re: Shooting in Virginia: LA representative Steve Scalise shot

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are you familiar with the femoral artery? Seriously

They had to use a belt as a tourniquet. That tells you he was bleeding profusely.

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How do you put a tourniquet on the hip?

If they used a tourniquet....then he was probably hit below the hip in the thigh.

Hip wounds are typically packed with gauze and bandaged with pressure on the wound