How to Stop School Shootings

The recent mass school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School is cause for great dole and a legitimate cause for radical action. But what action?

The knee jerk response from today's "left" is serious gun control. Limit guns to government agents. On the surface they have a point. As John Adams stated centuries ago "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." While we aren't as Post Christian as Western Europe, we are working on it. Children walk around with portable pornographs and our adulterous President has been known to use four letter words in his speeches.

And we are not as sane as we used to be. We have an explosion in mental health issues in the younger generations. The autism explosion is real. All you have to do is look for examples of college age people shrieking and having toddler-level temper tantrums upon hearing ideas that don't fit their worldview. This is not an ideological phenomenon. Go back 40+ years and the ACLU was defending the right of Nazis to parade. Some of my fondest moments from my college years consisted of recreational debate with the campus' farthest leftists. When I was active in the Libertarian Party of Buncombe County I had many delightful beer sessions with the local Progressives. I even made some progress convincing them that excessive government regulation was giving Walmart a competitive advantage over local businesses.

Democracy, including the ultimate democracy of the Second Amendment, requires the ability to peacefully engage with opposition, and seek the common ground. If a substantial minority is subject to spazz-outs and mass shootings reconsidering true democracy is in order.

I prefer restoring a sane by default society, but finding the source of our explosion of insanity will take time, and it won't fix those already broken. Is it the loss of recess caused by No Child Left Behind? Is it video games? Is it giving amphetamines to boys who won't sit still? Is it food dyes? Corn fed meat? Foods cooked in plastic? Excess use of herbicides (no till agriculture)? Brains jiggled by microwaves? Smart phones? Too many early vaccines? Demonic possession due to the decline of sincere Christianity?

The Science isn't settled but the effects are incontrovertible. It's not just a drift in the definition of autism. I grew up around old school definition autism as a child. I knew precisely zero students in school who displayed symptoms similar to my sister. Ditto for undergraduate college. I did know some people who came close to being autistic in physics grad schools, but even there it was more a matter of extreme introversion than the tantrums, social oblivion, and self stimulation I saw growing up -- or even the extreme literal thinking portrayed in the movie Rain Man which portrayed an outlier case of nearly functional autism.

Mass quantities of semi-functional autistic people is a new phenomenon. Couple it with trans propaganda and over the top political rhetoric and you get violence.

Given this explosion of dangerous insanity and immorality, turning over the right to bear arms to the experts makes sense -- except for something called Recent Overwhelming Evidence. The previous administration was theoretically headed by a man who was obviously senile from the start. And his handlers went all in endorsing insanity and demanding that you bow down to every aspiring Emperor Norton. Our mainstream media demanded that you ignore the billions of dollars of damage caused by insane terrorists and condemn anyone who defended their property as a murderous Nazi.

In Western Europe the situation is even worse. Noticing crime can get you worse sentences than committing heinous crimes. And just look at the last Eurovision music contest. It was a full on celebration of satanism.

The Long Term Solutions

By any metric, half the population is below median -- by definition. Deal with it. The very title of "No Child Left Behind" is dangerous idiocy. When it comes to academic skills, talents vary by orders of magnitude. Deal with it. Ruining childhood in a vain attempt to make everyone college material is cruelty and humiliation which justifies bullying.

Kids need recess. Don't ruin early childhood in order to cram in academic skills before they are ready. Yes, some kids are ready to start reading while they are still in a high chair. I was one of them. Others aren't ready until they are seven. My grandfather was the latter and went on to get an engineering degree.

Recognize that most people aren't college material, but they can be valuable members of society and can lead the good life, and even think Deep Thoughts comparable to the ancient philosphers later in life after they have had life experience. A 75 IQ garbage man contributes more to society than a commie sociology professor with a 140 IQ. Cut the academic snobbery.

Yes, let the smart kids excel. Geniuses are sometimes very useful. But don't rub the normies noses in shame for being normal. If a C grade means average, it should not be a badge of shame. Most people are kind of normal. Teach accordingly. Teach enough history that they can practice self-government. Teach life skills. Teach jobs skills so that they can get married and start a family while the hormones are high enough for true romance and their bodies are healthy enough to bear kids without the benefits of mad science.

GPA is an evil concept. Division of labor is the beginning of prosperity. Encourage people to excel what they are good at plus be at least mediocre on the life skills common to all citizens. Let the dumb jock who doesn't understand Shakespeare play football despite bad grades, and give him an A in football. Give the pencil necked geek math genius a D in physical education for failing to do a chinup. That D can be life-saving if said geek decides to go to MIT and compete with true peers at what he excels at locally. (Suicide is a big problem at MIT as they recruit students who have never experienced a bad grade.)

I could go on, but let's move on to the near term solution.

The Solution for Now

The insanity and envy problems are with us. We cannot get rid of them without a time machine or solutions which are morally unacceptable. So how do we protect children from people who are insanely angry about their childhood and/or outright demon possessed?

Well, the kids need to be guarded. The guard(s) need to be:

1. On the spot early. (A society which has enough police to respond fast enough is a police state.)
2. Has combat training and reflexes.
3. Is bonded to the students strongly enough to risk his life for them.

Many conservatives are calling for having an armed guard at all schools. For dangerous inner city schools with metal detectors and whatnot, this might be good (and is already the norm), but in general this is a bad idea. Most schools are safe. School shootings are outlier events. While we should prep for outlier events, putting kids into a state of fear on a regular basis is a bad idea.

Worse, a guard who has nothing to do 99.999% of the time is going to get the respect of a mall cop. This is not good for bonding to students. And there is going to be a tendency for such guards and their employers to find things for them to do, things which will prepare the children for life under a police state.

What I want is for every school to have at least one military combat veteran as a teacher. This is not a new idea.

(Ironic fact: the Author of Starship Troopers was a free love nudist who was seriously fantasizing about Transitioning. But he had the good sense not to push his perversions in his books aimed at children and teens.)

Let veterans teach guy stuff: shop, patriotism, military history, survival skills, primitive engineering, woodworking, war games, etc. Given how feminine the public schools have become, such veteran teachers will be the most beloved teachers in the school -- at least by the boys. They will defend their charges. And military training is more relevant to a school shooting events than standard police training. Give the military veteran teachers a coded locker with body armor and appropriate armament and the children will be protected, and most aspiring school shooters will reconsider their career choice.

And the fatherless will get some father figures. This is rather important in this age of no fault divorce and an anti-marriage welfare system.

Adding a military veteran to teach Guy Stuff is worthwhile even if school shootings weren't a problem! Such skills used to be taught by fathers and the Boy Scouts. But anti-family policies have reduced fatherhood and fagcist activists (and judges who pretend that the Equal Rights Amendment passed) destroyed the Boy Scouts. Many boys and young men desperately need father figures who aren't celebrities or gang leaders.

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