RE: Trump Fading
November 4, 2015 at 12:15 am
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2015 at 12:17 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(November 3, 2015 at 11:56 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Actually Nutter active resistance during a mass shooting is considered a viable option by the experts.[...]
Even if that's true - so what? It's still one of the most unlikely situations for anyone to face. And even if somehow it was possible to train every kid to swarm an armed assailant - without scaring them out of going to school altogether - what is to stop deranged maniacs from adopting new strategies, like sniping people through the windows, or whatever?
Personally - I don't really care. I went to school in a country where school shootings did not happen. I never had to be trained in sacrificing my life, for the sake of everybody keeping their assault rifles. But it strikes me like putting the cart in front of a horse, to teach paranoia inducing stuff to kids in order to prevent - at best - 0.001% of casualties happening each year in USA alone. It's just like we were taught - back in the 80's - to hide underneath desks in case of nearby nuclear explosions. It's just more of the security theatre - and it's more damaging when aimed at kids...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
