re: #46 The Ghost of a Flea

My problem with all of these fantasies of an armed society administering personal-serving-sized justice is people have shitty threat recognition. Stress and anger completely skew an individual’s perception and capacity for attribution of intent. Biases in attribution makes the picture even fuzzier.

I think we’ve all lost track of the number of incidents in the local news where a cop made a bad call and shot a kid or an adult because they “looked” like they were brandishing a weapon. Difference is that we expect a cop to be trained to make such calls and when he makes a bad one, to be disciplined by the department. These nutters want teachers to take on the same responsibility, but without the training and with the understanding that if they make a bad call, the ones who will be judging them will be a jury of 12 parents who will want them to pay.