Thursday, February 27, 2014
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Interesting bit of thought about priorities...
This is from an excellent thread on Pistol-Forum.com:
I've heard several professors make jokes about active shooter type events and they laugh off the possibility of one happening where I attend school. It's probably worth a reminder that this is an entirely sane attitude. These sort of events are incredibly rare. We're all members of a subculture that likes to be prepared for a specific set of low-probably high-impact problems. People who don't are not necessarily wrong.
Even in our subculture, we probably spend too much time worrying about this sort of risk vs. other violent encounters. When I attended college in an urban center, the odds of an active shooter on campus was very small vs the regular armed robbery of students walking home at night.
I've heard several professors make jokes about active shooter type events and they laugh off the possibility of one happening where I attend school. It's probably worth a reminder that this is an entirely sane attitude. These sort of events are incredibly rare. We're all members of a subculture that likes to be prepared for a specific set of low-probably high-impact problems. People who don't are not necessarily wrong.
Even in our subculture, we probably spend too much time worrying about this sort of risk vs. other violent encounters. When I attended college in an urban center, the odds of an active shooter on campus was very small vs the regular armed robbery of students walking home at night.
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