Of course there are other options
October 21, 2006
On the topic of school shootings, it seems that a different approach to the issue from a GOP nominee for State Superintendent of Education. In Oklahoma. Bill Crozier’s brilliant idea involves training students to use, of all things, their own text books to shield themselves from gunfire. He sent a video to the press showing himself with an AK-47 and a 9mm testing his plan on thick textbooks in an open field.
Two Text books failed to stop the AK round, a testament to Russian engineering indeed. A single book did stop the 9mm.
The idea is, of course, absurd. There is no way that a text book could protect someone from an armed opponent. Stopping a bullet doesn’t really help when the book is 11”by 9”.
At the very least, people are making an effort.
