If a target is “soft,” that means it’s vulnerable. So let’s protect targets by hardening them, starting with schools.
The various proposals have a common thread: Effective hardening of a target involves the interplay of identifying, deterring, and neutralizing the attacker.columnist, Kathleen Parker—a onetime conservative who has moved fashionably, if not completely, to the left–The very least we can do is make sure every school in this country is safe from predators, no matter the cost. And, yes, train and arm the teachers who are willing. No more fooling around.
And yet the apparent failure of the Uvalde authorities is a sobering reminder that absent strong leadership, a deterioration of professionalism can happen to any organization.So the coming investigation of the Uvalde tragedy will serve as an opportunity for the nation to learn about how to harden a target.
Have procedures for dealing with troublesome students and others made it easier for them to become menaces to society? We can observe that the American Civil Liberties Union and other liberal-left leniency groups have often intervened in a school’s “discipline matrix”—and such outside intervention was a major factor in theAuthorities should also ponder what technological solutions might be possible. A May 27 Breitbart NewsOfficers could not see into the classrooms to determine where the shooter was and what tactical advantages he might have.
In 2000, the Jewish state suffered just four suicide bombings; the following year, that number jumped to 35, and year after that, the number of attacks spiked to 53.And yet Israeli homeland security officials developed better strategies—everything from detection-tech to human profiling to counter-intelligence—and beat back the problem.zero