[meheleventyone]

Comedy gold. We shouldn’t base policy around outliers of outliers but we should have a policy of arming the populace in case they need to lead an insurrection which is itself an extreme outlier. Or the chance of needing a gun for self defence which is also quite the outlier particularly if you drill down into the actual risk factors rather than using broad statistics.

So far this year more school kids have died from being shot in the line of duty than cops who are routinely armed. So it doesn’t strike me as that much of an outlier. In particular kids should definitely be safer from gun violence than a police officer. That seems like a reasonable goal?

Or the fact that the incidence of school shootings means kids are more widely impacted than just those who end up on the wrong end of a gun.

[zmgsabst]

> In particular kids should definitely be safer from gun violence than a police officer. That seems like a reasonable goal?

No…? Why would comparing vastly different groups be “reasonable”?

Also, they are on a per capita basis: there’s a lot more school children than police officers.

By about two orders of magnitude (50M children to 600k officers).

[meheleventyone]

So you’re saying it’s perfect reasonable for more kids to be violently shot to death than police? On the whole my expectation is that the officers should be protecting the kids but this attitude certainly explains the behaviour of the officers on the day.