Beware of school officials who say, “I have such a belief in the positive goodwill and good intentions of all people.” They won’t protect your children from bullies or assassins. They’ll coddle, therapeutize or avoid those killers.
Cameron Rust is currently the Defensive Coordinator for the Varsity Football Team, the head Sophomore Baseball Coach and one of the three security guards at Arapahoe High School.
In a blog post, he reveals that the administration of Arapahoe High School had been warned by the security guards numerous times of the menace posed by Karl Pierson, 18, long before he appeared on campus with a 12-gauge shotgun, machete, Molotov cocktails and more than 125 rounds of ammunition. He shot fellow senior Claire Davis, 17, and minutes later killed himself, but authorities have said the weaponry he packed was a sign that he meant to harm many. Claire died eight days later.
The school administration did nothing to stop Mr. Pierson.
The details will be argued about for a long time. The high school administration will present itself as stuck; unable to do anything to stop Mr. Pierson until he had actually committed a crime. Mr. Rust’s motives and statements will become the focus of the Littleton School District administrators’ defense.
A quoted statement by Littleton Public Schools Superintendent Scott Murphy, reported in the Denver Post, tells us exactly what happened. In response to pointed questions, Mr. Murphy said, “I have such a belief in the positive goodwill and good intentions of all people.”
Beware. District Superintendent Murphy just used code words that speak volumes.
He can’t believe that anyone would shoot unarmed kids in a school. His kids all have “positive goodwill and good intentions.” And Arapahoe High School is a few miles from Columbine High School.
He is more concerned with the psyche and eventual rehabilitation of Karl Pierson than he is in protecting the other kids at Littleton Public Schools. He’d throw all his resources at Karl Pierson. He’d do nothing to remove Mr. Pierson because he believes “…in the positive goodwill and good intentions of all people.”
Murphy didn’t choose Claire Davis as the lamb he sacrificed for his beliefs but he was offering up at least one of the children in his care.
Anyone who says, “I have such a belief in the positive goodwill and good intentions of all people,” will do-nothing to stop the Karl Pierson’s of the world. They will all them to harass, threaten, bully and abuse while they hope that one more chance will finally give the Karl Pierson’s enough chances to overcome their desires to slaughter people.
As long as we tolerate administrators who believe like Murphy, we will open our doors to assassins like Pierson and we will have many more innocent victims like Claire Davis.
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