Ambush!!

I was in New Jersey this past week for business, and whenever I'm in the States for business I definitely spend more time watching TV than I do at home in Canada. Instead of reading the paper in the morning I watch the news on television. Yesterday I was packing up to check out of the hotel, but a segment that came on startled me.

In response to all of the school shootings that have been taking place, there's a special group down south that think the best way to protect our students is to train and teach them to fight someone who is looking to come and kill them. Yes... so if some psycho is crazy enough to want to take a gun to a school and start shooting everyone-- will having a class of students fight back ensure that they make it out alive? "They need to get it in their heads that the gunman is there to kill them. They need to fight back to survive" said the program coordinator. Okay his statement is probably half true, but isn't irritating and attacking the gunman going to make him more angry? With tactics such as throwing books at the gunman to shoo him away, heaven forbid I'm out of line for saying this, but I think that's the most retarded shit I've ever heard.

There's a school district that strongly believes this is the route they need to go to prepare their students. Are they on crack? I'd think if students were calm, didn't agitate the gunman anymore than he already was, that maybe there would be better opportunity to calm him down, or for police to take care of it? I know that in a life or death situation it would be difficult to make any rationale decision, but attacking someone with an assault rifle or handgun isn't the way to go.