Wow, telling students and teachers to fight back

[never_retreat]

Wow, telling students and teachers to fight back.
Never thought I would here this.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/02/teachers-students-in-one-alabama-city-told-to-fight-back-if-facing-violent/?test=latestnews

[Hawkmoon]

I don't understand the lock-down mentality. Especially when it can't possibly work.

Our local high school was substantially renovated (read: "rebuilt") a few years ago. After seeing the plans, I sat down with the deputy chief of the police department to discuss the fact that the new classrooms, where the occupants are supposed to lock themselves in if there's a shooter in the building, have GLASS sidelights immediately adjacent to all the classroom doors. The chief agreed it was a dumb idea, but the police department had no voice in the design. I pointed it out to the building inspector in a meeting with him and the architects, and the architects' response was "We like it."

So they built it.

  

[grislyatoms]

"I don't understand the lock-down mentality."
That's because it's insensible.

[SteveS]

I went to high school in the UP of Michigan in the 80's and there was a local incident where a student brought a gun to school and pulled it out in class.  4 or 5 guys nearby attacked him and pummeled him before he could do whatever he was going to do.  Fighting back always seemed like a better option than being shot.