GOP Rep Shrugs Off Nashville Shooting: ‘We Homeschool’ Our Daughter

MSN ^ | March 29, 2023 | Justin Baragona

[DoodleBob]

...Speaking to reporters hours after a 28-year-old former student shot and killed six people at a private Christian school, Burchett contended that there were no solutions to the ongoing—and uniquely American—plague of mass shootings.

“Three precious little kids lost their lives, and I believe three adults, I believe, and the shooter of course, lost their life too,” he declared. “So, it’s a horrible, horrible situation. And, we’re not gonna fix it.”

Burchett continued: “Criminals are gonna be criminals. And my daddy fought in the Second World War, fought in the Pacific, fought the Japanese, and he told me, he said, ‘Buddy,’ he said, ‘if somebody wants to take you out, and doesn’t mind losing their life, there’s not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.’”

The Tennessee lawmaker was then asked if Congress had any responsibility in the wake of this latest school shooting, prompting Burchett to claim that he and his fellow representatives would only make things worse.

“I don’t see any real role that we could do other than mess things up, honestly, because of the situation,” he replied. “Like I said, I don’t think a criminal is going to stop from guns, you know, you can print them out on the computer now, 3-D printing, and, there’s really, I don’t think you’re going to stop the gun violence.”

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At one point, a reporter asked the GOP lawmaker: “What else should be done to protect people like your little girl from being safe in school?”...“Well, we homeschool her,” he responded with a shrug. “But you know, that’s our decision. Some people don’t have that option and frankly, some people don’t need to do it. I mean, they don’t have to. It just suited our needs much better.”

[DoodleBob]

Rep. Burchett makes an excellent point, even thought he'll get bashed for making it. This comes down to risk-minimization vs elimination.

In investing, you lower your risk of loss or volatility by spreading your eggs across several baskets. However, one risk you cannot diversity away is the "systematic risk" or the risk inherent in the system...call it market risk or whatever, the basic reality is some baseline level of risk will ALWAYS exist, and you can't avoid it.

The same applies to America, her freedoms, and insane acts of violence.

Laws that support, life, liberty, and property are right and proper. Many laws act as a deterrent and will stop people on the margin from doing bad things...this is akin to diversifying away the non-systematic risk. Thus laws criminizing murder, are right and proper.

However, gun control, specifically with regard to school shootings, is targeted at the systematic risk. And what did we say about that risk, kids? Riiiiight....It is unavoidable..

In a nation like America where freedom reigns and the individual trumps the collective, dopey ideas like assault weapon bans, magazine capacity limits, monthly caps on gun purchases do not help. That's because the risk of a maniac going on a killing spree - especially in a school - is non-diversifiable. It is idiosyncratic.

The adults in the room understand on some baseline level, in a relatively free society of 330MM people, you'll always have a few pathological maniacs who will kill. Thus, random acts of violence are the systematic risk of a free society.

Sure, maybe some laws can help, like liberal application of the 2nd Amendment and concealed carry.

Even welding a GoPro to the heads of 330MM people with central monitoring in DC wouldn't stop school shootings. After all, people in jail still get drugs and weapons.

Psychos gonna psycho. THAT is the ugly truth that statists sidestep in these debates. Bravo to Rep Burchett for speaking truth to power.

[JonPreston]

We don’t need charts and clueless shrugs. We need armed men assigned to schools.

[Gen.Blather]

From the questions it was an ambush interview intended to make him look bad. I don’t think he brushed off anything. He just wasn’t giving the answers the reporter wanted.

[RoosterRedux]

The solution is that we need to bring back state-run mental hospitals for those who are mentally incompetent and are threats to society (and that includes transexuals who are determine to be threats to themselves and others).

On top of that, the military, the government, and schools should not recruit/hire people who cannot pass mental incompetency tests.

[MachIV]

Exactly

[Alberta's Child]

I commend this guy for pointing out the obvious. A good first step in addressing this problem is to stop using a silly, infantile term like “first responders” to describe police officers, firefighters and EMTs. Instead, I refer to them as “SECOND responders” … because the people on the scene should see themselves as the FIRST responders.

[pegrae]

You are correct. Complete distortion of what was said.

[ealgeone]

maybe not but they got the gotcha answer.....we homeschool. and he admitted some cannot do that.

he's gonna be branded as being out of touch and elite while not caring about black kids or trans mental cases.

[OKSooner]

Sounds like the ambush was successful from here.

[NetAddicted]

Read later.

[napscoordinator]

No. We need to revert back to when guys brought shotguns to school and left them in the back of the truck. We have put fear in firearms which is how this all began.

[FLT-bird]

He’s absolutely right. If somebody is willing to die to get you, they probably can. Since none of us has a crystal ball to know exactly when and where one of these psychopaths is going to go off, our precautions can only have a limited effect.

We can do things like this school did and have locking doors. Another step would be to have teachers and school administrators be armed. Another would be to be more vigilant in investigating lunatics like Trannies to see if they pose a credible risk of doing something like this....but no matter what we do, it is never going to be foolproof.

[Missouri gal]

Our Christian school is locked with a monitor at each door. Double set of doors allows instant lock for problematic situations. Lockable classrooms. Bulletproof glass on all the windows. Alarms throughout the school.

[Robert DeLong]

uniquely American—plague of mass shootings

Stopped reading with that blatant lie, right off the bat.

[ealgeone]

the only issue I can see with armed teachers is what happens when a tranny is a teacher. now the fox is in the henhouse.

[Tupelo]

Over ten years ago, I listened as the former sheriff (a man I voted for twice) dismissed as kinda silly a suggestion that just might work and could be implemented with minimum cost.

Cops and other ‘first responders’ do a lot of paper work during and at the end of shift. So why not put a desk & computer terminal in every school, public & private. The officer,deputy or others drop in to the schools at odd times, leaving a well marked car in the parking lot.
I suspect that might discourage most school shooters.
Not a perfect solution, but I think it deserves more than just a laughing off as I saw in that meeting years ago.

[riverrunner]

Does it have armed staff.

[bankwalker]

Teachers don’t actually need to be armed, but the public should know that teachers have the right to be armed. A potential attacker would treat that situation totally different than a gun-free zone.

[JonPreston]

We need to revert back to when guys brought shotguns to school and left them in the back of the truck.

LOL!

[kinsman redeemer]

You are exactly right. Here is how the story reads:

At one point, a reporter asked the GOP lawmaker: “What else should be done to protect people like your little girl from being safe in school?”...“Well, we homeschool her,” he responded with a shrug. “But you know, that’s our decision. Some people don’t have that option and frankly, some people don’t need to do it. I mean, they don’t have to. It just suited our needs much better.”

Once again, the headline doesn't line up with the story. The power of the press!