Kids should be taught to gang rush shooters?

[Are_grits_groceries]

In what can only be seen as a malicious plot by Newsweek’s editors [Update: this is a long blog post, not a magazine piece] to ensure Megan McArdle’s reputation does not outlive Newsweek, the Daily Beast has published a 4,000 word essay by its new hire on how to stop massacres like last Friday’s. McArdle begins her essay with a prescient harbinger (“There just aren't good words to talk about Newtown.”) but recovers to churn out a fairly standard libertarian argument about why various government remedies won’t work. And it's true, to some extent, that various regulatory solutions all have complications.

The problem comes at the end when, having dismissed the standard liberal regulatory measures as unworkable, she has to propose her own solution. This is what McArdle comes up with:

I'd also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it into young people that the correct thing to do is for everyone to instantly run at the guy with the gun, these sorts of mass shootings would be less deadly, because even a guy with a very powerful weapon can be brought down by 8-12 unarmed bodies piling on him at once.

Are you kidding me? You think gun control is impractical, so your plan is to turn the entire national population, including young children, into a standby suicide squad? Through private initiative, of course. It’s way more feasible than gun control!
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/12/newsweek-wins-worst-newtown-reaction-award.html

Smh.........

[Warpy]

1. When the shooter has one of those guns that fires multiple rounds

a second, he'd just end up with a bunch of mangled bodies at his feet.

Maybe when we take their military assault weapons away from them and we limit the number of rounds in a clip, they'll have to reload and then older kids can rush him and take him down.

For now, hiding if you can't escape the area entirely is the best anyone of any age can do. If we can slow these nutters down, maybe that will open the door to taking them down sooner rather than later.

[MisterP]

2. if anyone's wondering why this hairpile is in the media,

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it's because she's a hairpile with a corpo-friendly message

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found her inspiration

[Smilo]

3. And I bet she would be at the back, encouraging the children on.

What a pos.

[Fumesucker]

4. Conservatives thought the human wave of kids was less than optimal when Iran used it

More situational ethics from conservatives, what a surprise.

[SheilaT]

5. How about she demonstrates

personally just how well this will work.

[nobodyspecial]

6. Yes, a bunch of 30 and 40-pound kindergartners

are going to take down an armed gunman as he fires bullets at them.

I don't know who is worse, the writer or the editor that let this stand.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. This would be practical if the shooter

Had a weapon with a low rate of fire. This...she's nutz, certifiable.

She has no idea how much ammo these infantry riffles put out.

Let me explain something with a rate of fire of four to six rounds...a minute, not six rounds a second.