Friday, October 12, 2007

Rash of school violence?

So that's what those bumps are!

Here's today's first e-mail:
"Dear Ms. Rosenberry, We are syndicating an exclusive feature story that could be of great interest to The Gazette readers, especially parents and students, and could be a great addition to any coverage you are doing on the recent rash of school violence. This article gives readers the chance to 'sit in' on a unique crash course on how to survive a school shooting massacre taught by elite commandos.

"SYNOPSIS:Six months after the US suffered its worst ever campus shooting with 33 killed and 23 injured at Virginia Tech, America is again reeling from a school shooting in Cleveland, Ohio on October 10th and the arrest the very next day of a 14 year-old who was planning a Columbine-like school massacre in Plymouth, Pennsylvania.Parents around the country are looking for ways to better protect their children, but the answer may come not from the school-yard, but the battlefield."

Riiiiiiiight. The Web site's "massacre timeline" lists 12 events in the last 30 years. Does 4 events a decade a rash make?
Here's the link provided for the course.

Here's the instructor:






Chief instructor of the survive a shooting massacre course, Walter Philbrick, is a 30 year veteran instructor to elite police units around the world and CEO of the security firm International Protective Services.
Photo by Ron Laytner, Edit International

3 comments:

Jennifer Wilson said...

He looks so fun! And kind. I bet if you were feeling down, he'd give him a shoulder to cry on.

Or, he'd punch you in the face and scream at you to snap out of it.

Jennifer Wilson said...

make that give "you" a shoulder to cry on.

I was so intimidated by his looks I got nervous and screwed up my comment.

I don't think he'd take kindly to mistakes.

LadyBronco said...

He looks like he keeps a flask of whiskey in one of them pockets!

lol...