A Bullet For The Teacher

I love guns. I'm good with guns. I've owned guns since I was 8 years old. I've used guns for entertainment, defense and hunting. The only issue I have with guns is knowing who is holding it. After all, in the many years that I've had and been around guns, I have never seen or heard of a gun climb out of the closet, load itself and kill someone. There was always someone using the gun to make it go "BANG".

There is one and only one reason why governments like to ban guns, and that is "authorities" can't use guns to control the population if the population can shoot back. It's a very simple concept that has proven effective throughout history. Take a look at every dictatorship in the past 200 years, just to begin.

Mass shootings, such as the one that occurred in Parkland, Florida, recently are tragedies. Of that, there is no debate. However, it seems that government failed at multiple levels over multiple years to act on tips and concerns from those who had contact with the alleged shooter - I say "alleged" because 1) he has not yet been tried and convicted, and 2) I find it highly unlikely that an armed lunatic took an Uber ride to a school to shoot it up. In all the post-tragedy hysteria, though, there are some simple and generally overlooked issues that created the problem, and would be easy to remedy.

First, laws and agendas caused a large group of children to be gathered in a single geographical area with barricades preventing easy egress. Second, the area was designated and advertised as a "Gun-Free Zone," making it widely known that no one within that area could offer resistance. Third, the reason those children were collected in a target-rich environment was because of a wildly outdated concept called "school".

In the first instance, governments today thrive on the ability to indoctrinate large numbers of children into the authoritarian agenda. Removing the children from the control and security of their families for at least one-third of their lives provides ample opportunity to pound government-friendly concepts into the children's heads, and then manipulate peer-pressure to reinforce those ideas. Most public schools around the world are encircled with walls or fences, usually with barbed wire at the top, in order to prevent the children from escaping this onerous process, which the natural mind automatically abhors. If "school" was fun and interesting, there would be no need for fences, nor for laws that punish parents for NOT turning their children over for brain-washing.

The second issue is that, at least in the US, "schools" (among other target-rich environments) have been declared "Gun-Free Zones," and this fact is published with signs that encircle the area. These signs achieve two purposes, 1) it makes the victims of government brain-washing feel safe, and 2) it ensures that criminals know they are entering a safe zone for the commission of crimes, since no one will have the ability to repulse their attack with equal and opposite force.

In the third instance, "schools" are an antiquated concept that any more exists for the sole purpose of placing large numbers of innocent people in vulnerable locations where they can be easily manipulated. If you are able to read this column, then you already possess the solution to this problem - computers and the internet.

There is absolutely no valid reason for "schools" to exist any more. Talented teachers can deliver interactive lectures, study materials and books online. Pay walls can ensure those teachers get paid and in amounts commensurate with their skills and effectiveness, without engorged layers of administrators sucking up valuable time and resources with paperwork and other useless crap. The teachers and students are free to engage directly and parents can select teachers for their ability to deliver education that suits the family, not a bunch of bureaucrats and politicians and busy-body billionaires with social manipulation agendas.

A teacher can set up a complete online syllabus, with books, handouts, reading materials, and canned video lectures. He can schedule live interactive sessions where students can ask questions and receive personal attention. He can program online tests that score themselves, or in the case of essays, can score grammar and spelling, while the teacher only focuses on content. If the subject requires lab time, labs can be set up in central locations, like a mall or other public facility, or through time-share deals with a local university.

The student stays at home for most of her educational experience, where she is safe and comfortable, and under the caring and watchful eye of her parents. In fact, parents can study with her and (gasp!) perhaps learn something as well. She is also freed from all the social and political pressures that add nothing to the educational experience and are often more harmful than good. Furthermore, the student can work at her own pace at times that are convenient to her schedule, and there is no need for school uniforms and dress codes and other ridiculous doctrinal contrivances that waste so much time and money, and only serve to reinforce the submissive "authoritarian" mindset.

As an added bonus, all the land that is currently being used to lock up huge numbers of students can be freed up for more valuable and productive use. Most importantly, though, all those students are NOT conveniently confined in a single target-rich environment publicly labelled as such, and caged to prevent quick and easy escape.

Notice that in all the hype and hysteria over school shootings, no one ever offers the most obvious and simplest solution: get rid of schools. This is because it serves the government's dual purpose of having indoctrination centers and providing a source of fear that can be manipulated for political purposes. Having such insane and otherwise unnecessary penal colonies for children also serves to enrich a bunch of leaches called "administrators" who do nothing to promote education, and rather get fat off of stolen tax money while promoting inane and banal "education theories".

Given the incredible technology offered by the internet, why on God's green Earth do we still have schools, except to serve authoritarian agendas? One could get as good, and very likely better education from online facilities.
Talented teachers would make a lot more money with a lot fewer headache and administrative monkeys on their backs. The best teachers would be available to anyone in the world, anywhere and any time. All this comes with the added bonus of being a hell of a lot safer and more comfortable for everyone involved, not to mention being the ultimate in school choice solutions.

If the politicians and social agenda actors running their mouths across all the GeezerMedia right now were truly serious about finding a solution to school shootings, this one act would eliminate the problem virtually overnight, while also saving mountains of tax dollars and ensuring a great education for our future generations. It would also free up vast amounts of resources that could go to much better use, while empowering individuals on all sides through free market forces.

But then, it's not about solutions and education - it's about command and control.