>the "blue states" have lower divorce rates (and maybe murder rates, haven't
>checked it)
One of those murder rates should be going down if this idea gets legs. (via Sam Smith's Progressive Review)
>GREAT IDEAS FROM GOP CANDIDATES
>
>KOCO, OK - 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.
>
>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. "We are doing this as an experiment because at Fort
>Gibson, many young people were shot in the back," Crozier said in the
>videotape, referencing a December 1999 middle school shooting in eastern
>Oklahoma, in which a student wounded four students with a 9 mm
>semiautomatic handgun. . .
>
>http://www.koco.com/news/10105982/detail.html