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To: cosmicforce who wrote (212055)	12/18/2012 12:55:14 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541122

Cosmicforce, re: "Rational people do a Pareto chart of risk and work down the top ten. School gun violence is not what kills and maims students. It is cars probably followed distantly by sports and playground equipment. Both my wife's and my injuries were caused by PE teachers and a lack of understanding of child physiology." Yes, but the world and the vast majority of people do not care to be rational when it comes to protecting the lives of children from deliberate harm. (See my friendly fire analogy) And an additional fallout problem with a "Spock" (star trek) approach to the school shooting travesties is that parents MUST feel a sense of security in taking their kids to school or some of them won't take them to school. They'll home school or send them to private schools that they feel will afford better security and, therefor, the public school system will suffer. In line with your cost/benefit thinking, remember that the costs of providing, securing and training for the use of a last-ditch firearm are relatively modest. Finally, my initial point was that it was irrational to dismiss this alternative as bat-shit crazy the way one commentator did when she said (paraphrased), "when we had the shoe bomber we didn't put shoe bombs on the feet of all airline passengers." I'm not sure it's an idea we should implement but I am sure that it's a serious one. Ed