[BenLurkin]

Let the students carry.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

This is outrageous to teach our children to risk putting their lives in danger.

/liberal soccer mom.

[SteveMcKing]

Oprah will not be pleased.

[keats5]

I think I’ll send our school supervisor this link. It sounds like a good plan to me.

[tsmith130]

I saw a news story about this on TV several months ago. It looks like an excellent program.

[sam_paine]

Flight 93 “Let’s Roll” Bump!

[bobbyd]

bump for later

[mylife]

Leave it to Texans to gettir done

[Doomonyou]

the training course and says it is necessary for students and teachers to throw themselves into the line of fire.

You First, Einstien.

How about having someone in class with a gun?

[RKV]

A pack, not a herd.

[Kolb]

Better yet, allow faculty and staff to carry concealed firearms (with permits of course) and make sure that campus security is armed at all times.

[Balding_Eagle]

We see all the police in their SWAT suits, hiding behind cars and doors and walls, far away from the shooter. All fully armed.

Then we have to imagine the students and teachers, right up close to the shooter. Unarmed. And unarmed under duress.

Has any other civilized society treated it’s young so callously?

[vetsvette]

Miracle of miracles!!

A School with its collective act together!

[MIT-Elephant]

AWESOME! I’ve been waiting for someone to say something like this. Every school in America needs collective-force training to subdue an attacker. Just because they’re unarmed doesn’t make them helpless.

Besides, don’t they want to teach kids that you can make a difference when you work together?

[keats5]

“waiting for police to take control is a deadly mistake”

Nuff’ said.

[skepsel]

‘Bout #$%^&** time!

[MIT-Elephant]

They teach our children that people should have stood up against the Holocaust. Good to see at least one school is actually teaching them how to stand up.

[MIT-Elephant]

“Stephens also says the child who leads the charge is most vulnerable.”

In America, we used to call those kinds of people ‘heroes.’

[outofstyle]

This is very cool. We were discussing this today at work and I made the suggestion that kids could drill for this once or twice a year in gym class. I was roundly ridiculed.

[nonsporting]

A group of Texas security experts with a company called "Response Options" has made instructional video tapes showing a gunman bursting into a classroom and being swarmed by students.

Easy to do in training. Very hard in practice, especially if someone is really shooting at you.

The instructors tell students to throw their books, book bags, desk and chairs using everything and anything to disrupt and take down a gunman.

All of these actions require dangerously close proximity or exposing yourself alone to gunfire. Unless it is a coordinated, simultaneous act, it will not succeed against an armed assailant who dispatches from the doorway (not the center of the room) anyone who approaches.

An armed response is called for.