTR become a stranger to sarcasm? If TOTWTYTR wishes to contradict me, he can provide his own sarcasm. Another job that EMS often considers as an alternative to EMS is nursing. If I made a comment about intubation not making EMS better than nurses, would that also be offensive? – It certainly undermines your credibility when it comes to your other declarative statements about EMS, providers, physicians, and medical control. Certainly? Please explain how sarcasm undermines credibility. After all, TOTWTYTR never uses sarcasm to make a point./ – Statistically civilian gun owners are safer at handling their firearms than are police officers. Most police officers are not “gun people” and many that I know view having a firearm as a liability. On the other hand, civilian gun owners spend a lot of time practicing and especially practicing safe handling of their firearms. People in EMS are not civilians any more than police are civilians. We are uniformed emergency personnel. The uniform is a bit of a clue. – Why do we think we won’t be donating our weapons to the people we want to protect ourselves from? There is no data to support the long spoken lie that civilians will always have guns taken away from them by criminals

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