I have now officially heard it all; Human waves of first graders

[Fumesucker]

I remember when conservatives thought this was a less than optimal tactic when Iran did it with their kids against Iraq.

The website is remarkably aptly named I must say.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/17/there-s-little-we-can-do-to-prevent-another-massacre.html

I'd also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it into young people that the correct thing to do is for everyone to instantly run at the guy with the gun, these sorts of mass shootings would be less deadly, because even a guy with a very powerful weapon can be brought down by 8-12 unarmed bodies piling on him at once.

[teddy51]

1. What? Now that is insane!

[jpak]

26. This why they are called GUN NUTS

yup

[HiPointDem]

2. moot anyway; the way things are going they'll be in sweatshops with locked doors. no shooters

then, unless the first graders off themselves out of despair.

[Fumesucker]

12. Good point n/t

[patrice]

3. the testosterone high, known amongst those who have never been there as "heroism" nt

[Fumesucker]

8. The writer is female, sadly n/t

[patrice]

13. Huh? I'm quite happy to be a female, thank you very much! ;-)

[dixiegrrrrl]

36. Let's call her to rush the next shooter that shows up.

Her and about 10 of her pals, that should do the trick.

[BootinUp]

4. What we need to do, is make bad guy dummies out of candy

then teach the younguns that they get a reward for rushing the armed candy dummy while the firecraker noise is going off!

Why didn't we think of this before!!!!!!!!

[Neoma]

5. No, no, no!

Making them easy targets will confuse them and make him miss!

[Rex]

6. So instead of talking about why little children

should commit a suicide dash against an unknown opponent, Repukes just think that is the best idea - period. To send children against an armed person with an assault rife.

Got it.

One of the worst things I've ever heard suggested.

[Arctic Dave]

7. That is about as dumb as the "security expert" they had on Fox News

He was saying the reason the kids died is because they didn't play cops and robbers enough like he did as a kid, so they weren't prepared.

[Fumesucker]

11. Oh shit I was eating a chip and nearly choked

I mean I could understand John Q Moran saying that but an "expert"?

[liberalhistorian]

18. Fox is spinning so fast with this that I'm surprised

it hasn't fallen off the globe and into outer space. That's because it blows two of their central tenets out of the water, the unfettered worship of guns and teacher bashing/blaming. So, of course they're going to do everything they can to re-align the stars and put the walls back up on the "bubble" of "reality" they've constructed. I wouldn't be surprised if they started bashing the teachers who died for not "doing enough, as usual" or some such shit. I really really wouldn't, at this point. They are utterly, totally, completely shameless and proud of the ignorance they propound and maintain.

[Rex]

24. +1

Well stated!

[yardwork]

31. The firearms industry is highly lucrative.

[callous taoboy]

33. You have GOT to be fucking kidding me. Oh, it's Faux News. Par for the course.

[dixiegrrrrl]

37. I am SERIOUSLY thinking of leaving this country.

Obviously the rush to dumb down the general populace over the years has worked so well.
There ARE more of "them" than there are of us.

[spanone]

9. why does media print this shit? it's mad magazine material.

[reformist2]

10. This absurd article is being trashed in the comments section of WaPo. LOL

[Downwinder]

14. From experience, you need a couple of fourth graders

with the first graders to bring down an eighth grade bully.

[Fumesucker]

15. Got him when he paused to reload, eh?

[Downwinder]

19. Unarmed combat, Fourth grade and below could use slingshots.

Other eighth graders would not let more than four on him at one time. He never bullied again.

[jsr]

16. Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto the Bushmaster

so the NRA can water the tree of liberty.

[patrice]

20. +infinity by, "Better dead than _______________" for the serfs, unfortunately.

[pacalo]

17. She believes "it would be more efffective than banning rifles with pistol grips."

Would it work? Would people do it? I have no idea; all I can say is that both these things {restrictions on magazine capacity & gang-rushing} would be more effective than banning rifles with pistol grips.

[backscatter712]

21. I made that suggestion in jest here.

It's sad that someone actually suggested that as a serious tactic.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

22. Goomer the Tumor said the same thing.

Louie Gohmert (R-eallyCrazy-TX) said the principal should have had an assault rifle in a locked closet and should have gotten it out"when she heard gunshots" and killed the shooter, instead of rushing him.

[ellisonz]

23. If only they had kevlar backpacks! If only!

[JVS]

25. Now that is some mindblowingly stupid shit.

[JHB]

29. For which she receivess a substantial paycheck...

...and very little fear she'll lose it due to low-quality output.

[Little Star]

27. Oh pete's sake!

[Warren DeMontague]

28. I guess the talking point has gone out: The Bushmaster 223 is used to "hunt varmints"

[Aerows]

30. That's the rationality

of a freaking nut job. No, let's not limit the number of rounds someone can carry when they aren't in a warzone, let's teach our children to function like they live in a warzone instead.

Yeah, that makes about as much sense as buying skates for a fish.

[Spider Jerusalem]

32. It's both interesting and instructive to Google "Megan McArdle is an idiot"

interesting because you will learn that she's wrong about just about everything and almost never has the vaguest idea what she's talking about; instructive because you'll learn to never, ever make the mistake of bothering to read any of her tripe again.

[Fumesucker]

35. Megan McArdle Orders the Burlwood Dash For Her Tumbrel

http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/megan-mcardle-orders-the-burlwood-dash-for-her-tumbrel/

[Warren DeMontague]

34. If the bushmaster 223 is such a harmless pea shooter, how do these Red Dawn/Alex Jones fucks

Think its going to protect them from teh new world order?