Discussion: PA School District Gives Teachers Mini Bats As 'Tool' To Fight Potential Shooters

Well OK, and how soon will these mini bats be used for something other than protecting students from a shooter?

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But are they Louisville Sluggers?

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Bringin’ a pillow to a knife fight 2018

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Lame.

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Some bright, shining day when the shooter has to stop and change magazines oftener because high-cap magazines are no longer available for military-type weapons, there might be a moment or two where that damn bat might be of some help. Or a chair, or a heavy book, or one’s fists and body weight. On a brighter, shinier day, when those kinds of guns aren’t available at all, even more so. Until then, JFC don’t make an ass of yourself. Just tell everyone “run, hide, fight” because this society won’t protect its children. Just acknowledge that reality.

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WTF? Huh?

Well, at least they didn’t arm them with deadly fresh fruit, especially bananas.

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They are creative in some districts in PA. Another district arms classrooms with a bucket of creek rocks.

smh.

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Worried about “slip and fall” lawsuits, are we?

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The nuns used to call them rulers?

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Should add a slingshot to the bucket.

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TBH I’m not particularly concerned. Teachers who would swing a mini bat at a student would just as readily swing a yardstick, and those are already in classrooms. I see something like mini bats as mostly ineffective against an actual shooter, but an improvement over fists. It’s a more rational compromise than clear backpacks.

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Isn’t that kind of like your oncologist giving you an aspirin and vitamin C and saying, Good luck!

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reminder to fight a school shooter with any weapon available

This is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Hope these districts are fully paid up on their liability insurance.

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I would arm them with two large bricks.

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Someone stirred some Onion in my TPM this morning.

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Yes this is brilliant! Bring a mini bat to a gunfight, they won’t be expecting that! Sometimes the answers are just staring us right in the face…

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Vampire bats, maybe.

Mini Bats, no…

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