#019 : Intellectual insurance

Sydney Morning Herald, 30/10/06, p.18

Australian high schools are wrestling with the issue of Marxist bias in the curriculum, but American educators have a more serious problem - people who walk into schools and fire rifles. In Oklahoma City, Bill Crozier, a teacher and former security officer running for the elected position of state superintendent of schools, has a solution. Would that be tighter gun control, pethaps, or improved counselling services for troubled students? No, Crozier says the answer lies in thicker textbook~ which students can hold in front of themselves. To promote the idea, he has produced a 10-minute video in which his aides shoot maths, language and telephone books with a variety of weapons, including an AK-47 assault rifle and a nine-millimetre pistol.
"It is a practical thing; it ’s something you can do," he told Associated Press. "It might be a way to deflect those bullets until police got there." But Lieutenant Pete Norwood, of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said: "He probably needs to take a look at some ballistics tests.
There are some rifles not even Webster ’s Dictionaly will stop."