{"id":2039,"date":"2012-12-15T07:56:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T11:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2012-12-15T07:56:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T11:56:24","slug":"against-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/against-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"AGAINST MONSTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The atrocity at the Connecticut elementary school will not be the last such horror, nor was it the first or even the worst.\u00a0 Go back to the year 1764, in what is now Franklin County, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 The first: during Pontiac\u2019s Rebellion in the wake of the French and Indian War, four \u201cwarriors\u201d entered a schoolhouse and slaughtered the headmaster and some ten children.\u00a0 http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pontiac%27s_Rebellion_school_massacre<\/a> . The worst: in 1927, a crazed monster beat his wife to death, then triggered a bombing in an elementary school in Bath, Michigan, killing some 38 kids and several adults. http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bath_School_disaster<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll repeat what I said in the Wall Street Journal <\/i>op-ed section and on the Today <\/i>show in 1999, after the Columbine High School atrocity: if we simply prepared teachers to handle this type of crisis the way we teach them to handle fires and medical emergencies, the death toll would drop dramatically.\u00a0 We don\u2019t hear of mass deaths of children in school fires these days: fire drills have long since been commonplace, led by trained school staff, not to mention sprinkler systems and smoke alarms and strategically placed fire extinguishers that can nip a blaze in the bud while firefighters are en route.\u00a0 In the past, if someone \u201cdropped dead,\u201d people would cry and wring their hands and wail, \u201cWhen will the ambulance get here?\u201d Today, almost every responsible adult knows CPR; most schools have easily-operated Automatic Electronic Defibrillators readily accessible; and a heart attack victim\u2019s chance of surviving until the paramedics arrive to take over is now far greater.<\/p>\n

The same principle works for defending against mass murders\u2026it just doesn\u2019t work HERE, because it is politically incorrect to employ it HERE.\u00a0 After the Ma\u2019alot massacre in 1974, Israel instituted a policy in which volunteer school personnel, parents, and grandparents received special training from the civil guard, and were seeded throughout the schools armed with discreetly concealed 9mm semiautomatic pistols.\u00a0 Since that time, there has been no successful mass murder at an Israeli school, and every attempt at such has been quickly shortstopped by the good guys\u2019 gunfire, with minimal casualties among the innocent.\u00a0 Similar programs are in place in Peru and the Phillippines, with similarly successful results.<\/p>\n

Some people see the logic in the Israeli approach. Dave Workman does, as seen here: http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/obama-wants-action-regardless-of-politics-after-gun-free-school-zone-tragedy?cid=db_articles<\/a> .\u00a0 Ann Coulter does, as seen here: http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/media\/column-post\/newtown-school-shootings-ann-coulter-makes-her-case-concealed-carry-laws-69361<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, in this country, logic has been buried under political correctness.\u00a0 Those in power whose ego is invested in brie et Chablis <\/i>values that include scorn for the peasantry they accuse of \u201cclinging to guns and Bibles\u201d will never see that logic.\u00a0 Children will continue to die in gun-free zones\u00a0 <\/span>hunting preserves for psychopathic murderers, and the cowardly murderers will continue to surrender or kill themselves as soon as armed good guys show up\u2026far too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The atrocity at the Connecticut elementary school will not be the last such horror, nor was it the first or even the worst.\u00a0 Go back to the year 1764, in what is now Franklin County, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 The first: during Pontiac\u2019s Rebellion in the wake of the French and Indian War, four \u201cwarriors\u201d entered a schoolhouse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}