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School killings old, old

Posted on September 3, 2011 | Comments Off on School killings old, old

Think American school shootings, stabbings, and general violence leading to death are a modern phenom? Think again.

Not counting Indian “warrior” raids on schools, first recorded in 1764, the first recorded one was in 1871, in La Grange County, Indiana. There were just six more in the Nineteenth Century.

Then things really picked up. The Bloody Twentieth Century recorded twenty-three before World War II. Fourteen more by 1960. Then a hundred and thirty-two before the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, CO, in April, 1999.

Followed by  a hundred and twenty-six more by Jan. 22 of this year. Whew.

So these things really aren’t new, except in the sense of clothing fashions, i.e. what’s old is new again.

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Fighting back

Posted on October 13, 2006 | Comments Off on Fighting back

"Youngsters in a suburban Fort Worth school district are being taught not to sit there like good boys and girls with their hands folded if a gunman invades the classroom, but to rush him and hit him with everything they got – books, pencils, legs and arms.

"’Getting under desks and praying for rescue from professionals is not a recipe for success,’ said Robin Browne, a major in the British Army reserve and an instructor for Response Options, the company providing the training to the Burleson schools."

It’ll work if they surprise him/her. Hope they’re teaching them some version of situational awareness.

Via Instapundit 

UPDATE  Good advice: "In a school shooting, if you can leave then get out. If not, don’t cower or hide. Fight enough to get out." 

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