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As classes were changing on the north campus of Ohio State University Monday morning (11/28), Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 18, drove his silver Honda into a crowd of students on the sidewalk, then jumped from his car and stabbed people with a butcher knife. Eleven were injured.

More would have been if Alan Horujko, a campus police officer who was in the area to check on a gas leak, hadn’t shot Mr. Artan dead about a minute after he began his attack.

“Once Artan jumped from the vehicle, witnesses say he lacked any focus, and ran from one person to the next attacking them, but not (thankfully) with any degree of skill,” said firearms expert Bob Owens. “Officer Horujko…saw the attack take place, and closed the distance to Artan within seconds. He ordered Artan to drop the knife, and when Artan failed to do so, he dropped him.”

We may never know why Mr. Artan attacked his fellow students, said Ohio Gov. John Kasich. The Politically Correct can’t find a clue when it spits in their face.

A Moslem of Somali descent who became a legal resident in 2014, Mr. Artan made clear his Islamist sympathies in Facebook posts. His method of attack was recommended by ISIS, which claimed credit for it.

Mr. Artan already had begun his dirt nap when the Buckeye alert system broadcast: “Active shooter on campus. Run. Hide. Fight.”

“Run Hide Fight” is a program designed by Dr. Steve Albrecht, a former San Diego police officer, to teach people how to react in mass violence situations.

“These attackers aren’t Navy SEALs, they are dumb or mentally ill guys who can be stopped,” Mr. Albrecht told the Columbus Dispatch. “You have to give people the mindset that we can fight back.”

“The softest, easiest targets in the United States are unarmed schools,” says counter terrorism expert Dom Raso, who was a Navy SEAL. “This problem is going to get way worse.”

Islamists target schools because nothing terrifies parents more than an attack on their children, Mr. Raso said.

“The second Democrats and the news media found out the attacker was a Moslem without a gun, the story vanished and tumbleweeds started rolling through the internet,” noted conservative columnist Kurt Schlichter.

Ignoring a threat doesn’t diminish it. “We will see our children murdered by the hundreds if we don’t pull our heads out of the sand and listen to the experts,” Mr. Owens said.

About 99 percent of mass shootings since 1950 have taken place in “gun-free” zones.

School shootings typically last six or seven minutes. When Seung Hui Cho killed 32 at Virginia Tech in 2007, police didn’t arrive at the scene until five minutes after he began shooting, didn’t gain entry to the building where the massacre took place for five minutes more, Mr. Owens noted. At the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut where 26 were killed in 2012, the shooter was dead for five minutes before police gained entry to the building.

An armed guard, supplemented by armed teachers or students, could reduce casualties in a mass shooting by about two thirds, studies conducted by the Homeland Security Institute at Purdue University indicate.

Islamists were the culprits in 2016’s deadliest mass shootings, in San Bernardino, CA (14 dead), and in Orlando, Fla (53 dead). In September, Dahir Ahmed Adan, 20, a Somali refugee, stabbed ten people in a mall in St. Cloud, Minn. Authorities foiled at least six other Islamist terror plots this year.

Most Moslems aren’t Islamists. But up to 40 Somali refugees have been ISIS terrorists, said Rep. Peter King, R-NY, a member of the Homeland Security Committee. We must be more careful about which Moslems we let into the country.

Those in authority who smugly repeat false narratives about gun control and Islamism rather than face the ugly facts will be nearly as much to blame for the next mass killing as will the terrorists themselves. May God forgive them. I won’t.

Jack Kelly is a former Marine and Green Beret, and was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force during the Reagan Administration.  He is the national security writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.