Quote Originally Posted by Weedhound
So a tight tourniquet above the wound wouldn't help eh?
It wouldn't have helped Sean Taylor because his wound was in the area of the groin, so there was no higher part of a limb to constrict with a tourniquet, and it's not possible to put a tight belt around someone's waist and cinch off the aorta that supplies the femorals. The aorta runs too deep, is protected too well by the internal organs, and is too strong to cinch off with external pressure.

If he'd been shot down lower in the leg and someone knew how to apply a tourniquet or compression cuff quickly and correctly, he might indeed gave had a better chance. But in this case the wound was in a spot that made that impossible.