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I don't think I would want to face an assault weapon with a bucket of rocks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/03/23/this-school-districts-plan-to-stop-shooters-a-bucket-of-rocks-for-students-to-throw-at-them/?utm_term=.b3cae11131b1
David Helsel, superintendent of a school district in northeast Pennsylvania, explained his plan to a legislative education committee last week, drawing a flurry of local media coverage.
Every classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone, Helsel explained about his Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County, northeast of Harrisburg, in a video broadcast by ABC affiliate 16 WNEP. If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance into any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks, and they will be stoned.
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(20,868 posts)RKP5637
(67,103 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)gets their arm back for the throw. Where did all these brilliant minds come from?
RKP5637
(67,103 posts)KG
(28,751 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)RKP5637
(67,103 posts)are doing is going to be intimated or knocked down by someone throwing rocks at them.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)By a wide margin.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Onward repuglichristian soldiers.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Monty Python was about skewering the the obsurd, that "idea" is obsurd,
RKP5637
(67,103 posts)Greybnk48
(10,167 posts)They showed a bit about teaching teachers how to react to an attack by a gunman. One of the things they were proposing was to give everyone in the classroom tennis balls to throw at a gunman to distract him so they could rush him. They said they had to practice so they had developed muscle memory to do the tennis ball attack.
I'm almost 70, so I grew up during Bay of Pigs, Khrushchev and the treat of being nucked at any moment. We did drills where we were taught to get under our desks and scrunch up in a ball to cover as much skin as possible. Later they decided we were better off in the hallways huddled against the walls.
Truth be told, I grew up outside of Philadelphia, near D.C., NYC, Philly navel yard, Fort Dix, McGuire AFB to name a few nearby primary targets. If we had been nuked, we would have been vaporized no matter how much we scrunched! We were living a lie.
Scrunching in a hallway to protect yourself from a hydrogen bomb was a joke, very much like throwing tennis balls at someone with an AR-15 or something worse. They are living a lie.
No one needs military weapons, or any weapon designed to kill humans.
RKP5637
(67,103 posts)mindem
(1,580 posts)The obvious solution would be buckets of ball bearings and wrist rocket slingshots.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,841 posts)And I'm sure a classroom filled with first graders would throw those rocks ever-so-effectively.
Do I need the sarcasm thingy?