Safety Isn't Safe

The perils of safety regulations as taught by mere experts have been demonstrated once again in a California classroom, where a teacher trained in weapons use accidentally fired into the ceiling and inadvertently pacified three students. Even in California, teachers are not supposed to carry guns into classrooms without explicit authorisation, and it appears that in this case the authorisation had not been given. Hence, besides displaying the futility of experts, the incident also shows yet again the futility of having rules, since someone with a gun will inevitably break them. On the other hand, if the entire population of the school had been armed to the teeth, the odds would have been greatly in favour of at least one student being quick enough on the draw to neutralise the teacher before he wounded three classmates and the ceiling. Equally, had the teacher not been strenuously trained and qualified in weapons use, he might have been more tentative about the ejaculatory readiness of the weapon he was holding. Guns don't hurt people; what hurts people is knowing stuff.