A Root Cause Of American Decline

Oh my god! If you weren't aware of it all ready (clearly you have been on extended trip out of the solar system), here is prof positive that our country has turned into Bazarro World!

Three teens in Florida, tackle another teen who is pointing a loaded gun at yet another teen, at point blank range. They wrestle the loaded gun away from him and undoubtedly save a minimum of one and quite possibly more lives! And what do these heroic students get from the school for their efforts?

SUSPENSION!

That's right. All three were immediately suspended by there school!

And "Why" you might ask, would students doing the right thing at risk of their own life and health, be suspended?

According to school "policy" they were involved in an incident involving a gun.

Hello!

School!

These boys weren't the ones who introduced the gun into the situation! They were the ones REMOVING the gun from the situation!

In fact, if these kids had been to a government school the day they showed the DHS sponsored film produced by the city of Houston, they did exactly what the government says to do.

Run, Hide, Fight!

According to our federal government's Department of Homeland Security, when faced with an active shooter you should RUN if you can, HIDE if you can't, and FIGHT if options one and two won't work. http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=5VcSwejU2D0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D5VcSwejU2D0

These boys were on a bus with one boy threatening to shoot another. Note the word "bus". Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. They did the right thing! (Actually, I'd say they did the right thing even if options one and two were available to them.)

We here all the time about how something bad happens and no one does a thing to help and we decry our civilization's uncaringness for others. All the while wondering "How did our country ever devolve to such a state?"

Well this case is exhibit number one.

Our schools are teaching our young to become uninvolved drones!

What is the real lesson being taught to our kids here? If you get involved and stop a terrible thing from happening you will be punished! If you do nothing, the system will not punish you. Negative reinforcement will be withheld! Removal of a negative is felt to be a positive, particularly in the young. The system is teaching our young that uninvolvement is the right course of action.

I put it to you that our lily livered educators (which have been taught this behavior by many folks who were 60's draft dodgers themselves) are the root cause of many of our society's current ills.

This country needs an immediate and drastic change of course in what we are teaching our young. We could do without many, if not ALL, of the touchy feely sensitivity crap our schools waste time and money on and return to some serious civics instruction! Teaching our kids what it should mean to be an American! Not some neutered world citizen view!

Or so it would seem to an old farm boy.

Here is a link to the story this is based on: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/02/high-school-student-disarms-gunman-gets-suspended/