I'll be back with some thoughts on the latest watering of the Tree of Liberty, but let's get this out of the way first - here's an observation from an old GI:
A
school shooter - hell, almost any "shooter" in a civilian setting - is
pretty much the exact equivalent of an "ambush" in a military setting.
You're
doing the civilian equivalent of diddy-bopping down the trail -
studying, serving macchiatos, shopping - when someone does the
equivalent of blowing the claymore and opens up from the tules and you're caught in the dead center of the kill zone.
You -
unless you're insane-grade paranoid - are completely unprepared both
physically and mentally to respond with quick, accurate, deadly force.
So - like the GIs inside the ambush kill zone - what you pretty much
almost always do is; die.
So
the people who are running this "arm and train" level of bullshit
aren't telling you that to "arm and train" anyone, be it teachers, bank
tellers, grocery clerks, won't do more than provide another target.
Because the
third part that has to follow "arm" and "train" to make a difference - the part that they don't want you to hear - is that these armed and
trained people would have to walk around like a grunt in a weapons-free
ROE combat environment; on the immediate, hair-trigger edge of a violent response to
the slightest hint of danger.
Now think of your fourth-grade teacher being there through the whole fucking school day.
And...seriously?
(Next: To Protect and to...what? Are you fucking nuts..?)
2 comments:
Not to mention that arming teachers, administrators, school 'resource officers' and such will lead to the occasional 'bad day' for one of them. Little Buffy's tantrum with the janitor pushing the math teacher over the edge. It's one thing to hurl a coffee cup and another to reach for Misters Smith and Wesson as a response. Unintended consequences of arming humans in school. What could possibly go wrong?
Absolutely. There's a reason that we spend so much time beating muzzle control and weapons safety into our Joes and Mollies - because every soldier since Ramses' times knows that the most immediately lethal weapon is the one in the hands of the joker right next to you.
The whole "open carry" bullshit runs right up there, too. I've gone into this before, but the whole "armed society is a polite society" horseshit comes from those people who have never lived in an actual armed society. You'll note that Somalians don't say that crap, because they know damn well that giving young men weapons and turning them loose in the street breeds an insane degree of violence. Every argument is an open opportunity for a gunfight.
And that's not to even bring in the ridiculous number of times people shoot themselves or others because they've got a round under the hammer, or they forgot to clear the weapon, or about a million other dumbshit things.
No, it's pure squid-ink. It's an attempt to change the subject from "letting randos walk around with military-grade weaponry is not really a good idea".
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