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Israel Has Only Had 2 School Attacks in 44 Years, Here's How They Make Sure Their Kids Are Safe

"... [T]here have only been two successful attacks at Israeli schools since 1974, according to Dr. Ted Noel,... 'in both cases, the bad guys were killed by armed teachers.'"

"... Ministry of Education funds school security, which ranges from shelters and fences to armed and trained guards at every gate.

To take it a step further, Israel also prepares its students and teachers for the slight chance a gunman does get through security by teaching them to be proactive in times of terror by barricading a door or sensing the ripe opportunity to get away safely...."

The Solution to Preventing School Shootings Is Easy, and Many Are Not Going to Like It

"...If you want to stop school shootings from occurring, put guns in the school. Hire armed off-duty police or ex-military, and allow them to wander the halls of the school. Should a shooter be stupid enough to wander in and begin attempting to slaughter the innocent, then Darwin will have his day, and one less idiot set on doing evil will exist on this plane.

Or do what other schools have done, and begin training and arming teachers. Argyle ISD in Texas has begun arming its faculty, and there is a training school in Colorado that teaches the teachers how to use a gun and deal with school shooters with deadly force instead of just running and hiding.

Stepping back from the obvious heartbreak of the loss of the lives of children and young adults is difficult, but pure logic dictates that in order to stop an aggressor, you need an aggressor. A school defenseless is not a safe one. A gun-free zone isn’t at all safe if the only people respecting the rule have no intention to use a gun. I wish those who present no danger to anyone were safe from harm, but that’s not how the world works. You have to be as ready to deal death in defense as the killer is to do so in cold blood...." (emphasis added)

Steny's detestable, but he's right.

But for the wrong reasons. And, candidly, Deplorables should be against arming teachers on empirical grounds.

As I wrote earlier, who gets to pick the teachers that'll pack heat?

Will it be some school board-designated committee (because we know how they LOVE justice)?

Will it be union goons?

Maybe it'll be the librarian who just added a bunch of Antifa books to the catalog.

Maybe it'll be this Fearless Lady.

Or that collection of sex ed specialists pushing the latest claptrap on children.

It sure won't be the parents, who are "domestic terrorists" in the eyes of the DOJ.

I'll go a few steps further....let's say some leftist agitator-teacher who did 4 years in the Army's is deemed "competent." He sees a bunch of conservative students and monitors their online activity, decides they're a threat because they wrote "Let's Go Brandon" and FJB and posted pictures of them at gun shows on Instagram, and draws his weapon on them in class and calls the cops.

He will argue (and, I submit to you, be supported in the press and by the school board vociferously) that he stopped a possible disaster. The parents of these students will sue, the NEA will protect the teacher at all costs, the parents will spend thousands on legal fees and their kids will be doxxed and have a hard time getting in to college or trade school.

The teacher will keep his job and become a celebrity for 20% of this nation, and be loathed by 30-40% of the Deplorables. The remainder/ballast will waffle. Meanwhile, another school shooting will happen because that's part of the systematic risk in a free nation.

For a nation like Israel where the citizenry has experienced this palpably, and where the threat is probabilistically high (way higher than in America), it seems to work. I also suspect "competence" isn't as politically defined in Israel. Israel isn't America, and America isn't Israel, just like adopting the gun control policies of Europe won't work here.

In contemporary America, this is a nice idea on paper. In practice it'll fail, because the local government and DOJ will make the call on "competency." And then this guy will carry...

Viable options include Homeschooling and private schools. But as long as in loco parentis reigns supreme, this is a futile situation.