Should students be armed with cans?

[68Charger]

Sounds like a fun one for the shoot house. Bring a bin of commonly available items found in a classroom. The items can be randomly scattered around the room. 21 on 1 seems fair if only the aggressor has a firearm and the aggressor gets to choose the time to attack while the 21 perform meaningless tasks over a half hour period.

My guess is the most successful option would depend on how quickly the defenders recognize the threat and whether they gang rush the aggressor quickly enough to limit the damage.

I would think the video from the exercise would look like French police storming a super market with similar results.

Be safe.

Put a tennis ball launcher that is triggered by a target at a stage... fires tennis balls back at the shooter from a different location.
(not that we'd be training to counteract this scenario, it just seems like an interesting stage)

Not to mention your average students reaction is probably going to be flight, not fight.

Bingo- and I'll add additional on top of that... IF you tell them they could possibly stop an attacker with a can of peas (unrealistic), then how do you deal with their emotional/psychological state after when it doesn't work (assuming they survive for another reason) or how do you explain that you made children targets by telling them to come out of hiding and throw a can of peas at them. This is along the same lines as the "pee on your rapist, that'll stop them" thinking.

I heard of this scheme as well. My first thought was that at least the someone has self defense in mind. Empowering people and teaching them to refuse to be victims could be only the first step. Towards what I'm not sure. I imagine twenty or so soup cans being hurled at an attacker would have a distracting effect. There would also be the possibility of slipping on the cans once they were all over the floor. In the end though we can all guess what happens when you bring a can to a gun fight.

As a side note, I participated in a defensive pistol scenario that began by throwing a bottle at the nearest popper before drawing your pistol and engaging other targets.

The take away from this would be "At least they realize that their current method doesn't work well"... but this 8oz can idea is just dumb.