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 on 10/20 at 06:36 AM

  1. Right here on my desk, I have two slugs that I dug out of a couple of books, this past summer.  These were books that I was going to throw away (believe it or not, that happens around here).  I put two of them together, to a thickness of something like four inches, and fired at them with different weapons just to see what the bullets would look like if they stopped.

    The .22 LR stopped halfway through the first one.  The 9mm Parabellum (147-grain Hydra Shok) stopped just before the rear outside hardcover of the second one.

    I don’t have a recovered 7.62x39mm because I never found one: it went clean through without hint of a pause, at fifty yards.

    Posted by Billy Beck  on  10/20  at  10:08 AM

  2. I was going to say that, as impetus to tramp out to a field and conduct further research, this idea—http://www.kcci.com/education/10127723/detail.html—would soon be forthcoming.  And just that bit of Googling showed that the idea has already come forth. 

    Well, guess I’ll watch that video, too.

    Posted by  on  10/21  at  10:56 AM

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