"HeyBub" wrote in message news:md-
harry wrote:
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As recent events have
proved, a handgun can be a pretty effective weapon against a large
crowd of people. I wish schools had enough guts to teach kids not to
run from shooters in the classroom, but to rush the shooter and
attempt to immobilize him and the gun. That's what the Secret
Service is trained to do. It's how Colin Ferguson, the LIRR shooter
was stopped.
--
Bobby G.
"Go for?". You ARE mad.
Uh, no. Rushing the "position" or the shooter is the universal tactic of
every army the world has ever known. It's been proven by experience over
thousands of years.
Quite true. Just ask the ghost of Sgt. Alvin York. His Medal of Honor
citation reads:
After his platoon suffered heavy casualties and 3 other noncommissioned
officers had become casualties, Cpl. York assumed command. Fearlessly
leading 7 men, he charged with great daring a machine gun nest which was
pouring deadly and incessant fire upon his platoon. In this heroic feat the
machine gun nest was taken, together with 4 officers and 128 men and several
guns.
I just can't help but wonder how many kids could have been saved at Virginia
Tech if they had been drilled to rush the shooter, not pile up at doors that
he had chained locked beforehand. I personally would rather die being shot
trying to disarm the shooter to save myself and others rather than in the
back trying to run away from a bullet traveling at a speed that even the
faster runner can't outrun.
The VA tech students ended up doing the absolute worst thing you can do in
that situation: piling up in one place with their backs to the shooter - it
makes an incredibly easy target. Rushing the shooter and presenting him with
fast moving, approaching targets from multiple directions that are capable
of seizing his weapon is the best course of action. The shooter should
never had time to reload. To react properly requires training which sadly
would not be politically possible and won't be until perhaps the fourth or
fifth such massacre, and maybe not even then.
Sometimes, though, people do the right thing, even if they pay the ultimate
price. For instance, the heroes of flight 93 ("let's roll") died rushing
the cockpit and overwhelming the terrorists. Yes, they all died, but they
saved countless other people on the ground with their sacrifice.
http://www.unitedheroes.com/
http://pittsburgh.about.com/od/fligh...passengers.htm
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Bobby G.