The NRA Solution.

As much as I don’t like making fun of the criminally insane I’d like to analyse the logic of the NRA. So they put a ‘good’ gunman in every school. I calculate there must be around sixty thousand schools in the US so sixty thousand highly trained guys must be on high alert, fingers on triggers 6 hours a day 5 days a week 30 weeks a year to be there that one day in 7.5 million man/days per year to stop one guy causing carnage in a school, and who is likely to take the good gunman out first with a high powered assault rifle with telescopic sights and silencer. This constant state of threat will, in a small percentage of these noble defenders, cause them to become terminally bored after 427 days of futile vigilance and not see the bad gunman coming. And another small percentage say 0.05%, will become terminally paranoid and, given their love of shooting guns, will themselves run amuck in their own classrooms. 0.05% by the way would be 30 insane highly trained fully armed gunmen in schools. To stop the possibility of a tragedy happening it will be prudent if not essential to supply a second good gunman to watch the first. That should fix it and as a by-product help unemployment stats, and if one good gunman was in a bullet proof shelter while the other one patrolled it would stop a bad gunman taking out the good gunmen first with a high powered assault rifle with telescopic sights and silencer. That really would provide for all eventualities. Oh no wait. That would leave the good patrolling gunman on his own so if he became terminally paranoid whilst on patrol there would be no one there to stop him! OK that’s easily fixed. So there needs to be three highly trained fully armed gunmen per school, that’s 180,000 in total, two patrolling together while one stands guard in a bullet proof shelter. Finally we have a solution. And if we do find we need a fourth highly trained fully armed gunmen to watch the gunman on his own in the bullet proof shelter we’ll know exactly what to do. So the NRA aren’t so dumb after all. They’ve thought it through.