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Massad Ayoob's recommendations on campus safety In the aftermath of two recent college campus shooting incidents (Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University), we have been asking our visitors for their opinions regarding what can be done to make university and college campuses, and also public schools, safer places to be. What follows are Massad Ayoob’s thoughts in response to our four-question survey.
Massad F. Ayoob is an internationally-known firearms and self-defense instructor and writer. He is the Director of the Lethal Force Institute in Concord, New Hampshire, has taught police techniques and civilian self-defense in numerous venues since 1974, and has appeared as an expert witness in numerous trials. His course on the Judicious Use of Lethal Force is the most famous and respected course on this topic in the United States, and is attended by civilians, attorneys, and law enforcement from all over the country. Mr. Ayoob has served as a part-time police officer in New Hampshire since 1972 and has held the rank of Captain in the Grantham, New Hampshire police department. Massad Ayoob has authored best selling books and videos on personal defense and defensive firearms use, which include:
Massad Ayoob has written over two thousand articles on firearms, combat techniques, self-defense, and legal issues, and has served in an editorial capacity for Guns Magazine, American Handgunner, Gun Week, Combat Handguns, and other firearms related publications. He also has been repeatedly featured on the television show Personal Defense TV, which airs on The Outdoor Channel in the United States.
Question One: We’ve seen from the collective Israeli, Peruvian, and Filipino experience that a program of arming teachers and other responsible adults on campus – adults who have volunteered for the program, and been expressly trained to handle it – has dramatically reduced mass murders in these institutional environments. In the Israeli model, the volunteers included parents and grandparents of students; teachers; and administrators and other school personnel. Here in this country, we have the incident in Pearl, Mississippi where the high school vice principal managed to get his pistol from his truck in the parking lot, take the young mass-murderer at gunpoint, and stop the killings. We have the recent incident in Salt Lake City where only an off-duty cop with a pistol was able to pin down the mass murderer and stop the killing until police reinforcements could arrive. We have the recent incident in Colorado where an adult volunteer, a member of the congregation who had a CCW permit, interdicted and stopped a mass murder at her church. And we have the incident at the Appalachian Law School where two adult students, licensed to carry weapons, drew down on a mass murderer and captured him alive, interdicting his murder spree. In the adult education environment, certainly responsible adult students with CCW permits should be able to exercise their self-protection rights at the learning institution as readily as the law would allow them to do anywhere else. In sum, we need competent, armed personnel, including qualified adult students with CCW permits on campus. Question Two: My answer would be the same as to Question One, except of course the armed option would be limited to carefully-selected and trained adults in the supervised security program. Armed protection must already be in place, rather than reactively summoned. Question Three: The “gun-free zone” has become a hunting preserve for psychopaths who hunt humans. It is objectively obvious that mass murderers choose venues where they can expect to be unhindered for at least several minutes as they go about their carefully planned deeds. Continued restrictive legislation as exists in Wisconsin and Illinois, to name just two jurisdictions, will continue to guarantee helpless prey to depraved mass killers. Question Four: The only new legislation I could see would be concealed carry reform, that would open self-protection and protection-of-others options to more responsible adults in what are now gun-free zones. It is understood that force can only successfully be met by countervailing force; thus, "gun-free zones" become in essence "protection-free zones." In sum, we need to legislate to rescind prohibitions against reasonable self-protection. Respectfully submitted, To let your voice be heard in our survey, click here |
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