This news was just posted by the AP: "Four volunteer firefighters responding to a pre-dawn house fire were shot Monday morning, two fatally, leading to a shootout in suburban Rochester, N.Y., police said."
What the hell???
My response is likely to be a bit impulsive, but this hits as close to home as the Newtown shootings. I've been a paramedic for over 25 years. I've been cussed at, assaulted, ignored, shoved, spit at, thanked, hugged, and given gifts. I never felt I needed a gun.
Perhaps I have too romantic a view of healthcare. I have paramedic friends in a neighboring city, call it the city of medicine, who are issued body armor to protect them from shooters. But when has it become necessary to fear going to the movies, a mall, school, and trying to help the public?
There are many opinions on gun control. What are we looking to do? Disarm America? Disarm the bad guys, or the crazy ones, or the desperate ones? Hey, maybe if EVERYONE carried a sidearm we wouldn't have this problem.
How have we protected ourselves so effectively against terrorists, but not from ourselves?
I would argue I'd rather feel at risk of a terrorist attack than some random act of violence while responding to HELP people.
Maybe I'll have something more to say later, but for now I'm just sickened. I'll appreciate my family's Christmas a lot more this year, as countless families oer the past 8 days have had theirs ruined...forever.
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