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A guy walks into a school and pulls out a gun. Several students respond by attacking him, just as they were taught by their school to do in the event of this happening. The gunman kills three and critically injures five before being overwhelmed.
This is a perfect formula for a series of lawsuits, public outrage, and years of misery.
Children are not police officers, nor are they soldiers.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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