I am going to treat that as an honest question. A can is a solid object with weight behind it. A book will succumb to wind resistance. Obviously, you can't throw a desk and do damage. On impact, a phone will shatter, negating the energy of te impact, plus does not weigh enough to do damage.
Middle School Students Advised to Throw Canned Food at Active Shooters
Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by poncho, Jan 15, 2015.
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He's going to kill them anyway. And I've already debunked the "no hope of stopping him". See my earlier post where I went into it extensively.
I can't seem to get my point across here. Obviously, it's not ideal. But it's better than nothing. -
Had Herman Cain or Limbaugh come up with it, and educators objected, the story around here would be 180 degrees different. -
True Poncho...what you have said, not forgetting the breakdown of family and too many teachers acting as social workers!
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Also would add to this that if the teachers were armed, the distraction of several cans bombarding the perp's body would give the teacher that brief window to get a weapon & dispatch the idiot. -
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A much better solution.
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So it seems that this idea was not originated by "liberal educators" but comes from a police and security matrix. Apparently someone at a conference shared ideas on how to deal with active shooters, and this was one of them. And it's a last resort.
Here's the New York Police Department:
"If neither evacuating the facility nor seeking shelter is possible, building occupants should attempt to disrupt and/or incapacitate the active shooter by throwing objects, using aggressive force, and yelling."
http://www.alicetraining.com/wp-con...tive-Shooter-Research-and-Recommendations.pdf
Greg Crane, president of the ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate) Institute (a former cop, SWAT guy and now a security consultant) has defended the principal:
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Carpro's warning sign backed up by Smith Wesson and Colt. Rugers and Glocks are okay to.
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