They will NEVER forget that lesson.
And personally, I'd rather see a few teachers have their backsides get stung and their precious egos get bruised than see a classroom full of Beslan-style carnage because of stupid, stubborn libs who made the kids "die in place" because they didn't know how - or refused to learn how - to take action.
We live in a different world now. This isn't the same world any of us grew up in.
There are people amongst us now that contemplate murder every day - The same people that flew airliners into the WTC; the same people that murdered all of those Russian school children in Beslan. Or just some nutcase that wants to cause pain and horror for the thrill of it or because he's mad at the world.
To pretend that threat doesn't exist, and NOT take active, pre-emptive measures to try to prevent - or in the event of an actual situation, to mitigate further slaughter - is criminally negligent.
Our children are forced by law to be in these schools for x number of hours a day; those people are responsible for the childrens' safety - THEY are the "First Responders", and if they aren't taught or trained HOW to respond in an emergency/active shooter situation, well, then you have the potential for Beslan.
We protect banks better than we protect school children. And that is criminal to me. It should be criminal to everyone.
I'm ALL IN on armed security at schools. Whatever it takes.
As far as warning them first... no active shooter is going to warn them. The shock value is a lesson all it's own.
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Exactly! Children are in government schools by “force of law”!
To enforce a law the government uses the threat of armed police, courts, and prison. If a person is sufficiently resistant the government will kill him. THAT is what a law is. That is what compulsory government schooling is!
This is why I say, “Behind every government school teacher stand armed police, courts, and prison.” (Real bullets in those guns on the hip!)