What is the nation to do when the lives of 20 precious and innocent first graders can be violently taken in the presumed safety of their neighborhood public school? What of the lives of the heroic teachers and administrators who perished trying to protect their students? We grieve, as perhaps we have never grieved a school tragedy before. Sadly we have too many for comparison. The deadly rampagContinue Reading »

Well, we should have seen that coming. As the nation continues to grieve for the teachers and children massacred in Connecticut last week, it was inevitable that some policymakers would begin to offer up this solution for dealing with school shootings: just arm the teachers.

Naturally, some of these advocates are from my home state of Virginia. But the same idea is being pitched in the hContinue Reading »