No, this is the stupidest thing you’ll read

By Mustang Bobby 

(Ed. note: For more on this stupidity, see Dave Weigel, who did the research Allen didn't do and notes that there were in fact men at the school, not that it would have mattered. -- MJWS) 

Earlier this week I shared the wit and wisdom of Megan McArdle, who said the solution to school shootings was teaching the kids to gang-tackle the attacker, thus making it easier for the coroner to find the bodies. I called it "probably the stupidest thing you'll read today."

My apologies to Ms. McArdle. Or at least I should tell her to get out of the way; she's been overtaken by Charlotte Allen at National Review, who says that the reason all those kids died was that there weren't enough men and well-built 12-year-old boys at Sandy Hook Elementary:

In this school of 450 students, a sizeable number of whom were undoubtedly 11- and 12-year-old boys (it was a K–6 school), all the personnel — the teachers, the principal, the assistant principal, the school psychologist, the "reading specialist" — were female. There didn't even seem to be a male janitor to heave his bucket at Adam Lanza's knees. Women and small children are sitting ducks for mass-murderers. The principal, Dawn Hochsprung, seemed to have performed bravely. According to reports, she activated the school's public-address system and also lunged at Lanza, before he shot her to death. Some of the teachers managed to save all or some of their charges by rushing them into closets or bathrooms. But in general, a feminized setting is a setting in which helpless passivity is the norm. Male aggression can be a good thing, as in protecting the weak — but it has been forced out of the culture of elementary schools and the education schools that train their personnel. Think of what Sandy Hook might have been like if a couple of male teachers who had played high-school football, or even some of the huskier 12-year-old boys, had converged on Lanza.

Seriously, where does she get this shit?


Over at SFDB, Rick posted about a gun-stroking blog where, in one breath, one commentator lambasted teachers for being lazy, overpaid slackers and tools of the teachers union, then suggested that they spend all their time off in the summer getting training in firearms.

Two questions: who would pay for that, and, more importantly, does this person really want to arm a group of people that he just branded as incompetent thugs?

(Cross-posted at Bark Bark Woof Woof.)