Lucille
12-19-2012, 02:29 PM
How to Stop the Next Campus Killings
http://www.creators.com/opinion/alexander-cockburn/how-to-stop-the-next-campus-killings.html
Since there undoubtedly will be a repeat of campus killings, probably in the not so distant future, what useful counsel on preventive measures can we offer students, faculty and campus police forces across America?
There have been the usual howls from the anti-gun lobby, but it's all hot air. America is not about to dump the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving people the right — albeit an increasingly circumscribed one — to bear arms.
A better idea would be for appropriately screened teachers and maybe student monitors to carry weapons. A quarter of a century ago, students doing military ROTC training regularly carried rifles around campus. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recently recalled regularly traveling on the New York subway system as a student with his rifle.
Five years ago, Peter Odighizuwa, a 43-year-old Nigerian student killed three faculty members at Appalachian Law School with a semi-automatic handgun, but before he could wreak further carnage, two students fetched weapons from their cars, challenged the murderer with levelled guns, and disarmed him.
What should be banned from campuses are not weapons but prescriptions for antidepressants. Eric Harris, co-slayer (with Dylan Klebold) of 12 students and a teacher in the Columbine school shootings in 1999, was on Luvox, a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) of the same class as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. Initially, Harris had been prescribed Zoloft, but told his doctor he was having suicidal and homicidal fantasies. So the doc shifted him to Luvox...
http://reason.com/blog/2012/07/21/alexander-cockburn-rip
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/07/22/alexander-cockburn-rip/
http://harpers.org/archive/1982/08/the-tedium-twins/
http://www.creators.com/opinion/alexander-cockburn/how-to-stop-the-next-campus-killings.html
Since there undoubtedly will be a repeat of campus killings, probably in the not so distant future, what useful counsel on preventive measures can we offer students, faculty and campus police forces across America?
There have been the usual howls from the anti-gun lobby, but it's all hot air. America is not about to dump the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving people the right — albeit an increasingly circumscribed one — to bear arms.
A better idea would be for appropriately screened teachers and maybe student monitors to carry weapons. A quarter of a century ago, students doing military ROTC training regularly carried rifles around campus. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recently recalled regularly traveling on the New York subway system as a student with his rifle.
Five years ago, Peter Odighizuwa, a 43-year-old Nigerian student killed three faculty members at Appalachian Law School with a semi-automatic handgun, but before he could wreak further carnage, two students fetched weapons from their cars, challenged the murderer with levelled guns, and disarmed him.
What should be banned from campuses are not weapons but prescriptions for antidepressants. Eric Harris, co-slayer (with Dylan Klebold) of 12 students and a teacher in the Columbine school shootings in 1999, was on Luvox, a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) of the same class as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. Initially, Harris had been prescribed Zoloft, but told his doctor he was having suicidal and homicidal fantasies. So the doc shifted him to Luvox...
http://reason.com/blog/2012/07/21/alexander-cockburn-rip
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/07/22/alexander-cockburn-rip/
http://harpers.org/archive/1982/08/the-tedium-twins/