The Annoyed Man wrote:There was a thread posted just in the last couple of weeks from someone asking if one has a responsibility to provide first aid to the person one has just shot in self-defense (http://texaschlforum.com/viewtopic.php? ... 1#p1200761). The story in the OP of this thread shows exactly why you shouldn’t get close enough to do that. Unless the GSW is immediately incapacitating for medical reasons, the decision to give up when shot is entirely in the shot person’s control. They decide to quit. The flip side of that is that they are also capable of deciding to fight. If you shoot someone, and he quits, he’s still a desperate man. If you give him the opening to get out of his predicament, he may well take it. You can’t give him that opening as long as you stay out of his reach.
My daughter was hesitant to get her LTC, because she is an RN, and was worried, that if she had to shoot someone, it would violate her nursing oath, which in part ( because I don't know the whole thing and I am admittedly too lazy to look up) says that she would cause no harm to her patients. I explained that anyone who wished to cause her harm, was not her "patient" until he/she had been admitted. Until then they were her attacker, and her shooting them, was not a violation of her oath. Even if her actions, resulted in them becoming her patient.
I would sure hate to wake up in ICU, and see my intended victim, as my caregiver. It might cause me to believe Judgement had already determined my fate!!
