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originally posted by: DAVID64
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
If they're gonna give'em slingshots, give'em buckets of ball bearings.
20 kids with Wristrockets loaded with those would be formidable.
originally posted by: DAVID64
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
If they're gonna give'em slingshots, give'em buckets of ball bearings.
20 kids with Wristrockets loaded with those would be formidable.
Buckets of rocks is the last defense
originally posted by: odzeandennz
our forefathers are rolling in their Graves.
originally posted by: namehere
when are american state governments and the federal government going to stop being such cheapskates and start putting money and time into the things we actually need? this behavior is starting to become dangerous in many small ways like this and a few more significant ways too.
i mean really.... rocks?
originally posted by: namehere
when are american state governments and the federal government going to stop being such cheapskates and start putting money and time into the things we actually need? this behavior is starting to become dangerous in many small ways like this and a few more significant ways too.
i mean really.... rocks?
originally posted by: howtonhawky
Welcome to the USA super joke of the world
where the kids end up as dumb as a bucket of rocks
rock on merica
originally posted by: SailorJerry
how bout employing all the dif equipment to keep the shooter from coming into the room in the first place?
I swear everyone is acting like theres just no solutions but these are just 4 of many and they cost from 15-bucks to 120 bucks, youre telling me these cant be implemented along with an alarm system over the P.A that tells everyone to lock down?
The buckets are just one of the measures that Blue Mountain School District in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, has put in place this academic year, along with security cameras, secured building entrances and fortified classroom doors,
“We didn’t want our students to be helpless victims,” Helsel said. “River stones were my idea. I thought they would be more effective than throwing books or book bags or staplers.” ADVERTISING
Helsel said the idea of equipping classrooms with rocks grew out of his reading of the active-shooter defense program known as ALICE, which stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate. He first spoke about the rock buckets in testimony at the Pennsylvania state house in Harrisburg last week. Helsel said his school board approved the rock buckets before they were put in the classrooms at the district’s five schools last fall. Parents in Orwigsburg, about 92 miles (148 km) northwest of Philadelphia, have been mostly supportive, he added. “It is so unbelievably tragic that our society has come to a point where schools have to arm themselves with buckets of rocks to defend the against active shooters,” said Robert Conroy, director of organizing with gun-control group CeaseFirePA. “We should be talking about real reform of gun laws.