School teaching kids to fight back gunmen

It figures that an iniative like this would get put forward in Texas. A-hyuck.

Anyway. I don't know about the validity of this idea. If every kid in a class rushes a gunman, it's more than likely that he's going to get apprehend by said kids - but mightn't he pop off a couple of them in a panic, or desperation as they charge him? Heck, what if he takes them all down before they make it to him? That might just make him angrier, and result in more fatalities.

Is this really a better alternative to quiet complacence? Sure, just sitting there means you're essentially at a person's mercy... but usually it's better to take the chance of waiting for someone's rage to die out, rather than raising it higher. That's just me though.

If you were a student, and you were instructed to behave in this manner upon such an even though, would you?

How ya doing, buddy?

There's the idea of working for the greater good too, isn't there? Even if a couple of kids get popped off, if they take the guy down, he can't take out any more people.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I've never heard of a 'school-stabbing'. Do they exist? I figure that you usually have to pick a single target for that... though hearing a story about a kid that held up/butchered a class full of children with a katana would be something interesting...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'm in Canada, and the only stabbing I ever heard about was when in that whole 'Pokemon card' fiasco way back when... other than that, all I hear about in schools is... well, nothing. >>

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