Interesting.
But I have to ask: What type of gun did the bear have?
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And then be dead. A bear and a shooter are not the same thing. It would be far easier to ward off an animal like a bear, than a school shooter (except possibly in the case of a mother with cubs).
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Rocks?1? Okay, I remember in the wake of the shooting some commentators saying that a person with a handgun had no chance against a person with an AR-15 and I thought, “You guys are pushing this argument a bit far, in handgun vs. AR-15 within a school the winner is whoever gets the drop of the other person; firepower barely helps.”
But rock vs. AR-15? The firepower differential is starting to be pretty extreme there.
I read this and thought to myself, “What good do clear backpacks do when you can just walk down the street with an AR-15 slung across your back legally?”
But I looked it up, and apparently Florida somehow isn’t an open carry state. I learned something today.
No comment on which is better in the grand scheme of things but, “We’ll face death calmly and with dignity” is pretty much the opposite of “We’re gonna go down fighting even if we can’t win.”
And they’ve also become a symbol of government corruption because of the perception that politicians are on sale to the NRA.
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Firepower differential in this setting is less of an issue than need for precision. The bad guy is just spraying the crowd. No worries about precision at all. The good guy needs ABSOLUTE precision because any stray projectiles are likely to increase the body count. Police officers, trained and experienced in firearms, hit their target somewhere around 30% to 40% of the time. One suspects a teacher or other nonprofessional would be less accurate than that, esp in a very high stress situation which has not been seen previously.
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And they are expecting young children to be the ones throwing rocks, not just the teachers.
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I can think of a list of advantages and disadvantages that a police officer entering a school would have vs. a school shooter. I think one of the biggest factors would just be how willing the cop is to kill people. It’s pretty easy to imagine a cop waiting outside a classroom until the shooter emerges and shooting them before they even know the cop is there. It’s also pretty easy to imagine a cop yelling “freeze” and the shooter turning around and just shooting the cop because the cop was never really ready to kill a kid in the first place.
My imagination contains a lot less scenarios for what happens when a kid with an AR-15 walks into a classroom and starts shooting and the response from the kids in the classroom is to try to get to the bucket of rocks. Hell, from a self-defense perspective I’m pretty sure they’d be better off rushing the shooter without the rocks.
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I’m sure there are LOTS of prison protocols that we should apply to schools. “Sorry I was tardy, I got shanked in the cafeteria at lunch”
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Each child will have to have his or her own bucket of rocks, and carry it wherever they go.
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Using a bible is a nice touch.
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“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they’ve tried everything else.”
Attributed to Winston Churchill
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