“Chances are, you’re never ever going to have to use this. If you do, it’s gonna be scary,” Kate Carleton told the 20 or so 8- and 9-year-olds. “But because we’ve taught you what to do, it makes it a little less scary.”
She spent the next 30 minutes teaching them how to stop a wound from bleeding out.
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Although a child dying at school in a mass shooting may be unlikely, a child dying from a gunshot is not. Firearms are the leading cause of death among people 18 and younger in the US, accounting for nearly 19% of all childhood deaths.
Also, earthquakes and fires aren’t something that can be stopped through legislation.
What CAN be done about both of those things is to mandate building codes to minimize the risk.
Perhaps we could apply a similar concept to guns…
The US government was able to pressure God off the whole polygamy rules in Mormonism.
I think we could do the same for earthquakes and fires.