This school districts plan to stop shooters: Arming students with a bucket of rocks

[RKP5637]

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

One schools superintendent has a novel way to keep his students safe from school shooters: arming them with rocks.

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.”

[CountAllVotes]

1. Rolls of paper towels might work too!

[RKP5637]

2. Yep!!! n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

3. And the first student to pick up a rock will be dead before he/she

gets their arm back for the throw. Where did all these brilliant minds come from?

[RKP5637]

14. Exactly!!! n/t

[KG]

4. about as useful as arming teachers

[mythology]

5. The phrase like shooting spitballs at a battleship comes to mind

[RKP5637]

6. I have difficulty believing anyone armed with an assault weapon and knowing what they

are doing is going to be intimated or knocked down by someone throwing rocks at them.

[oberliner]

7. Better idea than arming teachers with guns

By a wide margin.

[Mc Mike]

8. The deVos plan calls for rock hurling practice to take place in lieu of dodge ball, in gym.

Onward repuglichristian soldiers.

[Blue_true]

9. For some reason, I see a perfect Monty Python skit in that idea.

Monty Python was about skewering the the obsurd, that "idea" is obsurd,

[RKP5637]

15. Yep!!! n/t

[Greybnk48]

10. On the news last night, I think CBS, it was tennis balls!

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]

16. Yep, same here, very similar. n/t

[mindem]

11. The stupidity is stunning...

The obvious solution would be buckets of ball bearings and wrist rocket slingshots.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Why not hand grenades? Or tear gas bombs?

And I'm sure a classroom filled with first graders would throw those rocks ever-so-effectively.

Do I need the sarcasm thingy?

[sarcasmo]

13. David Helsel, dumb as a box of rocks.