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Giving blood while armed

HankT

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Hey Herr Doug

South Carolina's Law Abiding Citizens Self-Defense Act of 1993 originally and may still prohibit legal gun carry in "medical facilities."

The state grassroots gun rights group made considerable effort to get a clarification of medical facility as including a blood services unit or not (physician not present) or Dr. Wu's Holystic and Homeopathic Medicine Parlor. I believe that the issue is still unresolved in South Carolina.


Herr Doug, isn't it actually South Carolina's Law Abiding Citizens Self-Defense Act of 1996?


Maybe you mean almost every other State. I surrendered my South Carolina Concealed Weapons Permit when I moved to Wisconsin. I was 'used to it', having carried under it for about ten years.

Here is a link to South Carolina's Law Abiding Citizens Self-Defense Act of 1996 , Title 23, Chapter 31, Section 205
http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t23c031.htm

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http://forum.opencarry.org/forums/s...Law+Abiding+Citizens+Self-Defense+Act+of+1996
 
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oneeyeross

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Have to chime in here from the other side....I have drawn units on people before, and I have to say that I've seen enough people take a nose dive after donating that having armed proned out on the floor out for a 10 count patients (at that point, not donors) would perhaps cause issues. It would cause problems if I had to call an ambulance.

And for the Red Cross, I can also understand their attitude about firearms. Think about when/how the Red Cross was formed and it makes sense (Battle of Solferino, 1859 was the why).

Oddly enough, it was the Ranger types from 2/75 that would have the most issues with needles, not the clerk or mechanic from the support units...
 
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