[Joe 6-pack]

"Now, I've been around teachers a long time. They don't have it in them to aim at a student and kill him."

Prior to pursuing education as a career, my 8th Grade History teacher and wrestling coach had worn a highly distinctive, green colored, slightly flattened headwear item. He apparently had looked so good in it that he was invited to SE Asia to show it off. I still remember him going over his classroom rules on the first day of class. "If I catch two of you fighting, I'm going to break it up right there and keep you after school. At that time you'll finish the fight, and the loser will get detention."

The man became a role model for me, and eventually our High School principle. Now, some 20+ years later I still look him up when I get back home.

I have no doubt that he'd "have it in him," to ventilate any student shooter.

[wbill]

About a week into my freshman year, the new guidance counselor broke up a fight in the lunchroom. One of the fighting kids made the mistake of taking a swing at him. Counselor put him in a headlock and when the kid still struggled, the counselor did what looked like a WWF move and put him on the floor. It really looked like it hurt.

The Guidance counselor was not ever tested again while I was in school.

Nowadays, teachers get prosecuted for not saying "May I please" when they give a kid detention. People like your principal and my guidance counselor just aren't around anymore, and the schools are all the worse for it, IMHO.

[Captain Rhino]

Agree.

All my male high school teachers were veterans of WWII and the Korean War. I have not doubt they would have done what needed to be done. They wouldn't have liked it but they would not have hesitated, that's for sure.

Of course, it would not have ever crossed our adolescent/young adult minds to do such a thing to start out with.

Things have changed and not for the better.

[Pablo64]

Exactly. Now that we've had the examples of Columbine and Virginia Tech, no one is going to stand around and think that a shooter with a gun is going to necessarily stop shooting until they are stopped by someone. Prior to those two events, I could understand a teacher (or anyone) frozen in dumbfound disbelief at a student going on a shooting rampage, but now we know it is a reality and I believe there are many teachers who would act to put a stop to a slaughter, even if it meant drawing down on a student.