SGB:254241 said:
I am stating what I have learned and experienced when it comes to CNS injuries during my career as a paramedic. If you can't handle being corrected or questioned, I feel sorry for you.
Maybe you should wait on the pity party.
When dealing with self defense shootings the CNS (as it is referred to) is the brain stem and the cervical vertebrae, they control (as I'm sure you're aware) the major organs and muscles and a bullet shattering the brain stem or cervical vertebrae and it's lights out. If you had any professional self defense firearms training you would already know this.
It's been a while since I have gotten to talk anatomy, I'm looking forward to this.
The brain stem controls our breathing centers (reacts to CO2 in our system, and will adjust our respiratory rate, depth, and rhythm to keep us at normal levels). C3-C5 controls our diaphram. Knock those out, its instant off switch (without medical attention) because it causes paralysis and hypoxia (the heart is autonomic, has it's own electrical system, and the only reason your heart will stop after a CNS injury is becuase it lacks the oxygen to keep going, not becuase there is a power cord to your heart). Anything else below that, will not be fatal 100% of the time.
There is a flaw in your self defense training if your defintion of CNS is only the midbrain and CV. Let me explain. If your definition is true, then COM is too inferior to be considered CNS shots. Does your professional self defense training aim for COM or head/neck? Per your definiton of CNS, you are 5-12 inches inferior of where you would need to be aiming for "instant incapacitation" if you train to aim COM.
All my training was focused on COM, which includes my definition of the CNS (the length of the spinal cord; which is not only correct in SD but also medically), and the organs of the thoracic and abdominal cavities. We train to incapacitate the threat as quickly as possible. Once the threat is incapacitated (permanenty or not), we move to safety.
How about looking at statistics of shootings. 80% of shootings victims survive. They did not recieve permanent incapacitation, but the threat was over. So, with that knowledge, do you see where navy is coming from relating it to the pharmacist? How the word "permanent" is wrong. The bg in the pharmacy may not have recieved a fatal shot/permanent incapacitation, not until the pharmacist went back to "permanently" incapacitate the bg by kiling him.
How can you state you will permanently stop a threat, when 80% of the time you woud have go back and make it permanent?