Thursday, October 14, 2010

Cheney Shooting Victim Nearly Died


WaPo:
Paramedics rushed the bleeding and unconscious Whittington to a hospital in tiny Kingsville, Tex. Doctors deemed his injuries serious enough to transfer him via helicopter to larger hospital in Corpus Christi, about 40 miles away.
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The shotgun sprayed upward of 200 birdshot pellets at Whittington, causing scores of wounds. His facial lacerations were the most dramatically bloody, but the injuries to his neck and chest were the most serious. Four days after being hit, the birdshot near his heart prompted it to beat erratically, forcing him back into the intensive care unit. Doctors said Whittington suffered a mild heart attack; he thinks it was something less, a heart "event."
Still, the injuries were more dire than previously disclosed. Whittington suffered a collapsed lung. He underwent invasive exploratory surgery, as doctors probed his vital organs for signs of damage. The load from Cheney's gun came close to, but didn't damage, the carotid artery in his neck. A rupture could have been fatal, particularly since it took the better part of an hour to transport him from the vast Armstrong ranch to the Kingsville hospital.


Note that many gunloon bloggers trivialized this.....

6 comments:

  1. In 1815 a volcano erupted killing thousands.

    Since we are pulling ancient history up as a post for today, thought I would add one too.

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  2. Gun Bloggers? It seemed to have been most of US MSM that made it sound as if it were a "flesh wound". This is a bit shocking to me.

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  3. Oh yeah, and if you think my sick humour is only saved for the likes of Meleanie Hain, I have a t-shirt with Cheney's face and a comment about shooting lawyers.

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  4. FWM, The article was in the Washington Post just a couple days ago. Not ancient news at all. At the time of the shooting, I don't remember anything in the news indicatinig it was anything much more than a grazing or a flesh wound. What happened to all your're theories about the liberal gun-hating press? I guess they weren't on the jab for this case.

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  5. "What happened to all your're theories about the liberal gun-hating press? I guess they weren't on the jab for this case."

    They were afraid of Darth Cheney.

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  6. I went to see if the WaPo was a News Corp publication. Sadly, it's not.

    Well, at least it had comics.

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