If the Hells Angels have softened somewhat, others are toughening up—and we bless them for it. A school district in Erie, Pennsylvania, faced with the increasing frequency of school shootings, has passed out baseball bats to its teachers. That strikes us as a neat compromise between, on the one hand, cowering in unarmed fear and, on the other, arming teachers and administrators with firearms. The latter is of course favored by President Trump, but extremely unlikely to become policy any time soon.

True, the weapons aren’t full-length; they’re the 16-inch souvenir-style bats. But these can be wielded in one hand more easily and accurately—we wouldn’t want to be whacked by one.