An Oklahoma high school principal physically stopped a school shooter. Ran toward the danger. Put himself between a gunman and his students. And when prom rolled around, those kids crowned him Prom King.
Go ahead and try not to get a little dusty-eyed reading that. We dare you.
We spend so much time in this newsletter covering the villains — the grifters, the frauds, the politicians who couldn’t find their own spine with a GPS and a flashlight. And honestly, some weeks it feels like that’s all there is. Corruption here, incompetence there, some Democrat explaining why your tax dollars should fund interpretive dance therapy for incarcerated felons.
But then a story like this comes along and reminds you what this country is actually made of when the cameras aren’t rolling for CNN.
Here’s what happened. A shooter entered the school. We’re not going to give that person a single extra syllable of attention because they don’t deserve it. What matters is what happened next. The principal — a grown man who understood exactly what he was signing up for — charged straight at the threat and stopped it. Not a committee. Not a “multi-agency response protocol.” Not a social worker with a clipboard. One man who decided his students weren’t going to die on his watch.
That’s the kind of man who used to be the standard in this country. The guy who runs toward the fire, not away from it. The guy who doesn’t wait for someone to tell him what to do. And apparently, the students at that school know exactly what kind of man their principal is — because they gave him the crown at prom.
Unbelievable. In the best possible way.
Think about what those kids did for a second. These are teenagers. The same age group that the media loves to tell us is “lost” and “hopeless” and addicted to TikTok. The same generation that supposedly can’t look up from their phones long enough to hold a conversation. And what did they do? They honored the man who saved their lives. Not some celebrity. Not some influencer with 40 million followers and a skincare line. Their principal.
That tells you everything you need to know about who’s actually raising good kids in this country — and it’s not the coastal elites writing parenting columns for the New York Times.
You won’t see this story get wall-to-wall coverage on the networks. It doesn’t fit the narrative. The narrative requires school tragedies to end with a call for gun control, a CNN town hall, and a Democrat senator wiping a tear on cue. It does NOT include a story where a brave man stopped the threat with his own two hands and then got honored by the kids he saved. That’s a little too American for the people who run the evening news.
If this principal were a progressive activist who stopped the shooter by reading him a poem about inclusion, he’d be on the cover of Time magazine by Thursday. Instead, he’s a regular guy in Oklahoma who did an extraordinary thing, and his reward was a plastic crown from a bunch of teenagers who love him.
Honestly? That crown means more than anything Time magazine could ever hand out.
We talk a lot about heroes in this country. Politicians love the word. They throw it around like confetti at every press conference and campaign rally. But this right here is the real thing. No cameras. No publicity team. No book deal. Just a man who did what needed to be done and a group of kids who said “thank you” the best way they knew how.
Happy Easter weekend, folks. In a world full of garbage news and garbage people, Oklahoma just reminded us that the good guys are still out there — and sometimes the kids notice.
Somebody crown that man Principal of the Decade while we’re at it.
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