by Pine Journal
County schools react to shootings in Connecticut
December 20, 2012 at 8:28 pm in Pine Journal
Esko School Superintendent Aaron Fischer said he lives with the specter of school violence on a daily basis.
“When events such as last week’s mass shootings in Connecticut happen, people are obviously concerned about it,” he said, “but it’s one of my concerns all the time, every single day.”
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I listened to the full speech of the NRA response to the killings. It made perfect sense as did the suggestions that our schools need to be protected in the most rigorous way possible without compromising the educational process. It might take a little more courage that the general public possesses to have an armed security person trained to respond with a gun to something of this nature. It is almost a a statistical certainty that it will never happen but as we can see in hindsight, it could happen. The underpaid staff at that school showed great courage in the face of a brutal madman. At the very least we need security personnel . In school districts where the parents cannot wrap their minds around the thought of security personnel armed with a gun, there are highly effective devices that are less that lethal that that could be brought to bear in that situation. The adults who were killed showed more that enough courage to at least to have been able to use less than lethal weapons to fight back. They had no weapon to fight back with and fought regardless of their own lives. The monster who did this did not look like a fit or physically robust individual. What if that principal had had less than lethal pepper stray or some other robust system to confront the situation that took her life. It doesn’t have to be an in your face military style solution but its a problem that need a serious, grown up, thought out solution.
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