I\u2019ll introduce a bill to ban assault rifles<\/a>\u201d line, as boringly predictable as Harold Stassen throwing his hat in the Presidential election ring in the old days. Some people\u2019s egos just can\u2019t let them see that they\u2019re trying to sell something people are too smart to buy.<\/p>\nYet another lesson from that incident goes almost unnoticed.\u00a0 The family of the young man with the broken mind, as soon as they saw signs that he was seriously going to snap, called authorities.\u00a0 LAPD took it seriously.\u00a0 They went to the young man\u2019s apartment, and missed him by only minutes.\u00a0 The miss was not their fault, just a matter of timing and Fate.<\/p>\n
Not long after the Columbine atrocity, a young man at a Catholic high school in Concord, New Hampshire made noises about killing his classmates.\u00a0 The kids he expressed that to took him seriously, and reported him. A search of his locker turned up a stolen .22 revolver and a 500-round brick of ammunition.<\/p>\n
Ideal outcome. No shots fired, no blood on the floor.\u00a0 The kid with the messed-up head got the psychiatric care he needed.<\/p>\n
Why? Within the society of that school, administrators and teachers had fostered an attitude of mutual responsibility for safety.\u00a0 It over-rode the currently widespread \u201cdon\u2019t snitch\u201d mentality. We\u2019ll never know how many lives it saved there\u2026and elsewhere, since that scene has been quietly repeated around the country.<\/p>\n
Your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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