First Off. No matter how many precautions you take, you can't completely stop things like this from happening.
Some say allowing people to carry handguns would help. Yes, in a way and at the moment. If someone could shoot back, that might help. But, I for one would have to worry when someone gets road rage or mad at someone else.
I would favor classifying people who do stuff like Friday as terrorists and being tried on charges by military courts with a mandatory death sentence. Let the psychology people find out what they need to know, then end it. At least many of the killers do the right thing and kill themselves.
Also, I believe some do this just to leave their mark and get their name in the news. After their identification is known, then it should be they whose name cannot be mentioned. The murderer at Northern Illinois is treated in this way. This morning I was listening to the news on WXRT and Mary Dixon referred to the culprit as killer and not by name.
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Showing posts with label Newtown Connecticut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newtown Connecticut. Show all posts
Monday, December 17, 2012
The Unspeakable Happens in Connecticut
Evil came to Newtown.
Just horrible news from that town on Friday. I first heard about it while on the internet and then that twenty had been killed in a store before I went to a movie.
Horrifying. It especially hit home to us because Liz and I were both teachers. When we started teaching in 1973, this was something that would be inconceivable. Yeah, you might have a junior high kid smoking in the bathroom or maybe drinking alcohol...but never something like this.
In my last years of teaching we had lock down practices. I had to turn out the lights, make sure the door was locked and get my students huddle into a corner of the room that could not be seen by someone looking in through the door window.
I always got in trouble because there was just no way I could squeeze 29 kids into a corner of the room where some of them wouldn't be seen by someone looking real hard into the room. Maybe if I had some on others' shoulders. And, they always picked the practice to be held during my worst class of the day. I could keep them under control fro 15 minutes, but after 45 minutes if would be like a volcano getting ready to blow.
Er have a lot of friends still teaching and that was a big topic of conversation over the weekend.
Just Something I Could Never Imagine.
Just horrible news from that town on Friday. I first heard about it while on the internet and then that twenty had been killed in a store before I went to a movie.
Horrifying. It especially hit home to us because Liz and I were both teachers. When we started teaching in 1973, this was something that would be inconceivable. Yeah, you might have a junior high kid smoking in the bathroom or maybe drinking alcohol...but never something like this.
In my last years of teaching we had lock down practices. I had to turn out the lights, make sure the door was locked and get my students huddle into a corner of the room that could not be seen by someone looking in through the door window.
I always got in trouble because there was just no way I could squeeze 29 kids into a corner of the room where some of them wouldn't be seen by someone looking real hard into the room. Maybe if I had some on others' shoulders. And, they always picked the practice to be held during my worst class of the day. I could keep them under control fro 15 minutes, but after 45 minutes if would be like a volcano getting ready to blow.
Er have a lot of friends still teaching and that was a big topic of conversation over the weekend.
Just Something I Could Never Imagine.
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