{"id":89767,"date":"2018-03-26T12:57:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=89767"},"modified":"2018-03-26T12:57:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T18:25:37","slug":"school-security-students-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/school-security-students-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"School District Tries Real Security After Saying Students Should &#8216;Stone&#8217; Intruders w\/ Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89779\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gastatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Egypt1_2097300b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"school-security-students-stones\" title=\"School District Tries Real Security After Saying Students Should 'Stone' Intruders w\/ Rocks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89779\" title=\"School District Tries Real Security After Saying Students Should 'Stone' Intruders w\/ Rocks\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Egypt1_2097300b-400x250.jpg\" alt=\"School District Tries Real Security After Saying Students Should 'Stone' Intruders w\/ Rocks\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Egypt1_2097300b-400x250.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Egypt1_2097300b-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Egypt1_2097300b.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the Arab Spring, Egyptian protestors armed with rocks face off with the country&#8217;s central security police.\u00a0 (<em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/egypt\/8986635\/A-year-of-Arab-bravery-how-acts-of-personal-heroism-brought-tears-to-Telegraph-correspondents-eyes.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"school-security-students-stones\" title=\"School District Tries Real Security After Saying Students Should 'Stone' Intruders w\/ Rocks\">EPA<\/a><\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The gun you have is better than the gun you don\u2019t, even if it\u2019s a .22 or a *cough* .38. But rather than arming teachers against intruders, one Pennsylvania school district announced last week a plan to arm students with a five-gallon bucket full of \u201criverstone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, after being soundly mocked by social and mainstream media alike, Blue Mountain School District Superintendent David Helsel has announced plans to hire a real security guard to protect the district\u2019s students.<\/p>\n<p>Helsel told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/03\/26\/school-that-arms-students-with-rocks-to-add-armed-security.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"school-security-students-stones\" title=\"School District Tries Real Security After Saying Students Should 'Stone' Intruders w\/ Rocks\">Fox News<\/a> that the influx of attention came from \u201csocial media posts that took comments out of context and misrepresented our actual planned responses to armed intruders (particularly with the planned use of stones).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThis unfortunate circumstance has increased our concern regarding the possibility that something may happen because of the media attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The schools do not allow teachers to be armed, but Helsel said that maintenance personnel have also acted as security guards in the past.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/academics-find-school-shootings-not-common-used\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"school-security-students-stones\" title=\"School District Tries Real Security After Saying Students Should 'Stone' Intruders w\/ Rocks\">Academics Find School Shootings Are Not More Common Than They Used to Be<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The comedy of errors began during Helsel\u2019s testimony before the Pennsylvania state legislature, in which he outlined the school\u2019s new safety program, ALICE (Alert, Lock Down, Inform, Counter and Evacuate).<\/p>\n<p>ALICE incorporates more than just stone-throwing. But that\u2019s the policy that earned Helsel national attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket full of riverstone,\u201d he said. \u201cIf an armed intruder attempts to gain access to any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks, and they will be stoned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State legislators failed to ask the obvious question\u2014whether Helsel was also <em>stoned<\/em> when he developed this proposal.\u00a0 But they did inquire if slingshots are allowed to help the students pummel the intruder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have some people who have some pretty good arms. They can chuck a rock pretty fast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt one time, I just had the idea of riverstone,\u201d Helsel told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HxSGO5Ei1JU\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"school-security-students-stones\" title=\"School District Tries Real Security After Saying Students Should 'Stone' Intruders w\/ Rocks\">local media<\/a>. \u201cThey\u2019re the right size for hands, you can throw them very hard, and they will create or cause pain, which can distract.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously a rock against a gun isn\u2019t a fair fight, but it\u2019s better than nothing,\u201d he continued. \u201cI\u2019m not sure why some people feel that it\u2019s more appropriate to be a stationary target under a desk in a classroom rather than be empowered to defend yourself and provide a response to deter the entry of an armed intruder into their classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEvery classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket full of riverstone,\u201d he said. \u201cIf an armed intruder attempts to gain access to any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks, and they will be stoned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":89768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,593],"tags":[132,607,122,640],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-jordan-michaels","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-r2kba","13":"tag-self-defense"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>School District Tries Real Security After Saying Students Should &#039;Stone&#039; 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