Iowans pay the price for Reynolds’ policies

There is a practice in business called Risk Assessment and Mitigation. It can apply to security, business processes, financial issues, etc … Its purpose is to clearly assess what bad things could happen, and ways to minimize, as much as practical, the odds of them actually occurring.

This activity crossed my mind while listening to the response from Kim Reynolds about the latest shooting in Iowa. She’s apparently going to “work with people” to fix a problem she created, with those costs of course being born by us, not her.

Put as many guns as possible into the hands of everyone in the state, let them carry them with no training, registration, or requirement of any kind, then head to the bank with your gun-lobby money.

And when the risk of those actions, easily assessed by any fourth-grader, let alone a governor or legislative member, comes to fruition, push the cost of mitigating that disastrous policy to those who suffer the consequences.

Great work if you can get it. Maybe if Kim and her friends had to pay for the funerals, the extra security infrastructure, the time spent on active shooter drills instead of education, their risk assessment might change. (Right …) Not to mention the completely unquantifiable grief inflicted on families that couldn’t be compensated with all the money in the NRA bank account.

Kim and friends get the payoff, we’re left paying the price. Votes have consequences. Serious ones.

Jim White

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