Quote Originally Posted by WiSDoM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_...hostage_crisis

here is your fear mongering.. Glenn Beck was talking about preventive measures and plans schools have in case of one of these actions happens here. I never thought education and knowledge as something we should fear?

To think that it couldn't happen here is naive. Look at all the mass shooting we have had in our schools just in the last few years and they were not even terrorists. I know I would feel better if my school system was really looking out for my kids. What can we really do????
A perfect example of doing the terrorist's job for them.
One case, 3 years ago right on the border of Chechnya -- you know the area in the middle of a freaking civil war.

Do you know how much bad fecal matter goes down around the world every day? We can't possibly plan for everything that could happen. It just isn't possible. There isn't enough money on the planet to pay to protect us from every movie plot that someone thinks up.

What's naive is to take the fear-mongers seriously. Was it this Beck guy's idea to associate school shootings with terrorist attacks? Typical fear-mongering - invent a problem and then associate it with some totally unrelated, high-profile, vivid event and capitalize on the fear by association.

Except in this case, any rational evaluation of school shootings would show that those are so rare that they are hardly worth the worry - what 2 per year out of the tens of thousands of schools in this country? A couple of hundred times more kids die in car accidents than die in school shootings. The reason they make all the headlines is because they are so rare to begin with.

Sure, every school should have an emergency plan -- a plan flexible enough to deal with most reasonable concerns - bad weather, power failures, etc. But terrorism is about the last thing on the list that schools need to be worried about.

There is one and only one way to win the "War on Terror" and that is to REFUSE TO BE TERRORIZED.