Tuesday, October 16, 2007

OUR INFECTED SCHOOLS








The infection in our schools are killing our kids

By de Andréa

Last Wednesdays shooting at yet another school had a better outcome, than some have in recent memory. No one died at Cleveland’s Success Tech Academy except the perpetrator as it should be. The two students and two teachers he shot are in stable condition at Cleveland hospitals. This infectious disease of insanity will eventually affect every family across this Nation, unless we do something to stop it. Some times the medicine we must endure to cure the disease isn’t always the most tasteful solution

Einstein once said about the definition of “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” More laws do not obviously, prevent more crime, guns however in the right hands, will prevent the massacres of the resent past.

What is depressingly similar to the mass murders at Virginia Tech and Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania and too many others was the killer’s choice of venue — that steadfast declaration of a gun-free zone; the school campus. Although murderer Seung-Hui Cho at Virginia Tech and Asa Coon, the Cleveland shooter were both students reported to have school-related grudges, other school killers have proved to be simply taking advantage; [including the declaration of a gun free zone] of the lack of effective security at schools.

The Bailey, Colorado multiple rapes and murder of September 2006, the Nickel Mines massacre of October 2006, and Buford Furrow’s murderous August 1999 invasion of a Los Angeles Jewish day-care center were all committed by adults. They had no connection to the schools other than being drawn to the soft unprotected target that a schools offer such psychopaths.

Our schools, public and private have become magnets for any random psycho whose thinking has run off the rails of which has come to be regarded as normal sanity.

If one would practice medicine or any other form of protection or defence against a perpetrator such as a bacterial infection the same way we ignorantly attempt to protect our children at schools, it would set us back several hundred years to the time of superstitions, this would now be considered reckless disregard for the appropriate procedure.
Over the years, we have learned to fight the bacterial infection should it attack, with anti-biotics or a weapon that is effective in destroying the dangerous infection, However, with the infection of psychopaths in our sociality we irresponsibility declare schools, (as if it were some kind of protection) a psychopathic free zone. Moreover, we even tell the psychopathic criminal not to worry, by making the declaration that our schools are gun-free zones, that our schools will not be administering a weapon to destroy the invasion of his killer disease

This kind of failed and ignorant philosophy is no different than if one would attempt to ward of disease by superstitiously hanging a sign around ones neck declaring ones body as a disease free Zone, and expecting because one has simply made this declaration, one would be protected. While there may not be any way to stop a bacterium from attacking us if it has the chance, we have learned to, in a timely manner to provide and use the anti-biotic weapon to destroy it when it does. We know the alternative is, just as in the case of the psychopath, that we could be facing certain death.

This latest shooting comes only a few weeks after the American Medical Association released a theme issue of its journal Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. This issue is dedicated to analyzing the April 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, in which 32 people were unnecessarily murdered.
The authors are think tank university officials, trauma surgeons, and legal analysts who pore over the details of the incident, looking for “warning signs” and “risk factors” for violence. They rehash all the tired rhetoric of bureaucrats and public-health wonks, including the public-health mantra of the 1990s that guns are the root cause of all violence, and that we sometimes ignorantly buy into the misconceived philosophy of “if there were no guns, there would be no crime”. Which deceptively teaches that prior to the invention of the gun in the 15th century, crime did not exist. This is of course totally absurd.
Sheldon Greenberg, a dean at Johns Hopkins University, offers this gem, which has actually been proven to be the enabler for these criminal psychopaths: “Reinforce a ‘no weapons’ policy and, when violated, enforce it quickly, to include expulsion. Parents should be made aware of the policy and officials should dispel the politically driven notion that armed students could eliminate an active shooter” (emphasis mine).

Greenberg apparently is ignorant of such cases as the Appalachian School of Law in 2002 another homicidal Virginia student was stopped from shooting more of his classmates when another student held him at gunpoint. The Pearl High School murderer Luke Woodham was stopped cold when vice principal Joel Myrick got his Colt .45 handgun out of the truck of his car, chased down Woodham as he was on his way to yet another part of the school to commit more of the same and pointed it at the young killer. There are hundreds of these successful outcomes to an otherwise disastrous situation simply by fighting fire with fire...
Virginia Tech’s 2005 no-guns-on-campus policy was an abject failure at deterring Cho Seung-Hui. Greenberg’s audacity in ignoring the obvious is typical of arrogant school officials. What the AMA journal authors studiously avoid are on one hand the repeated failures of such feel-good steps as no-gun declaratory policies, and on the other hand the demonstrated success of armed first responders. These responders would be the students themselves, such as the trained and licensed law student, or their similarly qualified teachers.

If guns, would have been carried by qualified CCW permit holders on the aircrafts that were used in the 9/11 terrorist attack, the attack would not have taken place as we no it. Remember UAL flight 93, “let’s roll”… Think about it…
In Cleveland this week and at Virginia Tech the shooters took time to walk the halls, searching out victims in several rooms, and then shooting them. Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Marcella Fierro describes the locations of the dead in Virginia Tech’s Norris Hall. Dead victims were found in groups ranging from 1 to 13, scattered throughout 4 rooms and a stairwell. If any one of the potential victims at Virginia had, as the student in the Appalachian School of Law, used armed force to stop Cho; lives could have definitely been saved.
The people of Virginia actually had a chance to implement such a plan last year. House Bill 1572 was introduced in the legislature to extend the state’s concealed-carry provisions to college campuses. Nevertheless, the bill died in committee, opposed by the usual naysayers, including the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police and the university itself. Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was quoted in the Roanoke Times as saying, “I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students, faculty, and visitors feel safe on our campus.
It is encouraging that college students themselves have a much better grasp on reality than their blind politically correct elders. During the week of October 22-26 Students For Concealed Carry On Campus will stage a nationwide “empty holster” demonstration (peaceful, of course) in support of their cause. (Related article)

School officials typically base violence-prevention policies on irrational fears more than real-world analysis of what works. However, which is more horrible, the massacre that timid bureaucrats fear might happen when a few good guys (and gals) carry guns on campus, or the one that actually did happen despite Virginia Tech’s progressive violence-prevention policy? Can there really be any more debate?
AMA journal editor James J. James, M.D. offers up this nostrum: We must meaningfully embrace all of the varied disciplines contributing to preparedness and response; and be more willing to be guided and informed by the full spectrum of research methodologies. This including not only the rigid application of the traditional scientific method and epidemiological and social science applications, but also the incorporation of observational/empirical findings, as necessary, in the absence of more objective data. Got that?
THE BOTTOM LINE: I prefer the remedy prescribed by self-defense guru Massad Ayoob. When good people find themselves in what he calls “the dark place,” confronted by the imminent terror of a gun-wielding homicidal maniac, the picture becomes clear. Policies and declarations will not help. Another federal gun law will not help. Even calling the police usually results in more of the same, because when seconds count, the police are just too late and a bullet short.
The only solution is a prepared and brave defender with the proper lifesaving tool, in this case the cure is the anti-psychopathic cure; a gun.

de Andréa

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