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packman

(16,296 posts)
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 12:31 PM Mar 2018

Repuke Plan for School Shootings - Arm teachers with fire extinquishers

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Shawn Moody, a leading Republican candidate for governor of Maine, told local radio station WVOM that fire extinguishers "can be a great deterrent" in an active shooter situation. He suggested that teachers could arm themselves with the frothy cannons the next time someone decides to go on a rampage with a military-grade assault rifle at a school, because, apparently, covering a gunman in white foam will stop him right in his tracks.

At the release of his plan, the NRA immediately withdrew funding from his campaign


https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzpjzv/one-republicans-plan-to-stop-mass-shootings-fire-extinguishers-vgtrn
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Repuke Plan for School Shootings - Arm teachers with fire extinquishers (Original Post) packman Mar 2018 OP
I'm speechless. Chipper Chat Mar 2018 #1
I had this plan for my first grade classroom after Sandy Hook! BigmanPigman Mar 2018 #2
Sounds workable to me - packman Mar 2018 #3
Their staplers sucked and broke constantly. BigmanPigman Mar 2018 #4
Here they use wasp spray sarah FAILIN Mar 2018 #5
Old farmers trick. Throck Mar 2018 #8
if fire extinguishers are a great self-defense option, Bad Thoughts Mar 2018 #6
Amendment 2B ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #7

BigmanPigman

(51,567 posts)
2. I had this plan for my first grade classroom after Sandy Hook!
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 12:43 PM
Mar 2018

He stole my idea sort of. On the last day of class before Winter Vacation Sandy Hook occurred. In the weeks before going back to class I thought of my own plan. The classroom doors can only be locked FROM THE OUTSIDE and only opened OUT so you can't barricade them (sorry teacher, your life doesn't matter enough to change the doors). My plan was to get behind the door with the fire extinguisher held over my head, knock the shooter unconsciense, have the kids run to the office, tie him up with the jump rope, boil a pot of water in my microwave and be ready to scald him if he woke up and "came to". It was my only option as self defense. I couldn't harm him very well using my globe, a glue stick and a ruler.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
3. Sounds workable to me -
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 12:46 PM
Mar 2018

Suggest you forward it to RNC headquarters - I notice you didn't employ your office issued stapler. Don't overlook that weapon.

BigmanPigman

(51,567 posts)
4. Their staplers sucked and broke constantly.
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 12:49 PM
Mar 2018

I had to buy my own and I wrote my name on them too. Teachers spend tons of their own money and make peanuts.

Throck

(2,520 posts)
8. Old farmers trick.
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 01:19 PM
Mar 2018

A friend's daughter was assaulted at the family vegetable stand. She hosed him. He was in handcuffs in the ambulance.

ProfessorGAC

(64,852 posts)
7. Amendment 2B
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 01:15 PM
Mar 2018

We all have the right to keep and bear fire extinguishers. Set up the constitutional convention stat!

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