This school districts plan to stop shooters: Arming students with a bucket of rocks

[hvn_nbr_2]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/03/23/this-school-districts-plan-to-stop-shooters-a-bucket-of-rocks-for-students-to-throw-at-them/?utm_term=.d28e721641f2

David Helsel, superintendent of a school district in northeast Pennsylvania, explained his plan to a legislative education committee last week, drawing a flurry of local media coverage.

“Every classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone,” Helsel explained about his Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County, northeast of Harrisburg ... “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.”

How accurately will those students throw rocks when they're stoned?

The "bucket of rocks" responses write themselves, I'd say, as in "dumber than..."

Note: This is not the Onion. This is not satire. This is real.

[Motley13]

1. a rock, faster than the speed of a bullet, especially from AR 15s

[oberliner]

2. This is like the 5th or 6th time this story has been posted

And every time I make the same comment.

This is a more sane idea than arming teachers - which people actually take seriously.

[guillaumeb]

3. Who thinks about throwing rocks when they are stoned?

The only way to stop a bad man with a stone is with a good student with a stone.

[Iggo]

4. "...and they will be stoned."

Well...somebody's stoned.

That's for sure.

[magicarpet]

5. Mary Jane brownies just before target practice....

..... what could go wrong ? Have fun kids.

[shanti]

6. You can't make this up!

[Initech]

7. Did they go to the Betsy DeVos school of protecting one self from bear attacks?