What is troubling in the VT shooting is that the survival instinct of the executed did not surface.  While we may yet here of people fighting back so far none have surfaced short of a single Professor.  I fear we are seeing the harvest of a social engineering experiement that has produced a generation of people conditioned to not strike back.  I should probably correct the statement that no survival instincts kicked in because some students apparently jumped out of windows rather than wait for their execution.  This is not quite the same as striking back to put an end to the threat.

I suspect that the people on Flight 93 that fought back against the Muslim hijackers were not of the same generation of those that stood against the wall at VT.  Perhaps if we begin to teach our young men to once more stand up to bullies, to fight back against evil and to set morality standards we will begin to see an end to these slaughters. 

I am a retired Army officer, I work often with active duty soldiers and my son is a Marine and when I speak with this new generation of fighting men I see the next greatest generation.  I am hoping that these young men and women that are currently standing and fighting evil will rise to political and civic leadership and create a new generation that will serve more than themselves and will stand tall when it comes time to fight back against evil.

My son was taught how to defend himself from a very early age and has done so several times to stop bullies, protect his sister and his friends.  His sister was also taught to defend herself and has done so in the past.  They are not bullies and they are  willing to put themselves between those with harmful intent and those that are unable to fight back.  More sons and daughters need to be taught how to fight back and to be able to properly define the difference between right and wrong.