Donald Trump wants to arm teachers with guns

[henryp]

And how many American Tyrants have guns defeated in the past 231 years?  I mean here you are in one breath talking about the importance of guns against tyranny, and in the next talking about how unlikely it is for your kids to get killed in a mass shooting.

I think guns would prevent tyranny, but I'm not worried about tyranny.  The context of the discussion was whether or not guns would prevent tyranny, not if tyranny was likely.  I don't think it's likely.

That being said, I think stockpiling weapons in the event of some level of societal collapse is practical.  I'm not doing it, but that's just me gambling that it won't happen.  I don't think the risk of situations where you'd absolutely want to be very well-armed is that small anymore.

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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.

If you want to start a thread on the topic of safe driving, by all means do so.  I strongly suspect that we'd be of one mind about that.

But the topic here is school shootings.

Boru

I'm just saying you were dramatizing the threat.  People believe the hyperbole.  I'm sure the people who don't vaccinate their kids are terrified to send their kids to school because they can't understand probability.  They only respond to the intensity in which the threat is presented to them.

If you're truly scared your kids will die in a school shooting, math says you should be terrified they are going to die all the time from many more likely events.  

When you pack your family into the station wagon to go to Applebees, you should be white knuckling it as you drive the 3 miles down the highway.  But you don't.  Because you're almost certainly going to be fine.  There's just this huge disconnect between reality and perceived reality, and it makes people say and do dumb stuff.