Newtown School Shootings

[Lemur]

Well, if you're looking for the most jaw-droppingly wrong-headed reaction to the Newton massacre, you won't find it in this thread. Nope, the grand slam winner is Newsweek's Megan McArdle.

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. Would it work? Would people do it? I have no idea; all I can say is that both these things would be more effective than banning rifles with pistol grips.

McArdle leaves herself some wiggle room by not directly saying she wants six- and seven-year-olds to gang-rush a mass murderer, but the implication is clear. I suppose any sociopath who wants to shoot up a kindergarten had better spend some time running calculations on this site: How many five-year-olds can you take in a fight?