WANTED: A CULTURE OF SELF DEFENSE (M. MALKIN)

townhall.com ^ | April 18, 2007 | Michelle Malkin

[finnsheep]

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=wanted_a_culture_of_self-defense&ns=MichelleMalkin&dt=04/18/2007&page=2

There's no polite way or time to say it: American colleges and universities have become coddle industries. Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregated dorms, politically correct academic departments and designated "safe spaces" to protect students selectively from hurtful (conservative) opinions -- while allowing mob rule for approved leftist positions (textbook case: Columbia University's anti-Minuteman Project protesters).

[finnsheep]

This is fine as far as it goes, but when you think about it - - only three people gave any resistance to the shooter. One was the professor who had been thru the Holocaust and survived to give his life for his students and apparently suggested that his students jump out of the windows and the two men who held a long table against the door of their classroom to keep the shooter out.

This was a Flight 93 situation as it turned out. I don't know the circumstances, obviously, but it makes you wonder when a dozen or more people are shot with a handgun in the room with you that nobody thought to launch themselves at the shooter. Since this was a building where mostly engineering classes where held, one might think most of the people taking the classes were males?

[P-40]

only three people gave any resistance to the shooter.

Today is Wednesday; the shooting happened Monday. Aside from media babble, which tends to run 80% BS and 20% inaccurate ramblings, not much is known about what happened.

[hophead]

Look at my post of 4-16-07 here. Look at some of the comments that vilified me for asking the question,
“Did anyone fight back?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818386/posts

I am glad I was not the only one to ask.

[Tulane]

This was a Flight 93 situation as it turned out.

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I disagree...The heroes on Flight 93 were held captive in a plane about a mile up in the air. They had no chance to run, their only shot was to take the cockpit.

The poor souls at VA Tech could run/jump out the window/ etc. Big difference. They should not be judged in the same light as the folks on F93....

[socialismisinsidious]

I have to say that this ran through my mind too. No one throwing chairs or waiting behind a door to club him one, no one charging the guy....it may come out that some tried. Hard to say what the first reaction would be without having ever been in this kind of situation, but one would think that some would fight over flight.

[Candor7]

This is fine as far as it goes, but when you think about it - - only three people gave any resistance to the shooter>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

We are fast becoming un Americanized.

We should be helping each other, even in the face of death.

I am so proud of those who did. I feel sorry for those who died like sheep. I feel sorry about any such deaths.

Look:

There is no such thing as a gun free zone. What that means is that only the criminal, or hate filled insane will have guns in such a zone.

We need to get back to trusting each other in America. That trust needs to extend to trusting each other to conceal carry guns.

Thats all there is to it.

Any one who says otherwise is a carnage enabler. VT proved that.