Donald Trump wants to arm teachers with guns

[henryp]

Yeah, if it was 1740, and your brother lined up in a field across from the US Army, best team wins situation, it'd be nothing.  Just like we'd have been out of Iraq in a week playing by those rules.  Using Iraq again as an example, there's never any doubt the US could conquer Iraq.  The insurgency wasn't thinking "Maybe we'll kill all of them before they kill all of us!"  It's about the price.  Can you make it so expensive that it's not worth it.  And if the US had a rough expensive go of it in Iraq, imagine trying to deal with the continental United States filled with millions of reasonably well armed civilians.  Where would you even begin? An urban gorilla war in a 3.8 million square mile expanse of land?  Iraq was 170k for comparison.

The way to win a war against civilians is to poison the water and cutoff the food.  It helps to mount constant attacks 24-7 even if they are low-level.

You don't want to kill off all your civilians.  You want to kill off the armed insurgency.  An armed insurgency that is going to hide among the civilians.  

If you kill off all the civilians, you'll be left with a shell of a country with no value.  The whole point of running the US is that it's rich and powerful.  If you use your military to endlessly fight your own populace, it'll be neither rich nor powerful real quick.  Which was the original counterpoint to someone saying an armed population doesn't matter if the government goes totalitarianist on us, or something to that effect.  Not that I think the government is ever going to  attempt such a thing.  But practically speaking, there'd be no reason to try because you'd have to burn the whole country to the ground.

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Kiss your kids - they could be next.

Boru

You should kiss your kids a anyway, because there's a bunch of drunk and distracted drivers on the road.  That's the real threat to your children, not the millions to one chance they are shot at school.