Real excerpt from a letter received from a young doctor that was at NO Charity Hospit

[rwc]

I heard an interview on the radio with one of the doctors at Charity describing their last few days. They finally got a marine sniper to help keep down the incoming... Not your standard ER staffing.

And I too am another lawyer who shoots.

 

[entropy]

I think that the profession that I found shoots the most was engineers. I know more engineers that shoot than any other profession.

DFENSive shooting?

"Hey, homey, that's my breifcase."

 

[GunGoBoom]

There's an OBGYN that frequents the range here. He owns several NFA firearms and the last time he brought a 1919A4 in a wheelbarrow and a big bucket full of belts

I guess when he ditches his NFA and goes to his CAS shoots, he's got the biggest stirrups of the bunch. (bad joke; well I tried)

I'm a lawyer who shoots. I've got some lawyer buddies who do also, but know quite a few lawyers who don't have any guns, OTOH. I know exactly zero doctors personally, so can't comment on that. I've not paid a dime to the ABA since I found out they were anti-gun (during law school 9 years ago).

 

[bratch]

I think that the profession that I found shoots the most was engineers. I know more engineers that shoot than any other profession.

I'll go one step farther and say petroleum engineers. The local professional organization(SPE) runs a IDPA league. There are regular skeet/trap shoots. I know of companies that give shotguns for retirement and in the old days lots of gifts of firearms were given to get contracts.

 

[AVESguy]

Here in S Florida a surprising number of ER personnel are armed. We know a bunch of them. And lots of doctors and lawyers and every other type of professional who are shooters. The local trauma hospital has a full time city police officer in the ER.

My wife once worked ER at Martin Luther King Hospital in Compton, California, ground zero for riots of the sixties and beyond (That's in Watts, for the geographically uninformed). There were lots of army surgeons getting combat training there in the late 1980's. It really was a war zone. They called it the "home boy ambulance service" when a car would come screeching up to the ER, dump out a gunshot victim, and speed off, tires squealing.