Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said Sunday that students who have rallied for gun control should instead learn CPR or find their own way to prevent a school shooting. Santorum’s comments came a day after hundreds of thousands of high school students from around the country, protested at the March for Our Lives in Washington and at satellite marches around the country. Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organized the march to advocate for stricter gun control laws. “How about kids, instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations so]that when there is a violent shooter, that you can actually respond to that?” Well we are all entitled to our opinions. But that opinion was meet with red hot fire by the people who have to fix the victims that are mowed downed with machine guns.
Dr Gu: As a surgeon, I’ve operated on gunshot victims who’ve had bullets tear through their intestines, cut through their spinal cord, and pulverize their kidneys and liver. Rick Santorum telling kids to shut up and take CPR classes is simply unconscionable.
Dr Bell: Here are some stats made simple for Rick Santorum: Survival rate of pulseless trauma victims who get CPR at the scene: VERY, VERY LOW. Survival rate of people who don’t get shot in the first place: MUCH, MUCH BETTER
Healthcare Professional, Jon Loquasto: As a healthcare professional who is certified in CPR, I can confirm that performing CPR can’t remove AR-15 bullets from a body. Get a clue. Sincerely, Common Sense
Then there were these opinions…
Dan Rather: There is no shortage of misguided statements in today’s America. But Rick Santorum suggesting that kids learn CPR instead of calling for gun laws is in a category of its own.
My personal favorite, Joy Reid: This is breathtaking … and not in a good way…
Finally an opinion from a victim whose mother was cut to pieces with .22-caliber Savage MK II-F bolt action rifle with magazine.
Gun Safety program manager Erica Lafferty, whose mother was shot and killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting:
“Rick Santorum’s words are an insult to the kids of Parkland, my family and to the countless others who have had loved ones taken by gun violence. My mother was killed while protecting her students at Sandy Hook School. For anyone to suggest that the solution to gun violence is for kids to learn CPR is outrageous, and indicative of the NRA’s desire to do or say anything except strengthen America’s weak gun laws.”
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