But perhaps most importantly,<\/p>\n

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1. Lots of people at all levels of the response acted poorly. In the right-wing vernacular, they were \u201cbad guys.\u201d There was profiteering by insurance companies, by builders, by suppliers, by bureaucrats, by agencies, by leaders and even by some claimants. There was stinginess by the government, by contractors and others. The response was far short of the need. When you combine inadequate policies with inadequate people implementing them, you have a series of new disasters that follow the initial disaster.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

   So, while gun advocates might say that the \u201cgood guys\u201d with guns need to be further empowered, others might say that we need more \u201cgood guys\u201d to be engaged in public and private decision-making and the implementation of mandates. But here we get to a new list of two problems:<\/p>\n

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   1. Who the hell are the \u201cgood guys\u201d and who are the \u201cbad guys,\u201d not only about carrying guns, but about weaving the overall fabric of our society?<\/li>\n
   2. If we need more effective people to help us have better responses to disasters and non-disasters alike, how do we identify them? How do we attract the \u201cbest and the brightest\u201d amongst us to carry out important societal decisions?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      We seem to always come up short. I would submit that the problem is that there just aren\u2019t enough \u201cgood guys and women\u201d among us. If our society was a sports team, we would be in desperate need of rebuilding. It wouldn\u2019t be just a rebuilding year, but at least a rebuilding decade.<\/p>\n

      Our main problem is that critical thinking is at such a low premium. Somehow, some way, we must try to aggregate those among us who can think critically and who also can empathize to find ways to increase their numbers.<\/p>\n

      I always think that starts in our schools. When our schools place more focus on critical thinking and empathy, we will then be better at responses to disasters, and a lot more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Those who favor gun rights and oppose gun control like to divide people into two categories, the \u201cgood guys\u201d and the \u201cbad guys.\u201d Looking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,661,128],"tags":[3145,169,3146],"yoast_head":"\n