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A Delaware School Shooting Now:How Do Universities Teach When They Will Not Learn? |
| September 21st, 2007 John Longenecker |
| A credibility issue mistaken as a safety issue. As most of my readers know, I do not write for gun owners, but specifically for the Non-gun owners. What do 80 million gun owners know that non-gun owners don't know? Self-defense is not an opinion or a side of the aisle, it is a life skill. A totally non-partisan survival skill. It is this which is deliberately ignored by officials on their political say-so backed by force. Though a household may plan for root canal, unemployment, illness or car accident – how the household will meet and even survive criminal violence is the most neglected area of household management. This, of course, extends to family members away from home, as in workplace or school campus. You do not check your citizen authority at the Admissions Office. When will they learn? Workplace or campus bans of personal weapons gives the shooter an enormous tactical advantage, and acts to the detriment of the students and workers. We will never stop the next school shooter – or any school or workplace shooters – by psychoanalyzing or profiling them, giving them time and opportunity, but by better preparing the target to respond immediately. Disarming students means waiting for someone to arrive. It means waiting for someone else to protect you or get kicked out of school. All the profiling is nothing more than a stalling tactic to avoid the obvious: arming students and workers as they choose in order that they operate on their citizen authority when facing grave danger in the absence of first responders. This defect and refusal to learn is emphasized by the fact that Dover cannot locate the shooter at the time of this piece. Keep trying. Citizens play a vital role in crime control, and excluding citizens from the process is dangerous on so many levels. This is what the campuses need to comprehend; when it comes to school shootings, it's a further concentration of power in the hands of officials who exclude the citizen to the citizen's detriment. Dependency. Forced dependency on officials is what officials live for. What campuses refuse to acknowledge is that their obnoxious exclusions, penalties and abuses of power have been only to the detriment of the students. When they insist on presiding over continuing tragedy, you'd think they want to hold the next Shooter's coat. Disarming willing students is to force all to choose between felony or funeral. Virginia Tech chose funeral for 32 of its students. Delaware State is a late arrival. Citizen Authority prevails, or it should. Why does a University hide this? Why quarrel with constituents? Why punish with expulsion? Do you understand now how officials cannot teach until they learn? It's a credibility issue represented as a safety issue to hide who is really in Authority: YOU. ALL GUN CONTROL OBFUSCATES CITIZEN AUTHORITY TO ACT. It punishes it, too. Campuses have to learn that they are in charge only so far as the people authorize them - this means that student [citizen] authority trumps that of the servants who serve us. Recast, repeal or rewrite that delegated authority and you begin to solve your campus shooter problem. As I say often: gun control and gun bans affect non-gun owners when all constituents begin to fear their public servants more than they fear murderous criminals. The student is then held hostage by both. Very American. We're all held hostage this way. Isn't this what it comes down to? Felony or funeral (or expulsion)? The education is that our Independence and individual authority can protect students better than Administrators can. Remember that if you think the cost of a good education is expensive, try the cost of ignorance. Or of official stubbornness. It is paid for in lives. It's time for officials to be much more faithful to the students and to their oath -- even if it has to be litigated. |
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