Now something that's very important to us in this country is the safety of our school children.
Understandably so.
But we can't all agree on how best to protect them.
And now we have this article.
Alabama Middle School Principal Tells Kids to Bring Hand Goods to Class and Throw Them at Possible Gunmen.
Here's a note that a parent received from the school.
And this is W.F. Burns Middle School.
And we'll show you a little bit of this training.
It's called the Alice Training Program.
I'm hearing a gun.
To repeat, there is a gun that can be two more followed moving toward the main hall.
Holy crap, they got a gun!
Oh my God!
Terrible!
Wait a minute, that's not how I'm supposed to go.
You said they should keep moving and throw things.
They didn't do either of those things.
No, they followed their natural instinct to hide.
And what did that make them?
Saving duck.
Bye.
Right, and sitting ducks makes easy targets, and we don't want to make anything easy for the intruder.
Can we try again?
- Absolutely.
- Yay! - He's wearing a black trench coat with an orange ski mask and carrying a gun.
I repeat, there is a gun that made a shooter's hallway moving toward the main hall.
- Boy crap, I had a gun! - And this is this particular program.
They don't do this at every school, but this school is participating in this program.
And while I do applaud them for not being sitting ducks and actively trying to defend themselves, I think a much better strategy would be to simply arm the teachers.
You have the principal.
You have the janitor.
Maybe there's a locked cabinet, a gun case someplace where a teacher has an access key.
Or in some places, like Harold ISD in Texas, they are...
Every one of the plans in the United States and schools' emergency plans are to lock the doors and hide the kids.
Well, that was disturbing to us because we're 30 minutes from law enforcement.
We had no way to protect ourselves, and there wasn't anybody around to take care of us.
We were our first responders.
I came up with a plan, and the plan has been on the news a lot.
It's a pretty self-explanatory week.
They have to have a CHL. We approve them.
The board approves them individually.
We undergo some extra training.
And then we use frangible ammunition, which, you know, breaks apart when it hits hard objects, to avoid ricocheting.
And to me, that's a much better plan than having your kids throw canned goods.
Once again, you know, kids protect yourself most definitely.
But if you have armed teachers...
Whether it's a teacher that carries concealed or they have some type of gun case, like I said, the principal or the janitor, maybe you have a few of these scattered around the building.
If there is a scenario, you would be better able to defend yourselves.