Your response, w/ its'sample of one, proves you are an idiot. Again, which major metro area produced the high volume of GSW calls and were you the only medic responding in your community?
Keep digging.
mike r
If you do some research, my "sample of one" is pretty much typical.
Sacramento CA, specifically South Sacramento. And that's not a real high number of GSW's. On your average day in Sacto (when I was a medic) I would hear about 3 or 4 shooting calls go out. Of that typically one or two would be hit. On the weekend shooting calls were 8-10, and about half would be hit.
Sacramento even today has a high crime rate, but back in the '80's they were near the top (and sometimes at the top) for highest murder rate in the nation.
But it's not so much a high GSW volume as it was 16 years on the job.
