{"id":36740,"date":"2013-06-13T12:20:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T17:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36740"},"modified":"2013-06-13T12:39:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T17:39:50","slug":"less-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36740","title":{"rendered":"Less Useless"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of the Newtown\/Sandy Hook massacre, as America’s political class and educational-industrial complex spun themselves into paroxysms of anxiety working out non-solutions (ramping up regulations on the law-abiding) and anti-solutions <\/a>(useless fripperies designed to increase the theatrical “sense” of security without actually making anyone safer from the kind of atrocities that happened in Newtown)…<\/p>\n

…one Minneapolis teaching assistant, actually did something useful; she brought her legally-permitted gun to school.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As cops are teaching themselves – and others who are at liberty to use the knowlege – the best way to respond to an active mass shooter is immediately, with lethal force.\u00a0 It’s ended not a few potential mass shootings, notably the shooting in Portland three days before Newtown, where a citizen pointing a gun at a man who’d just murdered two and still had hundreds of rounds of ammunition was all it took to break the killer out of his fantasy <\/a>– which is the key step.\u00a0 Mass-murderers are delusional narcissists lost in a fantasy world; interrupting the carefully-planned fantasy is the key to ending the shooting (at least before the plan reaches its end).\u00a0<\/p>\n

But that’s just too practical a solution for the Minneapolis school system, or any other, apparently:<\/p>\n

A Minneapolis education assistant has been put on a year\u2019s probation and remains on unpaid leave after bringing a loaded handgun to Seward Montessori School the week after school shootings grabbed national attention in December.<\/p>\n

The district identified the aide who brought the .357 Magnum gun to the school as Kathleen E. Scozzari, in response to a Star Tribune data practices law request. She is a 21-year district employee.<\/p>\n

The 59-year-old northeast Minneapolis resident has been on leave without pay from her $19.90 per hour job since the Dec. 19 incident, in which her gun was recovered from her locked locker in a staff room. The incident occurred a week after the mass school shootings in Newton, Conn.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was immediately cooperative. She explained her motives to the police right away,” said attorney Sarah MacGillis, who represented Scozzari. “Her principal concern was protecting the students.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kudos to Ms. Scozzari for her motives.<\/p>\n

Of course, it’s against the law – and against policy, which is that your children must be compliant, orderly victims, the better to be used as a helpless dependent in life, and posthumous political cudgel.<\/p>\n

Provided your children look like the children of NPR executives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The story doesn’t mentioned how the staff detected Scozzari’s pistol.\u00a0 Scozzari has a carry permit.<\/p>\n

And I suspect there are not a few other teachers out there, in the wake of Sandy Hook, doing the same thing, only more quietly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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