{"id":34461,"date":"2013-02-22T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34461"},"modified":"2013-02-21T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:43:54","slug":"a-pack-not-a-herd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34461","title":{"rendered":"What Do The Flight 93 Terrorists Know That Janet Napolitano Doesn’t?"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least some police departments are, finally, teaching the victim pool in our nation’s “gun free zones” that sitting quietly and waiting to be butchered<\/a> doesn’t actually prevent any deaths.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement agencies have begun adopting a new policy on so-called \u201cactive shooters,\u201d encouraging civilians to take safety into their own hands and take down gunmen who threaten them at work or school.<\/p>\n

This approach is gaining momentum in the wake of tragic incidents in Newtown, Connecticut and the Oikos University shooting in Oakland.<\/p>\n

At San Jose Evergreen Community College, police have trained teachers, staff and students to follow specific guidelines during this kind of emergency.<\/p>\n

The campus police chief credits this training for their coordinated response last December when a gunman was thought to have entered one of their buildings. \u201cSome folks even said I know now whether it is time to hide or the right time to fight back,\u201d said Chief Raymund Aguirre.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fighting back works.<\/p>\n

As we saw in the Clackamas Mall shooting, three days before the Sandy Hook shooting last winter, fighting back with a gun works even better.<\/p>\n

Eventually someone will put two and two together; if resisting murderers is good, resisting them with lethal force is better.<\/p>\n

We’ll have a related story – and one that ties in with my “Urban Renewal” piece the other day – coming up at noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least some police departments are, finally, teaching the victim pool in our nation’s “gun free zones” that sitting quietly and waiting to be butchered doesn’t actually prevent any deaths. Law enforcement agencies have begun adopting a new policy on so-called \u201cactive shooters,\u201d encouraging civilians to take safety into their own hands and take down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34466,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34461\/revisions\/34466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}