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leftupnorth

(886 posts) Tue Dec 18, 2012, 01:05 PM Dec 2012

Cool, non violent countermeasure to wackjobs with weapons of mass death

Awful hard to shoot what you can't see:

http://www.youtube.com/user/conceptsmokescreen

These should be standard issue in all schools in the country. have them triggered by gunshots or remotely by a student or staff member.

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Cool, non violent countermeasure to wackjobs with weapons of mass death (Original Post) leftupnorth Dec 2012 OP

Another idea - why not build schools with windows that people can get out of? downandoutnow Dec 2012 #1

Oh EC Dec 2012 #2

And how does this magic smoke stop bullets from striking children? rustydog Dec 2012 #3

How about a net gun with tazer units in it? WastedSaint Dec 2012 #4

downandoutnow

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1. Another idea - why not build schools with windows that people can get out of?

Reply to leftupnorth (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 01:09 PM

Dec 2012

Saw a picture of the Sandy Hook school - a pretty typical elementary school, only one floor.

School buses are required to have openable emergency windows. Why can't we have the same thing in school classrooms? I think one of the worst things about school shootings is that once the perpetrator is inside a classroom, the children in there have no where to hide or to run. If only those kids could have exited directly from their classrooms to the outdoors and then scatter. Give them a chance to escape and there's no way the shooter could have killed all those people.