Common cause

[unixronin]

There is a lesson to be learned from Virginia Tech and, by comparison, from the Appalachian Law School.

There is a lesson to be learned from United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.

I could find other examples.  The Warsaw ghetto, for example.  But the point would be the same.  They all teach the same lesson.

That lesson is quite simple, and can be stated in two words:

FIGHT BACK.

If you refuse to fight back, you are betting your future, your life, and everything else you have to lose, on the goodwill of your attacker.  Where is the possible logic in trusting to the goodwill of someone who has just viciously attacked you without provocation?

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[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

and the incident back in '02 where someone went and got his gun, and secured the wild man with a gun.

personally, i think the school is responsible for this one. by making a space where you cannot carry to defend yourself (or others), in a state that otherwise makes it easy to do so MOST places, they took the burden of protecting people, and did it badly. M O O N that spells "they suck".

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