Florida school shooting: Pennsylvania students get stones.
Well, if you can't see the woods for trees now, then we're doomed. You know he gets paid to think like this, don't you?
The mockery of the public should be enough to pull-up anyone's 'now'-ism thought-processes at this point, but the possible
implications of this suggestion also takes us into a realm we were supposed to have evolved away from.
Stoning a would-be attacker as a form of defence is one thing, but what happens when the assumed attacker is overcome...?
Could it be that the children and teachers would take it a step further to halt a gun-man's actions by stoning him/her to death?
Are there other places around the world where this behavior is tolerated?
By the way, I love idea of specifying the actual condition of the aggregate, 'river stones'!!
One can see the headlines in a couple months: 'Quarry-men accuse the US Education system of Rockism'.
Quote:'A Pennsylvania superintendent has described his unique measure to protect students from potential school shootersSOURCE:
-arming them with buckets of stones.
David Helsel.
Blue Mountain School District Superintendent David Helsel told state lawmakers earlier this month that some classrooms
had been given river stones to throw at attackers.
He said the stone defence was intended as a last resort if evacuations failed.
The unlikely defence was revealed amid a national discussion on gun violence.
The national gun debate was re-ignited after 17 people died in a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, last month.
Survivors from the shooting have organised a national March for Our Lives demonstration on Saturday, where they will protest
in the US capital alongside other gun control advocates. Several high-profile celebrities and politicians have met the students
and are planning to support the headline Washington march.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is planning to ban devices that can modify semi-automatic rifles to fire like machine-guns.
Attorney-General Jeff Sessions said changing the laws to ban "bump stocks" was a critical step in reducing firearms violence.
It will entail the surrender or destruction of about half a million of the stocks owned by the public.
Five-gallon buckets
"Every classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone," Mr Helsel said at the state's House Education
Committee on 15 March.
"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. "We have some people who have some pretty good arms. They can chuck some rocks
pretty fast."
The unique defence initiative started circulating on Thursday after a video of the exchange was published online and picked
up by local news. The measure has been in place in the district's schools for two years already, Dr Helsel told Buzzfeed news.
He emphasised the measure was intended as a "last resort" and that lockdowns and evacuations were also in their planning.
He said he hoped to publicise the existence of the stones so they would serve as a deterrent for any would-be attackers...'
Well, if you can't see the woods for trees now, then we're doomed. You know he gets paid to think like this, don't you?
The mockery of the public should be enough to pull-up anyone's 'now'-ism thought-processes at this point, but the possible
implications of this suggestion also takes us into a realm we were supposed to have evolved away from.
Stoning a would-be attacker as a form of defence is one thing, but what happens when the assumed attacker is overcome...?
Could it be that the children and teachers would take it a step further to halt a gun-man's actions by stoning him/her to death?
Are there other places around the world where this behavior is tolerated?
By the way, I love idea of specifying the actual condition of the aggregate, 'river stones'!!
One can see the headlines in a couple months: 'Quarry-men accuse the US Education system of Rockism'.
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