Thread: New use for schoolbooks: Stopping bullets

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Saturday, October 21, 2006

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
New use for schoolbooks: Stopping bullets
Superintendent candidate wants old texts used as shields

Posted: October 21, 2006
8:24 p.m. Eastern


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With school shootings a growing concern across the country, a candidate for state superintendent of schools in Oklahoma is running on a platform of defense.
His idea? Storing old textbooks beneath the desks of all public school children for use as shields from gunfire.
In a videotaped experiment, Bill Crozier even went so far as to test various books and various firearms.
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Crozier, a Union City Republican challenging incumbent Democrat Sandy Garrett, said he would put thick used textbooks under every desk for students to use in self-defense.
Crozier's experiment began with shots fired at a calculus textbook from an AK-47 Russian-style assault rifle. The shot penetrated two textbooks at once. Shots from handguns were generally stopped by thick books.
"We need to look at protection of young people that sometimes people may think you are a little smarter than everybody else or a higher IQ or whatever," Crozier said. "They need to look at what the end result would be.
"This would be to protect the children in an immediate situation. This is something that any student, any classroom in the country could do immediately," he said.

This may be a good idea if the book is hardcover or thick enough. There was a man who was walking to his car and someone shot at him. He had a bible in his had and used it as a shield and that bible saved his life. It made the news and they actually showed the bible with the bullet's entry point and no exit point as it was lodged in the bible.

What a sad commentary on the state of our society that children need to use textbooks to stop bullets.

This is sad but it could be worse. Teachers could be forced to wear bullet proof vests, have body armor and carry guns or tasers. Not that would be really frightening.