There is one point about the concept of arming your children which nobody has addressed.

With the exception of those intensively trained members of organisations such as the military, police FBI, CIA etc., who have actually taken one or more human lives in pursuit of their duties, there are very few normal human beings who can point a gun at a fellow human and pull the trigger.

If Dan arms his children, he can certainly teach them gun safety and handling, but he can't overcome that hesitation inbred in us when it comes to killing a person.

Inevitably the kids will hesitate, but their opponent won't, and then you have the situation described above, in which they die in a hail of bullets, and a lot of others with them. Add in a number of similarly hesitant civilians who don't have proper training and.........well, you work it out.

The body armour of course means that they would have to ignore the rule of aiming for the centre of body mass, and take the much more difficult head shot.

Double?.....Treble?......Quadruple the number of victims?

I seriously doubt that anybody but a cop or a soldier could obtain a successful outcome.

Don T.