Shit happens, especially when you don't expect it. Don't wait until someone mugs you to realize the thing is useless if it's at home in the safe. Be an asset to your community instead of a liability. Which leads to another point.
Carry medical. You're much more likely to save someone with a tourniquet than a pistol. This guy rubber banded one to his rifle and I think that's a cool setup.
Have used a bandana as a tourniquet and a pen as a tensioner twice before, successfully. Key is the need for a tensioner. Be it a pen, stick, screwdriver. Whatever one can use to tighten the tourniquet, then tie off.
For what, heroin? Adapting can be useful but it's like I can use the battery pack of a drill to bash a nail in but you should really use the right tool for the job.
Not everyone has an active shooter story but theres always one guy in a group that has a story about seeing a traffic accident and people trying to use shoelaces to stop bleeding and shit. Having a simple med kit with basic life saving equipment is cheap. There's no reason not to.
This isn't an argument. They didn't have nylon, genius. They HAD dedicated medical kit. They didn't go out in the field with only a bundle of twigs and some chewing gum thinking they are macgyver.
Shit happens, especially when you don't expect it. Don't wait until someone mugs you to realize the thing is useless if it's at home in the safe. Be an asset to your community instead of a liability. Which leads to another point.
Carry medical. You're much more likely to save someone with a tourniquet than a pistol. This guy rubber banded one to his rifle and I think that's a cool setup.
https://youtu.be/z57sMrKynvk
My bandanas, belt, even my t-shirt can be used as tourniquets.
No. They really can't. 90% of improvised tourniquets fail.
Have used a bandana as a tourniquet and a pen as a tensioner twice before, successfully. Key is the need for a tensioner. Be it a pen, stick, screwdriver. Whatever one can use to tighten the tourniquet, then tie off.
For what, heroin? Adapting can be useful but it's like I can use the battery pack of a drill to bash a nail in but you should really use the right tool for the job.
Not everyone has an active shooter story but theres always one guy in a group that has a story about seeing a traffic accident and people trying to use shoelaces to stop bleeding and shit. Having a simple med kit with basic life saving equipment is cheap. There's no reason not to.
Tell that to all those civil war soldiers that lost limbs because crude tourniquets were left on too long.
This is like blaming cars because you suck exhaust pipes on your free time
This isn't an argument. They didn't have nylon, genius. They HAD dedicated medical kit. They didn't go out in the field with only a bundle of twigs and some chewing gum thinking they are macgyver.