"Advice to Victims"

12 June 09 Comments on "advice to victims," from a college professor at a large, state university: "Just one year ago, university administrators, and the media, were insisting that we offer no resistance whatever to violent criminals. We were advised to 'speak to the shooter in a calm voice' ...ad nauseam. I noticed a stark change in my school's web page within the last six months. Here is the current advice: 'When the gunman starts shooting people, you need to make a choice: (1) stay still and hope he doesn't shoot you, (2) run for an exit while zig-zagging, or (3) attack the shooter. All foregoing options are dangerous, but certainly no more so than doing nothing. A moving target is harder to hit than a stationary one, and the last thing the criminal will expect is to be attacked by an unarmed person. Any option chosen may still result in a negative consequences.' I'm sure that last sentence was inserted at the insistence of the university attorney! While still scrupulously avoiding the subject of being armed and trained yourself and thus skillfully and assertively engaging active-murderers with gunfire, at least our administrators are (reluctantly, I'm sure) starting to face reality, instead of contemptuously ignoring it, as they've done up until now." Comment: It is indeed refreshing to see this movement (albeit slight) in the philosophy of those who consider themselves "social elite" and media stooges who slobber at their feet. Some are willing to patiently wait for dithering politicians to confront the foregoing and finally get around to addressing the notion that our lives are actually important, and thus make it legal for CCW license holders to carry on campus. Others of us are not! /John