This is about the stupidest idea I have heard in the area of self defense (ok, just period) especially in the case of an armed bad guy attacking a school (or any other soft target). Serious – slowly throwing canned grocery items by middle schoolers at someone firing 9mm, .45, or .223 back at them? What does Principal Princella Holley want to recreate – a pint-sized charge of the Clueless Brigade? And her Superintendent isn’t much better:
A Valley middle school is asking students to bring canned goods to school in an effort to fight off intruders in the event of an active shooter situation. The administration at W.F. Burns Middle School sent a letter to parents asking each student to bring an 8 oz. canned food item to use in case an intruder enters the classroom.
Yeah, just chuck a can of tunafish at’em – water packed however, we don’t want to bring in a Hazmat team to clean up the environmental disaster that is “tuna packed in oil”, dontcha know.
“We realize at first this may seem odd; however, it is a practice that would catch an intruder off-guard,” the letter reads. “The canned food item could stun the intruder or even knock him out until the police arrive. The canned food item will give the students a sense of empowerment to protect themselves and will make them feel secure in case an intruder enters the classroom.”
Odd? I’m quite sure that I am NOT the only word slinger that’s either having surgery from laughing too hard or just bug-eyed for the inanity coming out of those that are supposed to be educating our kids. Let me see if I have this straight – someone firing comes into a room and all these scared kids are supposed to launch a coordinated volley of cans at them in hope that “could” becomes reality? Reality says that only about 1/2 the kids will remember about the cans and MAYBE a few get launched – you REALLY think that’s gonna stop someone hellbent on mayhem and a few days of fame (dead or alive)? This is an absolute example of educators proving the stat that most teachers were in the lowest third of college students in SAT scores.
Empowerment – have we reduced that concept, too, to the level of “feel good about yourself if you can ding the shooting guy in the forehead”? These teacher have about as much of a grip on reality as what they see of gun battles in the movies.
Empowerement – used to mean learning a new skill or attitude that would be useful in the future. This empowerment? Will only get them dead from a falser sense of self-esteem.
