The Resistance: Teaching common-sense school protection
Dave Kopel at National Review - good, practical, ideas for dealing with school shootings. Allow teachers to carry concealed handguns, and train everybody to resist or run away instead of playing willing victim. [geekwitha.45]
Some people who do not like the idea of teachers being armed to protect students simply get indignant, or declare that armed teachers are inconsistent with a learning environment. I suggest that dead students -- and the traumatic aftermath of a school attack -- are far more inconsistent with a learning environment than is a math teacher having a concealed handgun.
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Our nation has too many people who are not only unwilling to learn how to protect themselves, but who are also determined to prevent innocent third persons from practicing active defense. A person has the right to choose to be a pacifist, but it is wrong to force everyone else to act like a pacifist. It is the policies of the pacifist-aggressives which have turned American schools into safe zones for mass murderers.
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