Monday, April 20, 2009

How to protect yourself from the Columbine Shooter

Daniel White has an excellent article at the Examiner.com entitled Ten years after Columbine, we still haven't learned real lessons. With so many anti-gun rights articles marking the occasion, White takes the various arguments apart and shows that they would have made little difference to the outcome. He then offers a counter proposal of his own:

After the Ma'alot school massacre in Israel in 1974, policies were changed and armed individuals, whether administrators, teachers, or parent volunteers, became prepared to ensure future potential murderers were stopped in their tracks. Armed resistance saves lives. Experts say an active shooter can take an average of one life every 15 seconds. Even with a five minute police response time, that's twenty lives lost. An armed guard is better than nothing, but is likely to be taken by surprise as the first casualty. An armed administrator or teacher remains anonymous and can quickly respond to an active shooting and begin to save lives.

What a novel idea. Now that's change we can believe in.

Note: Digg again wouldn't let me link to this article in the normal way. I am trying something new. I wonder if liberal bloggers have the same trouble?

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