Alabama middle-school principal asks students to bring canned food to throw at school shooters

I think the shooter will have the advantage over you as you try and get your lighter to work. :-0

A Taser (not a mere stun gun) or pepper spray would be better than WD40 or cans. Or making your desk into a bullet proof hidey hole - that would probably be better than all the other possibilities.

I, for one, welcome our persistently annoying masters!

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People got a bit sniffy when I turned up at work with a bucket of jellied petroleum and a stirrup pumpā€¦

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In the worst case, you can use the spray without igniting it. Aim for the eyes.

A way better thing than a stun gun would be a Sten gun.

Itā€™s bullet-resistant. Nothing is truly bullet-proof. See the Staballoy projectiles from the A-10 Warthogā€™s cannon. Itā€™s also a good thing to specify the desired level of ballistic protection (according to e.g. the relevant STANAG spec, or we can maybe borrow the NIJ-0101.04 standard for body armor, though a ballistic desk is not exactly one, but I am not in the mood to look for standards for shields. Maybe later? Or somebody else? Prod?).

What about a school desk made from two plates of half-inch steel, with about an inch or two of concrete in between? The distinct advantage would be that the students couldnā€™t carve into the desks.

There may be some reduction of the firepower, but it still may be good.

A slo-mo shot of a wd40 fire test. Year-old video, you can compare it with your experience and see if the inert propellant worsened the performance.

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Indeed, I admit my error in using a colloquialism. I bow to your ballistic pedantry. And now I live in terror of an office shooter carrying a 30 cannon terminator-style through an office thatā€™s woefully under prepared with mere class III armored desks.

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In the world of ballistic specifications, colloquialisms can kill! :smiley: Pew pew!

Even then, you could be able to increase your chances by tilting the desk.

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Theyā€™d find a way.

Given the ready availability of food:

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