Candidate: "Use Textbooks As Shields From School Shooters"
One of Oklahoma's nominees for state superintendent of education has proposed a unique idea for protecting students from outbreaks of violence.
Bill Crozier, a Union City Republican going against incumbent Democrat Sandy Garrett, 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.
"Is there film?" you ask. But of course!
He gave Eyewitness News 5 a videotape showing he and others shooting weapons, such as an AK-47 and a 9 mm pistol, at books in a field near Minco. They conducted the experiment to see how far bullets would penetrate the books. (#1 on the list of things to do when you can't go deer hunting)
Here it comes. I can feel it. It's coming! THERE IT IS! That warm, fuzzy, feeling of pride, swelling up inside everytime one of my fellow Oklahomans does/says something so utterly moronic and is sure to capture said moronity on film so they can share it with the world.
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.
I am almost positive this is the closest he's ever been to a calculus book...
"We need to look at protection of young people that sometimes people may think you are a little smarter than everybody else or a higher IQ or whatever. They need to look at what the end result would be," Crozier said.
And me without my Hillbilly to English dictionary...
Crozier said he believes his test was not scientific. Instead, he said, he wanted to demonstrate what might happen if a student used a textbook as protection in the event of a school shooting.
"Not everybody would be saved in that situation, of course. But many of them would, and instead of running away or being lined up ... this is a way for the children to fight back," he said.
Not scientific? OMG I think it's WAY scientific!
And last but not least:
Representatives for current Superintendent Sandy Garrett said they had no comment on Crozier's ideas.
Comment? Are you kidding? If she keeps her mouth shut, she could get caught stomping on baby chickens and still get re-elected!
