(February 19, 2018 at 12:05 pm)Cecelia Wrote:(February 18, 2018 at 7:39 pm)rskovride Wrote: Maybe if we could encourage students to essentially rush the attacker immediately there might be a hero to get all of the news coverage instead of the attacker. Sam Harris refers to how commercial air line crisis are handled today and posits that similar action during an active shooter situation would save lives. Interesting take on gun control, his podcast here.
Really? You don't think that there are heroes? Victoria Soto threw herself in front of her first grade students in the Sandy Hook massacre. There were countless teachers who got students to safety, and did their best to keep the children calm whose names we don't know. What about Scott Beigel, who got shot getting his students into the classroom, saving their lives? Or Aaron Feis who threw himself in front of his students? Or student Anthony Borges, who shielded fellow students from bullets, taking five himself? That's not to mention the heroes who's stories won't be known, or can't be known because nobody alive saw it happen.
The idea that only those who STOP IT are heroes is not a true sentiment at all. It's easy to say that people should just rush the attacker. That's ignoring the fact that the first priority should be getting students to safety.
Someone without training should NOT rush a heavily armed assailant. Most police officers will tell you this. My dad, a former FBI Agent, would agree whole-heartedly. Rushing these assailants is something left for the movies and television. And expecting that of students who are 14, 15 years old.... really?
The worst thing you can do is to disarm the bad guy and be standing there with his gun in your hands when the thug cops show up. They will immediately kill you, especially if you're a black man. And it's not a good idea to call them in the first place to report a crime if you're a black guy because some thug cop will immediately shoot you as soon as he sees you.
KING: Black Indianapolis man shot by cops after calling police to report robbery
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...-1.2762748
"Few cases typify everything that is wrong with gun rights, police brutality and racial profiling like this one.
Early Tuesday in Indianapolis, an African-American woman was being carjacked in front of her home in her working class neighborhood. She ran back in the house, told her husband, who is also black, and they called the police to report the robbery. That seemed to be the right and safe thing to do.
As the police pulled up, the husband, who was later identified as 48-year-old Carl Williams, opened the garage to their home and was immediately shot in the gut by police."
Now imagine that a black guy was at a school and some white punk started killing kids. The black guy charges the punk and knocks him out and disarms him. The trigger happy cops barge in and sees the black guy standing there over the bloody white punk with the punk's gun. Guess what happens? The black guy gets filled with hot lead and the thug cops take the white killer for a hamburger. Then the chief cop and DA say that the cops "feared for their lives" and that the murder of the black guy was justified because he had a gun pointed at them.
