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Pennsylvania school district arms teachers with small baseball bats as 'last resort'

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Pennsylvania school district arms teachers with small baseball bats as 'last resort'

A Pennsylvania school district's decision to arm teachers with tiny wooden baseball bats in the event of an active shooter situation is not a hit with parents.

The Millcreek Township School District outside of Erie gained attention this week for handing out the 16-inch bats to about 500 teachers as part of a training that included how to react during a school shooting.

"We passed them out, with the goal being we wanted every room to have one of these," Hall said of his district of more than 7,000 students. "Unfortunately, we're in a day and age where one might need to use them to protect ourselves and our kids."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...chers-small-baseball-bats-last-resort-n864986


It's almost seems like they are mocking the situation. Who really thought this was a good idea? If you are not going to effectively arm teachers in your school, don't do anything at all. It's an insult.
 
holbritter said:
Pennsylvania school district arms teachers with small baseball bats as 'last resort'

A Pennsylvania school district's decision to arm teachers with tiny wooden baseball bats in the event of an active shooter situation is not a hit with parents.

The Millcreek Township School District outside of Erie gained attention this week for handing out the 16-inch bats to about 500 teachers as part of a training that included how to react during a school shooting.

"We passed them out, with the goal being we wanted every room to have one of these," Hall said of his district of more than 7,000 students. "Unfortunately, we're in a day and age where one might need to use them to protect ourselves and our kids."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...chers-small-baseball-bats-last-resort-n864986


It's almost seems like they are mocking the situation. Who really thought this was a good idea? If you are not going to effectively arm teachers in your school, don't do anything at all. It's an insult.
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Gotta love it when squeamish liberals come up with a plan.
 
holbritter said:
It's almost seems like they are mocking the situation. Who really thought this was a good idea? If you are not going to effectively arm teachers in your school, don't do anything at all. It's an insult.
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It does seem like they're mocking school shootings, and I'm sure the blow-back they get from this will be huge.

Plus, it puts a teacher/student/whomever can grab the bat, at the distinct disadvantage of having to try and get close enough to the shooter to physically smack him with the bat. Were it all that simple to get close to shooters -- and live -- we'd have students and teachers rushing them right now.

This borders on the unbelievable. I'm pretty sure it will be up for a Darwin Award somewhere.

But, there's one slight upside -- the school district is admitting that a defense of some sort is necessary. That's a step up from all the just-ban-guns-and-it-will-all-be-rainbows-and-unicorns idealism.
 
HowardBThiname said:
It does seem like they're mocking school shootings, and I'm sure the blow-back they get from this will be huge.

Plus, it puts a teacher/student/whomever can grab the bat, at the distinct disadvantage of having to try and get close enough to the shooter to physically smack him with the bat. Were it all that simple to get close to shooters -- and live -- we'd have students and teachers rushing them right now.

This borders on the unbelievable. I'm pretty sure it will be up for a Darwin Award somewhere.

But, there's one slight upside -- the school district is admitting that a defense of some sort is necessary. That's a step up from all the just-ban-guns-and-it-will-all-be-rainbows-and-unicorns idealism.
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Did you see the size of the 'bat'? The only defense against a shooter with that is if they can't shoot because they are laughing too hard.
 
holbritter said:
It's almost seems like they are mocking the situation.
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There are a couple threads on this already at least, but that's what I thought. Make a mockery of the situation as a sort of way to bootstrap a "guns on teachers" type proposal - get them mocking this, then say "ok, so how about a gun?"
 
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