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The Best Defense Against School Shootings Is... Canned Foods? (Barf Alert)
Tech Times ^ | 10 JAN 2015 | Robin Parrish

Posted on 01/17/2015 2:29:05 AM PST by BCW

School shootings are a very real and very serious danger. The last few years have seen an alarming number of deranged individuals — some of them students — march into their local school and open fire with powerful weapons.

Schools around the nation are coming up with preparedness plans like safety drills and procedures, many of them consulting with local law enforcement to educate students on what to do in the event of an attack. This is a good thing (albeit a sad commentary on our times). It's smart. Necessary.

But when most of us think of ways our kids can be protected or even defend themselves, I don't think this is what springs to mind.

That's right: a handful of schools across the nation are instituting a new policy that requires students to come to school with a can of food to use to defend themselves. Canned foods. As self defense. Against someone with a gun or a knife.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: cannedgoods; selfdefense
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To: BCW
And just as you're wondering how the American people get themselves into such a fix...
...the answer comes to you...
...loud and clear!

21 posted on 01/17/2015 6:02:18 AM PST by Savage Beast (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: BCW

Maybe just a pile of sticks and stones...why waste the food? It is still like bringing a knife to a gunfight. Libs won’t get it until the bullet enters their brain, but then they won’t be able to see their error.


22 posted on 01/17/2015 6:05:49 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$ Don't Defund the Government...Defund Obama and his illegal policies $$$$$)
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To: Gaffer

To heck with view ports. Classrooms need embrasures.


23 posted on 01/17/2015 6:18:30 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

So the teacher can shoot back?


24 posted on 01/17/2015 6:22:31 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
I'll get flamed for this but WTH. First i believe trained teachers should be allowed and encouraged to conceal carry. Second i believe ccw parents should be allowed to carry on school property. That's not the flamed part.
There are two kinds of school attacks: one by a single deranged person and one by a trained strike team. Defending against the individual is a matter of making it hard for them to find soft targets. In this case, a good alarm system giving teachers and students time to secure and barricade doors so the shooter can't get in. If he does throwing lots of cans, chairs, books, etc. at him will most likely cause him to move on. Of course a ccw teacher would be best. The objective is to keep the shooter looking for soft targets until the LEOs arrive. The students are not going to hunt him down in the hallways with cans of food.
Against a trained strike team there are going to be a lot of dead people. Armed teachers would have to decide whether it's better to stay and defend the class or venture into the hallway. Most likely they will be outgunned and having an arms room with automatic weapons, as suggested by one Denver talk back radio host, isn't practical. Heavy locked doors would be a plus in this situation too. Throwing cans in this situation would not be practical either but it would beat huddling in the corner doing nothing.
25 posted on 01/17/2015 6:54:29 AM PST by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: bravo whiskey

I won’t flame you. I think non-liberal teachers should be armed, myself.


26 posted on 01/17/2015 7:01:16 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: BCW

Well, it would finally be a good use for canned green peas.


27 posted on 01/17/2015 7:03:46 AM PST by jstaff
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To: bravo whiskey

Give the cans to the hungry. Bring a rock....better yet, teach Christianity!

No books to throw anymore, so they request cans.


28 posted on 01/17/2015 7:06:12 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: BCW
I wonder how successfully that tactic would work in this scenario...?

Day of Wrath

29 posted on 01/17/2015 7:56:05 AM PST by Gritty (Violence is coming to this country. Islam is a violent religion.-Franklin Graham)
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To: BCW

What if the intruder is armed with a banana?.....or a pointy stick?


30 posted on 01/17/2015 7:58:08 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: BCW

Remember ‘zero tolerance’?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3247063/posts?page=25#25


31 posted on 01/17/2015 8:12:27 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: Exeter

POST OF THE DAY - ahahah

Don’t give them any ideas ;)


32 posted on 01/17/2015 9:55:07 AM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits ye shall know them.)
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To: Gaffer

Make the desk tops out of ceramic armor plate. The kids can tip over the desk dot build a real defensive fort and the teacher can fire back through the embrasures. Better than cans of beans.


33 posted on 01/17/2015 10:53:50 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BCW

34 posted on 01/17/2015 10:56:35 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: BCW

More great ideas at Snopes...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/education/canattack.asp


35 posted on 01/17/2015 11:00:12 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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I have no objection to teaching kids to think about what to do in an emergency, how to weaponize anything that comes to hand. Heck, give them the chance to sit through the old MacGyver series. Granted, Mac had an aversion to guns, but he could make a weapon out of anything and that’s the type of thinking that kids need. I have no objection to guns, but don’t want them in the hands of kids at school. What I do want is for kids to be able to defend themselves should the need arise.

Back when I was a substitute teacher, we were told to make all the kids come into the classroom, turn out the lights, lock the door if you had a key (not all subs did) and make the kids sit up against a wall such that they could not be seen through any glass in the classroom door. Then, be QUIET. In other words, hide and hope for the best. While that may or may not work, I’d rather have a kid who could think on his/her feet and plan an offense should the need arise, or figure out an escape plan.

Sitting quietly and hoping for the best is not much of an option. Throwing cans could be helpful, or swinging them in a bag could help, too, but not that much, short of a sneak attack.

There are lots of things in the classroom or in bookbags or handbags that can be weaponized and kids need to be taught how to look at things in that light. Hopefully, this will never be necessary, but who knows?


36 posted on 01/17/2015 11:23:51 AM PST by Marty
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To: bravo whiskey

Huddled, doing nothing? Hardly. See what the World Religion teacher plans to do.

The W.H. Burns Middle School letter cited a couple of instances other schools’ employing canned goods in ALICE-inspired intruder drills, such as the Concord-Carlisle Regional High School in Massachusetts:

Each science classroom is equipped with cans of soup to be thrown at the intruder in the instance that the intruder enters the classroom. Many students and teachers have thought of more creative ways to handle the situation; textbooks, chairs, calculators, and other heavy classroom materials have been suggested as possible defense equipment. English teacher Kate Fleming even suggested equipping each student with a hardcover edition of Madame Bovary....World Religions teacher Ethan Hoblitzelle encouraged a calm state of mind during these drills by allowing his students to meditate.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/education/canattack.asp#i5mztGJDCWwPC3pb.99


37 posted on 01/17/2015 12:55:04 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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