All the facts aren’t in but it appears a madman dressed up as a policeman and took a boat to Utoya Island where he ordered a group of teenagers to gather around him, and then started shooting. The death toll has reached at least 80, but they’re still counting. The only thing that stopped the killer was other people with guns, in the form of a SWAT team that also had to take a boat to the island. Apparently, the killer had his way for quite a while since he had the only gun on the island before the SWAT team arrived.
If some of the adults on the island had been armed would the death toll have been lower? I think so. The shooter in Tucson who recently killed 5 and wounded a U.S. Congresswoman was stopped by a CCW holder (without using his firearm, but he was armed).
It may be that the United States and Israel are the only civilized countries where a majority of people understand the simple concept that a deranged man with a gun can only be stopped by other people with guns (unless a brave group takes him down by charging him at great risk to themselves, which also happened in Tucson). This photo I took in the City of Acre, Israel in 2002 of a couple of school teachers on a class outing with their students reveals that understanding.
After the recent incident in Conn. I’m sure people are going to look at another approach to keeping our children safe. This is just another reason people are going to home schooling – it just isn’t safe out there in a morally decaying world.
Home schooling has many benefits. You can give your children a good education, and you control the environment so you can keep them safe at the same time.
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Great photo of the armed teacher… where did you find that picture?
I was just walking around the streets in Acre. If I remember correctly, I think I was standing in line to get a falafel sandwich from a street vendor when I saw the teacher (there were two of them) and the children. I Had the camera around my neck and snapped the photo. Acre is an old testament biblical city and the current center of much archeological digging. That’s why the children were on an outing there.
There’s a seawall in Acre that has a lot of Napoleon’s cannon balls still stuck in it. He gave up in frustration after trying to destroy the city when his cannon balls simply stuck into the soft rock of the seawall, stayed there without doing must damage. Many of them are still there if they haven’t fallen into the sea.