A suggestion was made above as to how the Israelis handle things.
I recall seeing pics of Israeli teachers escorting their kids around -- with RIFLES strapped to their backs. Think we're gonna see that here, in schools where perhaps 70% (or more) of the teachers lean leftist-communist?
That is a remarkably astute point. They are as a group, in the vanguard of liberalism, and likely have not ever held a gun in their hands.
Here's my suggestion #8 (not in the original article):
Train and arm high a select group of high school seniors who will then carry openly in class. At least they'll be "there", in a position to offer immediate response to an invading shooter.
Got to be careful about who you pick for this work, however.
Probably would do more than anything the author wrote.
I am close to this... I have already opined that schools should offer defensive tactics classes, hunter's safety, restore support for school shooting teams, and such.
My premise remains that as for me and mine, we will ignore laws designed to keep us from protecting ourselves, because, in this precise situation, were I a parent standing helplessly outside that school, I would be greatly comforted that my kid was armed within, and had the education necessary to be responsible with it. And if worst comes to worst, were he to be one of those selected, that he would have the ability and the wherewithal to realize the point of light and darkness, and without hesitation, put a dot in that dude's eye.
The principle at stake is the right of any American citizen to defend himself and others... anywhere, and anytime. The removal of that right is precisely why there is a problem here (and airplanes too, btw)
Had such a thing happened in our day, I can guarantee there'd be thirty redneck boys running out to their trucks
and then running back in. Boys used to all but the shooting back - used to working together in work and hunt, used to dividing into groups with natural leaders already present to command those units... Several of the best shots (and we would all know who they are) would be deployed for a sniper's advantage, and all of that orchestrated (comms included), seat-of-the-pants and ad-hoc, with a very good chance of wrecking the dude before the hut-huts ever even got in their truck to come over.
Perhaps we should bring back prison-like "reform schools" for the dangerous kids (as this shooter certainly demonstrated himself to be, well before he went crazy). Do something dangerous, or make threats to do so, and get committed until you're 18. Then, do it again and go to the grown mens' prison.
Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with military schools, or outright military.
But if we can't go back to 1954 (see above), we're going to have to face up to a hard, bitter reality:
These shootings will continue to happen.
That's about the whole of it. Society has changed to where a small but threatening number of youths have become desensitized and dangerous to others, as was this guy Cruz. Every now and then one is just going to "go off" and do something. Some are going to be impossible to predict.
Then change the society back. This particular facet is entirely due to taking fighting out of the school. Either this is likely to be a bully who was never put down, or one disaffected, because no one ever stood up to the bully. boys need to grow up wit a sense of justice, and the ability to act squarely in its cause. That requires a sense of honor. That requires standing up to be counted. That requires fighting and winning, and fighting and losing. Perhaps that alone, endowed all the way along, would prevent this sort of thing, even as it didn't occur back then. Coddling these children (the good and the bad) and removing initiative and honor is a big portion of the 'why' here.
As I posted yesterday here:
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,304860.msg1610304.html#msg1610304
... this is what "the price of the freedom of gun ownership" has become in today's society, for better or worse. Every now and then, some innocent folks are going to die at the hands of a sudden-lunatic like Cruz. We can try our best to stop them, and we will stop some. But not all. A few (a year) are gonna squirm through the cracks.
Is this price worth paying for the freedom of gun ownership?
What say you?
Oh, hell yes. not even a pittance by comparison. But, in fact, alll of this sort of behavior can be turned around in a decade. Repentance of this way is what is needed. Go back to what works.
