Teachers now bringing mini bats to a gunfight.

My wife has a knife. And instructions from me to shove her wooden desk in front of her 2inch thick door and get her kids out the window and across the street behind a brick home.

I don't give a Damn what policy is. That's the safest thing for her to do.

It would still be the safest even if she was armed.

Ill say this for Louisiana cops, response time has never been an issue when ive called them

Isn't that a silly idea....bring a miniature wooden baseball bat to a gunfight. When I saw the story on tv, the first thing that came to my mind was this scene from "The Untouchables." "Isn't that just like a Wop? Brings a knife to a gunfight."

This reminds me of a comedian I heard after 9/11. “Screw TSA, just give every plane passenger a mini bat as they get on the plane and collect them as they get off. Someone gets out of hand or try’s to hijack the plane? 150 people swinging bats around in an enclosed space is going to end that real fast.”

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But seriously, the logic is confusing to me.

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It's ridiculous. By giving them a weapon they admit they need a tool to fight back against school shooters. But instead of giving them the best tool they can to defend the kids they give them a bat. Not even a real bat, but a mini bat.

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Isn't that a silly idea....bring a miniature wooden baseball bat to a gunfight

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Do you have a better proposal? I’m not saying it’s ideal, but armed is better than unarmed.

Fighting is better than waiting to be executed.

I wouldn’t want a teacher armed with a bat going looking for the shooter, but if my kids are hiding in a classroom, i would rather the teacher there with them to have a fight-back mindset and some sort of weapon if the shooter tried to get in their classroom.

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Do you have a better proposal? I’m not saying it’s ideal, but armed is better than unarmed.

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There are a lot of things that can be done to help protect schools and teachers. I'm all for giving teachers the capability to protect themselves and their students, but "arming"' them w/ a miniature bat to be used against guns doesn't qualify as protection. Even the school superintendent in the OP admitted, “The bats are more symbolic than anything."

A few things that come to mind: Develop a policy so that a teacher can be armed (concealed or in a secure spot in their classroom). This would be a voluntary program. The teacher would have to successfully complete a professional training program endorsed by the school district. The list of teachers approved to be armed would be known only to the principal (wbo would be responsible for implementing the policy) so that a "bad guy" would not know which teachers to target. All schools should have active shooter drills (we have drills for everything else). The drills would include more than just hiding in the classroom. Classrooms and schools should be upgraded w/ improved security measures and infrastructure. All schools should have at least one amred security/resource officer onsite who's willing to enter a fight.

Here are some interesting articles on the this topic.
"President Trump: Have Education Dept Mandate Active Shooterl Shooter Protocols"
"Israel Solved the School Shooer Problem, U.S. Should Follow"

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So you're telling me these teachers would be willing to bludgeon a kid to death with a bat but aren't comfortable using a firearm?

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No kidding. I take it they have never seen Casino. That scene still makes me shiver.