Saturday - October 21, 2006

Dumb Idea Of The Week

Not all Democrats are idiots. Take Joe Lieberman for example. By the same token, not all idiots are Democrats. Republicans have their share too. I won’t name any names but this fellow below definitely deserves honorable mention for the most idiotic idea of modern times.

Speaking of modern times, for someone to even espouse such a notion as using textbooks as shields durnig school shootings speaks volumes about our society. Personally, if I’m being attacked by a madman with a gun I’d prefer to have my H&K USP 45 handy ... with an extra clip, just in case the bastard’s still wiggling after twelve rounds of .45 ACP. Shovel some dirt over the corpse and walk away quietly. Don’t ask, don’t tell.

In lieu of having overwhelming firepower handy, I guess I’ll take my stand behind a copy of “War & Peace”, Tolstoy’s agonizingly looooong (1474 pages - hardcover) account of the War Of 1812 ... with a quarter inch of kevlar between pages 736 and 737. And when the shooter runs out of bullets I can bludgeon him to death with the book. And they all lived happily ever after. The end.

Candidate Seeks Textbooks As Shields
_{OKLAHOMA (FORBES) - 10.19.2006, 10:08 PM}

A candidate for state superintendent of schools said Thursday he wants thick used textbooks placed under every student’s desk so they can use them for self-defense during school shootings.

“People might think it’s kind of weird, crazy,” said Republican Bill Crozier of Union City, a teacher and former Air Force security officer. “It is a practical thing; it’s something you can do. It might be a way to deflect those bullets until police go there.”

Crozier and a group of aides produced a 10-minute video Tuesday in which they shoot math, language and telephone books with a variety of weapons, including an AK-47 assault rifle and a 9mm pistol.

The rifle bullet penetrated two books, including a calculus textbook, but the pistol bullet was stopped by a single book. Crozier said the demonstration shows that a student could effectively use a textbook as protection in a school shooting.

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokesman was skeptical. “He probably needs to take a look at some ballistics tests,” Lt. Pete Norwood said. “There are some rifles not even Webster’s Dictionary will stop.”

Crozier said he got the idea after the April 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. The idea gained momentum after a December 1999 school shooting in Fort Gibson when a 13-year-old boy wounded five fellow students. Crozier noted that a bullet lodged in books in one student’s backpack.

“You don’t know where they’re going to happen. You don’t know when they’re going to happen. There ought to be some kind of plan to react to it,” Crozier said.

Crozier faces incumbent Sandy Garrett, a Democrat, in the Nov. 7 general election. A spokeswoman for Garrett’s campaign, Kimberly Hawkins Sanders, said Garrett had no comment on Crozier’s idea.

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/21/2006 at 10:53 AM   
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