Fight Back!

If anything, the defining image of contemporary maleness is not M Lepine/Gharbi but the professors and the men in that classroom, who, ordered to leave by the lone gunman, meekly did so, and abandoned their female classmates to their fate – an act of abdication that would have been unthinkable in almost any other culture throughout human history. The “men” stood outside in the corridor and, even as they heard the first shots, they did nothing. And, when it was over and Gharbi walked out the room and past them, they still did nothing. Whatever its other defects, Canadian manhood does not suffer from an excess of testosterone..Mark Steyn

A well directed briefcase, laptop or cellphone and then a rush and we would be mourning far fewer, if any, dead women tomorrow. I have no idea if, in the circumstances, I would have the courage to rush a guy with a loaded gun. But I am pretty certain that I would not have the ability to live with myself if I didn’t at least try.

We have turned December 6 into some sort of civic Day of Hate for men who abuse women. It would be a great deal more useful to offer information and training to people who want to learn how to actively and forcefully resist the Gharbis of this world.

Written by jay on December 6th, 2006 with 3 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Frank Hilliard
#1. December 7th, 2006, at 8:52 AM.

Here’s something that may be relevant to some of your readers:
http://mesowest.blogspot.com/2006/12/buy-woman-gun.html

Best regards,
Frank Hilliard

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Chris Selley
#2. December 7th, 2006, at 9:35 PM.

A cellphone, eh? A laptop? It’s risky enough Monday-morning QBing the thing 17 years down the line - risky enough to suggest they’d do it the same way if they had it to do over again, or that they have no problem “living with themselves.” You might at least arm them with non-anachronistic classroom technology in your little scenario.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com jay
#3. December 8th, 2006, at 12:51 AM.

As I wrote this I thought, “I bet someone is going to point out that there were no laptops or cellphones”. In fact cellphones of stunning size and heft were about 17 years ago as were rudimentary laptops (I had a 286 laptop). However, your point that these were not typically in the classroom is likely correct.

Text books, on the other hand can be tossed.

The point, of course, is not to drop the gunman with a well placed throw but rather to distract and disorient him while a full on swarm takes place.

And my broader point is that rather than the wailing and gnashing of teeth which arrives every year, why not organize a cross country teach in on emergency skills and responses for women and men so that the next time some murderous savage pops into class the people have a fighting chance.

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