{"id":31862,"date":"2012-12-19T18:05:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T01:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/one-of-the-more-loathsome-things-ive-read-this-week.html"},"modified":"2012-12-19T18:05:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T01:05:14","slug":"one-of-the-more-loathsome-things-ive-read-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/one-of-the-more-loathsome-things-ive-read-this-week.html","title":{"rendered":"One of the more loathsome things I've read this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Per Charlotte Adam, writing in the National Review Online, the reason the Newtown shooting killed so many was … there were no men around, just women. \u00a0(Emphasis mine.)<\/p>\n

'There was not a single adult male on the school premises when the shooting occurred. In this school of 450 students, a sizeable number of whom were undoubtedly 11- and 12-year-old boys (it was a K\u20136 school), all the personnel \u2014 the teachers, the principal, the assistant principal, the school psychologist, the \u201creading specialist\u201d \u2014 were female. There didn\u2019t even seem to be a male janitor to heave his bucket at Adam Lanza\u2019s knees. Women and small children are sitting ducks for mass-murderers.<\/b> The principal, Dawn Hochsprung, seemed to have performed bravely. According to reports, she activated the school\u2019s public-address system and also lunged at Lanza, before he shot her to death. Some of the teachers managed to save all or some of their charges by rushing them into closets or bathrooms. But in general, a feminized setting is a setting in which helpless passivity is the norm. Male aggression can be a good thing, as in protecting the weak \u2014 but it has been forced out of the culture of elementary schools and the education schools that train their personnel.<\/b> Think of what Sandy Hook might have been like if a couple of male teachers who had played high-school football, or even some of the huskier 12-year-old boys, had converged on Lanza.'<\/i><\/p>\n

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Per Charlotte Adam, writing in the National Review Online, the reason the Newtown shooting killed so many was … there were no men around, just women. \u00a0(Emphasis mine.) 'There was not a single adult male on the school premises when the shooting occurred. 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