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Maryland university buying bulletproof whiteboards
CNN ^ | Agu 17, 2013 | CNN

Posted on 08/17/2013 2:57:12 PM PDT by Innovative

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To: jz638

Yes, we shouldn’t laugh at efforts to provide defense. Rather than always glibly stating everyone should be carrying and all would be OK.

We also need to understand the subject here is duel-usage. Not adding totally different equipment.

My biggest problem here is no-one notices these are SMALL boards! I have no idea why an educational system is providing small boards. Seems a waste to me. You need big suckers - how is even a small class going to see it?

If they used a big board, makes more sense defensively, but then how do you utilize it? How would you get such down? Once in place, it would be nice, like being in the trenches.

The small board thing makes me nuts - what is the point of a small chalkboard?


21 posted on 08/17/2013 4:10:01 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Innovative

Follow the money.

This idea is too idiotic for words. Look at the video/pic. The demo shows something handheld, about 18”x18” is my guess. Not only would it not protect any students, it wouldn’t do much for the teacher, either.

I smell a payoff to a crony capitalist.


22 posted on 08/17/2013 4:25:16 PM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Innovative

The country has gone full tard.


23 posted on 08/17/2013 4:52:32 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Innovative
bulletproof whiteboards


24 posted on 08/17/2013 4:59:59 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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25 posted on 08/17/2013 5:09:49 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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Colleges are doing away with white-boards as fast as they can. Smart-boards are all the rage.


26 posted on 08/17/2013 5:09:57 PM PDT by esoxmagnum (The rats have been trained to pull the D voting lever to get their little food pellet)
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I assume that shooters will be required by law to supply notice of the intended shooting 24 hours in advance in writing so professors and teachers may practice tearing their bullet proof whiteboards from the wall and whimpering behind them.


27 posted on 08/17/2013 5:30:59 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The only growth industries left under Progressives are government and poverty.)
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18-by-20-inch bulletproof whiteboards designed to protect the user's head and torso

Great, what about the boys?

28 posted on 08/17/2013 5:37:18 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate." George F. Will)
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This idea is too idiotic for words. Look at the video/pic. The demo shows something handheld, about 18”x18” is my guess.

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18" x 20"

29 posted on 08/17/2013 7:01:34 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools - Solon, Lawmaker of Athens)
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To: Innovative; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

All the bad things that can happen in school shootings, and these morons are worried about WHITEBOARDS???

Hey, profs, when some of your black students at this historically black college are gunned down by some dummy of whatever race, you can at least be glad that your friggin’ WHITEBOARDS are bullet-proof! /sarc

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


30 posted on 08/18/2013 6:53:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Major brain damage at UMES, but no property damage!)
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Methinks, these clowns have seen too many action movies. I am just now getting a ridiculous mental image of the stupid marxists running while shielding themselves with their white boards.


31 posted on 08/19/2013 9:46:26 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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They should have bought guns and lessons for their professors.

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Exactly.

On the bright side, this contract is helping to employ some Marylanders. (Hope they’re all legal.)


32 posted on 08/19/2013 9:48:19 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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i8 x 20 inches ain’t gonna protect much torso.


33 posted on 08/20/2013 8:58:19 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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