Why on earth...

... is this remarkable?

BURLESON, Texas (AP) -- Youngsters in a suburban Fort Worth, Texas, school district are being taught not to sit there like good boys and girls with their hands folded if a gunman invades the classroom, but to rush him and hit him with everything they've got -- books, pencils, legs and arms.

It shouldn't be remarkable at all. We drive defensively. We have the right to defend ourselves in court. How did we ever get to the point that self defense was a bad idea -- in a classroom or anywhere else? The fact that we've instilled in our children the idea that they should sit there and get shot is remarkable - and profoundly sad.

"Getting under desks and praying for rescue from professionals is not a recipe for success," said Robin Browne, a major in the British Army reserve and an instructor for Response Options, the company providing the training to the Burleson schools.

Part of me is so stunned by the obvious nature of such a statement that I'm at a loss for words.

The rest of me is like, "thanks for the tip, Captain Obvious." Check that .... Major Obvious.

Or course, the moonbat peaceniks have their 2 cents:

Hilda Quiroz of the National School Safety Center, a nonprofit advocacy group in California, said she knows of no other school system in the country that is offering fight-back training, and found the strategy at Burleson troubling.

Um, no -- her minset is troubling. Have we not yet had enough of these ninnies who willingly turn a blind eye to the obvious? Has this moron been living under a rock? Sitting quitely has been a pretty good strategy lately in schools - if you want to see kids executed before the cops can do anything about it.

"If kids are saved, then this is the most wonderful thing in the world. If kids are killed, people are going to wonder who's to blame," she said.

Um, the gunman will be to blame. Duh.

"How much common sense will a student have in a time of panic?"

More common sense than you have, you spineless worm. Sitting there and allowing yourself to be executed - in my not-so-humble opinion - shows a complete, drooling-in-your-lap lack of common sense. Lets teach 'em to fight back.