I Had A Thought; CCRKBA Confirmed It

As you have probably heard by now, there was a horrific shooting in Jerusalem at an Israeli seminary. A gunman got into the building and opened fire on teenagers. Many were killed.

When I first heard this, I thought I felt the Earth rumbling. Golda Meir, the fourth prime minister of Israel, was surely spinning in her grave. You see, it was the former PM who many years ago made the decision that teachers and staff would be armed at Israeli schools. Previously, gunmen and terrorists had attacked schools and school children out on field trips. After her decision, no children died at the hands of terrorists. Any attempt was met with instant defensive measures. Children going to school in Israel no longer had to live in fear.

For the head of that nation's government made a courageous -- and smart -- choice.

So at least eight seminary students lay dead and dying. I then noticed an anomaly in the news coverage. The reports had noted that an armed student stopped the gunman at the Jerusalem seminary before he could kill any more people. I heard this report several places. That he stopped the gunman, and that another individual, a seminary graduate and Israeli Defense Forces soldier, had heard the shooting, raced to the school, and finished the job the student had started. The killer was dead.

But then the media dropped any reference to the armed student, and only mentioned that a Defense Forces soldier saved the day. What happened to the armed student? Did I imagine it? CNN, in its latest coverage, isn't even mentioning that an armed individual stopped the carnage.

No. And thanks for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the U.S., no one else will either. They are blasting the world's media, particularly media in the U.S., for downplaying the heroic student who saved so many of his fellow seminarians' lives.

Both Yitzhak Dadon, 40, and Golda Meir, are heroes.