Bravo Venus!!!Venus Pax wrote:A few of my students asked me today, "Miss, what do we do if somebody comes to the school and starts shooting people?" (I got similar questions from students after 9/11.)
I looked at them and told them to fight with everything in them. I reminded them that I will not condone them fighting one another on campus, but that if an attacker enters the school and is threatening their lives, then I want them to fight.
One boy asked, "Well what do we use, a desk? Do I throw a desk at him?"
I told him to throw everything they had at the person to subdue him. (I say him, since I'm not familiar with any female school shooters. When we ladies get upset about something, we prefer to eat a half gallon of Blue Bell.)
We discussed 9/11, and how Flight 93 passengers responded when they found out the intentions of the hijackers. My students seemed relieved to have my blessing on their innate reflex to fight back when attacked.
This is where it needs to start...
It is not a fatalistic stance to take in a situation like this...It certainly is a challenge, but if you get shot in the process, there is no guatrantee you are going to die...There is certainly a guarantee that you stand a good chance if you cower and assume a fetal position in the face of a deadly threat...
You must gauge your response to a situation based upon your own internal gut wrenching sensibilities...You're either going to die fighting, possibly, or die cowering, doing nothing...
It is a hard lesson to learn, you are either going to accept the reality or deny it...
Denying it has obviously not gotten us very far...Us meaning the gun-control crowd...