Finally, something happening in Texas that I agree with

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/10/13/defending.the.classroom.ap/index.html

For those of you too lazy to read the article (you know who you are, and so do I), a high school in Texas is teaching its students that if some asshole walks into the classroom with a gun, you chuck stuff at him and then you bum rush him and kick his ass.

Think about it. You make it a lot harder for him to shoot you if shit's flying in his face and you're moving around. Lying down under the desk is a great way to get a bullet in the back of the head. If I had children in a school system teaching this, I'd be damn proud. As far as I'm concerned, it's always better to take things into your own hands than to wait it out and hope nothing bad happens.

And you know what? One or two children will most likely get winged in the process. But how many died in Columbine? How many have died in the outbreak we've had the past few weeks? With class sizes jumping up over 30, one or two gunshot victims could save over two dozen other lives.

"Oh, Scott Colby, what if one of your kids was shot rushing a gunman? Wouldn't you feel bad?" Yeah, for a little while, I would. But then I'd realize he was a hero, and I'd feel damn proud of him.

One of the people quoted in the article says that this school system is training kids to do things that professional tactical officers would do, and there's no way they can be prepared. Hello, haven't violent video games had been teaching our kids to be cold-blooded killers for years? The first time students successfully fight back, and one of the kids is quoted as saying "Yeah, we went all Masterchief on his ass," Hillary and Jack Thompson are going to look really, really stupid.