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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: one_less who wrote (57417)2/22/2018 8:26:31 AM
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That idea is insane...

I think what he may have in mind is the extraordinary single-mindedness, putting gun rights above all else to the exclusion of all else. No amount of cost to others or to the community is too great. You see the same thing in the pro-life movement where the well being of a fetus trumps absolutely everything.

I made a crack in a post to i-node yesterday about the red team's aversion to intended life-saving regulation by EPA. The push-back is routinely fierce. For that post I took a quick look at some numbers regarding kids killed in school shootings and we're talking about a couple a year on average. Of course that's a tragedy. Or course it shouldn't ever happen. But really, do we go to the ends of the earth to prevent them? More kids are killed getting to and from school. More kids are killed by lead paint. More kids are killed by lots of things we don't pull out all the stops to prevent. We pick and choose.

Turning schools into bunkers seems excessive, downright irrational, to me. Likewise the way we treat parents who let their kids walk to school or stay home alone when the parents deem the kids responsible enough and the environment safe enough.

We are blase when it comes to some risks and frantic when it comes to others. I think that's irrational if not insane.
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