actually, there were several teachers who were heroes that day, not only the principal, but Victoria Soto especially. But if you read the events of that day, the entire staff behaved admirably. And saved many small lives - kids who went home to their moms and dads because of these teachers.
Evil? Useless? Vile? no, not at all. In fact they were brave souls who placed their lives LITERALLY on the line. I admire them and hope I would be as brave if I were in that position.
Both "education" unions and administrators are rabid advocates for schools being 'gun free zones.' Teachers, through their union representatives and state education bureaucracies, effected a disproportionate influence to effect policies that put those kids at obviously unreasonable risk. To that degree, they were complicit in their own jeopardy, but more importantly, they are accountable for the jeopardy of other people's children under their authority and responsibility. The result was to make the scale of this massacre or one like it inevitable. They desired authority over other people's children but were unwilling to allow or provide adequate security measures.
That, my dear, is the essence of covetousness: to desire control without assuming REAL responsibility. Covetousness IS evil.
In fact they were brave souls who placed their lives LITERALLY on the line.
Acts of "bravery" are often precipitated by the lack of apparent alternatives. They did the right thing in a crisis, but with limited options. That does not exculpate them for the positions they advocated that put them there.
The teachers and principal who had only their fragile bodies to attempt stopping the killer could be alive had they a gun or two or three..and been willing to USE it without hesitation.
The instant Lanza made a threatening move he should have been shot down but kind of hard to do without the proper tools.
Workplaces can be so safe there is nothing to use as a substitute.The old-fashioned letter opener (think STAB the shooter) has been repleced by a safe little plastic contraption with a guarded blade so you can’t cut anything but an envelope.
And I daresay no one who hasn’t thought about it beforehand would grab even a sharp pencil or ballpoint pen to thrust into the shooter’s eye;because it takes a certain ruthlessness that most find repulsive.People condition to alwyas be nice can hardly fight effectively against as viciuos killer.