If you won't stop school shootings

Then teach the third-graders how to stop the bleeding

A new Texas bill for that state’s 88th — working title is, “An Act Relating to the Regulation of Bleeding Control Stations in Public Schools” — requires “bleeding control stations” where school personnel and volunteers are trained are annually offered”

instruction on the use of a bleeding control station from a school resource officer or other appropriate district or school personnel who has received the training under Subdivision (3) to students enrolled at the campus in grade three [seven] or higher.

The emphasis is mine.

The stations, according to the bill, would require:

 (1)  tourniquets approved for use in battlefield trauma care by the armed forces of the United States;             

(2)  chest seals;              

(3)  compression bandages;              

(4)  bleeding control bandages;              

(5)  space emergency blankets;              

(6)  latex-free gloves;              

(7)  markers;              

(8)  scissors; [and]              

(9)  instructional documents developed by the American College of Surgeons or the United States Department of Homeland Security detailing methods to prevent blood loss following a traumatic event; and              

(10)  emergency alerting devices.

This is the result of legislators who value weaponry over people, and who after every mass shooting, make it easier to get a gun. This isn’t harm reduction. This is insanity.