Survivors of the Parkland school shooting are leading hundreds of thousands in a “March on Washington” today.
They’ll be marching under the banner “March for Our Lives,” hoping against hope that this march will do for gun control what that famous march did for civil rights in 1963.
Meanwhile:
A rural Pennsylvania school district has equipped all 200 of its classrooms with buckets of rocks that students and teachers could use as a ‘last line of defense’ in the event of a school shooting, the district’s superintendent said on Friday.
(Reuters, March 23, 2018)
This bucket-of-rocks strategy puts a tragicomic twist on the biblical story of the rock-slinging David vs. the poor-sighted Goliath.
Except that these little Davids would be forgiven for wondering whether a potential mass shooter or the present armed teacher is their Goliath.
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