Friday, October 20, 2006

Books for Bullets

In Oklahoma, an individual by the name of Bill Crozier is running for the position of state superintendent of education.  Crozier is proposing, as a protective measure for students, not to arm teachers in the classroom, but this,

...said he believes old textbooks could be used to stop bullets shot from weapons wielded by school intruders.

If elected, he said he would put thick used textbooks under every desk for students to use in self-defense.

Now there’s an election promise for you.  The only problem, as Bill demonstrated for teevee station KOCO in Okalahoma, is this.

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.

Though, in fairness, Crozier’s experiment was successful when handguns were utilized during the experiment.

The story is titled Candidate: Use Textbooks As Shields From School Shooters and comes complete with video.

Via Nobody’s Business.

Posted by John Venlet on 10/20 at 06:36 AM
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