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Pa. school district stocks classrooms with rocks to combat school shooters
MSN.com ^ | 3/23/2018 | Avery Anapol

Posted on 03/24/2018 1:19:43 PM PDT by Beave Meister

A Pennsylvania school district has armed its students with rocks to defend themselves in the event of a school shooting.

David Helsel, the superintendent of Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County, said at a state House Education Committee hearing on school safety this week that his district's classrooms are equipped with 5-gallon buckets of river rocks.

"If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance to any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks," he said. "And they will be stoned."

Helsel emphasized to Buzzfeed News that the so-called "go buckets" are a "last-resort" effort in the district's active school shooter defense plan, which also includes automatic door-securing technology and lock-in and lockdown procedures.

Helsel said that the buckets have been in classrooms for two years. Media outlets picked up the story this week after he spoke about the plan at the hearing. He said that he thinks news outlets have taken the plan "out of context to make it look silly."

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KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; despairinmotion; education; guns; pa; pennsylvania; schoolshooters; searchrocks; stoned; stones; trump
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Rocks not Glocks. I think these liberals are taking the "David vs Goliath" story a bit too literally.
1 posted on 03/24/2018 1:19:43 PM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

Don’t show up to a gunfight with rocks. Basic common sense.


2 posted on 03/24/2018 1:22:44 PM PDT by Track9 (If you want peace, kill your enemies.)
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To: Beave Meister

what is the killer also has a backpack of papers and scissors?


3 posted on 03/24/2018 1:23:01 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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To: Beave Meister
I agree, but I think it's better than a bucket of tennis balls. Give the kids a taste of self-defense and accomplishment and perhaps we get a backfire?
4 posted on 03/24/2018 1:23:37 PM PDT by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Beave Meister

We just need one student to go crazy with a rock and then those will be banned.


5 posted on 03/24/2018 1:23:46 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: John Semmens

Watch out, John, Ol’ Man Satire is hacking up his last breath.


6 posted on 03/24/2018 1:24:19 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Kid Shelleen

Well, based on the rules, he may as well leave the scissors at home.


7 posted on 03/24/2018 1:24:46 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Beave Meister
He said that he thinks news outlets have taken the plan "out of context to make it look silly."

It doesn't have to be taken out of context to make it look silly.

8 posted on 03/24/2018 1:25:10 PM PDT by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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> what is the killer also has a backpack of papers and scissors?

OMG! PAPER WRAPS ROCK! WE MUST BAN ASSAULT PAPER!

9 posted on 03/24/2018 1:25:57 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Kid Shelleen

Welllll... the rocks will beat the scissors, but not the paper.


10 posted on 03/24/2018 1:26:48 PM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: Beave Meister

Just preparing for when only the criminals still have guns. Disarmament of the lawful American citizen is coming.


11 posted on 03/24/2018 1:28:16 PM PDT by drypowder
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12 posted on 03/24/2018 1:28:24 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Beave Meister

Just wait tell somebody pegs a teacher with a rock!


13 posted on 03/24/2018 1:29:50 PM PDT by W. (.44 Magnum. No further questions needed.)
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To: Beave Meister

Remember, kids: when your school’s friendly resource officer chooses their retirement over your protection, feel free to ROCK OUT!!!


14 posted on 03/24/2018 1:29:51 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Beave Meister

I don’t recall the Constitution saying it is ok to stone people.


15 posted on 03/24/2018 1:31:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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If Zimmerman had bashed in St Trayon’s head with a rock they’’d be just as pissed


16 posted on 03/24/2018 1:32:26 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: Beave Meister

5-gallon buckets?? No one needs that much firepower!!


17 posted on 03/24/2018 1:33:03 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I'm still somewhat onboard but very disappointed. Not so much "Winning" lately.)
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To: Beave Meister

Hey, I bet they saw the movie, “Support Your Local Sheriff”! ;-)


18 posted on 03/24/2018 1:40:58 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
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And what happens when some little Trayvon uses those rocks on the teacher?

They know now that they won’t be expelled in many schools


19 posted on 03/24/2018 1:46:16 PM PDT by digger48
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To: ClearCase_guy

Stupidents please line up here for the rocks.
One rock per person.
Go back to your station.
Identify the shooter with gun.
Throw the rock into his aiming eye.
Duck!
Feel good!
Call 911 and report the incidente.
Go march for whatever is on the menu paid by LibeRats.


20 posted on 03/24/2018 1:47:57 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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