Should students be armed with cans?

[encorehunter]

I'm sorry, but I guess I would like to have something that I could try and defend myself with. I think we are having a difference of culture here. I'm was country kid, not a city kid. I think there is a big difference there. I was brought up to take care of myself. I agree the younger the kids get, the less likely they could throw hard or açurately. When you get to 9-10 years old, a country kid has thrown a lot of rocks. If they understood when to throw the cans at the attacker would be another question. Don't throw unless you can't escape or evade.

[Sawin]

I'm sorry, but I guess I would like to have something that I could try and defend myself with. I think we are having a difference of culture here. I'm was country kid, not a city kid. I think there is a big difference there. I was brought up to take care of myself. I agree the younger the kids get, the less likely they could throw hard or açurately. When you get to 9-10 years old, a country kid has thrown a lot of rocks. If they understood when to throw the cans at the attacker would be another question. Don't throw unless you can't escape or evade.

That's more in line with my thinking/experience too. I am 100% FOR the empowerment and awareness mentality and teaching it to our kids, but giving them a canned good and equating it to a defensive tool, when we already know it's woefully inadequate and will be a failure in nearly all foreseeable conditions.... I want my kid to get the F outta there as fast a humanly possible.

If they were to train as a team, such as with sports, and each had a "game plan" for an event such as an attack, then we'd be having a different conversation right now.... but simply giving them a canned good without any kind of teamwork or plan in place, is basically worthless in my opinion.