[KarinG1]

Don't mess with Texas.

[TeenagedConservative]

Hahahaha...can't wait to hear the media and the international community response to this...

[2banana]

And (too bad this is not common or the law) the students could be escaping while the teachers lay down suppressing fire with their legally concealed weapons...

[VeritatisSplendor]

Whoa.

I've already told my children if they hear shooting, or even worse, explosions - judge where they are coming from. If they are coming closer, figure the best way out to head in the opposite direction without exposing themselves - even if it's through a second floor window. Don't stay in the lockdown.

The new high school has two floors with the few small operable windows in each room opening up high. So the instructions have to include breaking a window with a chair now.

But if an attacker is in the room with them - rushing him works a lot better in a group. More power to this school district.

Mrs VS

[Larry Lucido]

Good.

[Larry Lucido]

Goes along with my theory that you don't get in a car at gunpoint. Have it out right there, if you're gonna die anyway.

[LibWhacker]

The fight-back training parallels the change in thinking that has occurred since Sept. 11, when United Flight 93 made it clear that the usual advice during a hijacking – Don't try to be a hero, and no one will get hurt – no longer holds.

A little more parallel thinking like that and, the next thing you know, the 2nd Amendment is going to be back in fashion. Libs are quaking in their Birkenstocks.

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

Perhaps amending "concealed carry" laws to mandate coverage in public schools would help this movement in the direction of sanity. Schools should have "designated" staff members who are trained in counter-intrusion response and armed at all times.

Preference should be given to former military or security force members in selecting staff members for this role.

[bordergal]

Hey, it worked in my local High School. A kid tried to pull a gun on a teacher, and was wrestled to the floor by two male students.

Better then being used for target practice.

[paul51]

I support teaching kids to resist violence and defend themselves however the tactics and weapons have to make sense. Teaching kids to bring pencils and books to a gun fight is not smart.

[NewJerseyJoe]

It's about 'effin time.

[Sender]

This is excellent advice. My wife teaches a class of 32 testosterone-filled high school boys, some of whom are bigger than I am. They could overwhelm a lone attacker just like that. They would probably use their soldering irons and x-acto knives on him, or maybe just hot glue him to the rug.

[joshhiggins]

. ‘‘How much common sense will a student have in a time of panic?''...‘‘You're telling kids to do what a tactical officer is trained to do,"

Thats the whole point. Train them to overcome instead of Panicking.

[festus]

And after sacking the perp the students should be able to have a trial and hang him out front the school as part of their civics lesson.

[Redbob]

"That kind of fight-back advice is all but unheard of among schools, and some fear it will get children killed."

"Some" fear every damn thing, but sitting quietly by didn't work so very well for the kids in Pennsylvania, nor in Columbine, now did it?

The only reason some armed sicko would go to a school is to kill kids, and "some" think defending themselves could make things worse?

"Some" seem to have been shorted when they were handing out good sense...