John Correia gives his response to the video from the Armed Attorneys on why having a trauma kit could be used against you by an over-zealous prosecutor. Correia says hogwash and steps through the Armed Attorney video to address some of the points and to point out that your defense counsel and defense experts should easily be able to refute any accusations that having a trauma kit and using it (or not using it) can be used to show some sort of intent or ill will. He also holds up the example of Kyle Rittenhouse as someone hauling around a medical kit and it not being used against him (Correia indicates it was never even raised as an issue in the Rittenhouse case).
While I tend to agree that having a kit will probably not become an issue, Correia makes one comment that if vocalized to authorities could make it an issue. Correia makes a comparison between using hollowpoint bullets just like the local police and carrying a trauma kit because the local police carry them too. Using bullets just like the local PD is to avoid or overcome arguments from the prosecutor that you used extra deadly bullets, because then the prosecutor or a witness would have to acknowledge that the local PD is using "extra deadly" bullets. The trauma kit issue, I fear, would come across in a different manner: that you were trying to emulate the police. And if you remember, one of the accusations that George Zimmerman faced was that he was not just an innocent armed citizen that happened to be robbed, but was acting like he was a police officer and proactively engaged with Saint Skittles.
It's fine to look at the local PD to see how they are carrying kits or what they include in a kit, but you're not carrying a trauma kit because that is what police do and you are a wanna-be officer, but because you want something in case you or a loved one are bleeding out, whether from a gun shot wound, knife wound, auto accident, farm or machinery accident, bear or dog attack or whatever.
Carry the kit. You are not invulnerable. As far as using it on the perp that forced you to shoot them in self defense, one bit of advice I've heard is don't get close enough to them to render aid. You just expose yourself to further attack and possible loss of weapon. Distance and cover are your friends.
ReplyDeleteSteve S6
I think yours is the best advice.
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