I think LI jumped the gun and didn’t fully consider the advantages, disadvantages of the school board plan. Old technology doesn’t mean obsolete technology. Hollywood may not be the best example, as a slice of real life, but James Gardner demonstrated in Support Your Local Sheriff or was it Support Your Local Gunfighter the value of a well-chosen rock or rocks delivered to the target and efficiently. I can think of two instances, during my law enforcement career that a BFR was the difference between victory and defeat.  https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/03/pennsylvania-teachers-students-armed-with-rocks-to-combat-potential-shooter/

Consider this, give a boy infant a stone and he will try to eat it. Failing in that attempt, he throws it. All boys throw stones.

Country boys just never outgrow throwing stones. This means that in terms of lethality and accuracy a BFR may be a viable option.

I was a cop for thirty years, with fifteen of those years assigned to narcotics. I also taught SWAT, Patrol Tactics, and Tactical Operations for Narcotics Enforcement. I have over 1000 hi-risk search warrants and enforcement actions under my belt. As a police unit, we tried to have the latest and greatest in technology on hand. Rare was an operation where each member of the team was equipped with two pistols, and an additional MP5 and AR 15 in the stack. For all of that, I can think of two occasions where success or failure was measured by a BFR.

In the late 70’s a drunk got into an argument with his neighbors. To emphasize his displeasure the drunk fired a couple of shots into the air and then promptly ran inside his house and hid. SAPD SWAT was called and this resulted in a 24-hour standoff with the barricaded gunman. As the siege progressed, SWAT was instructed to conduct periodic demonstrations so that the gunman couldn’t sleep and to keep the tension high.

SWAT being cops decided nothing was worth doing unless done to excess. They started throwing stones at the house. Pretty soon every window was broken, but the gunman stayed. Some rocks penetrated the walls of the 100-year-old house. The gunman didn’t move. By three O’clock the next afternoon, the gunman decided that he had had enough. He was instructed to come out the front door. The gunman couldn’t move. He had spent the previous twelve hours ducking the barrage of stones, gathering them up, and stacking them against the front door. The gunman came out a window.

Twenty years later, I am the point man on a search warrant. The suspect has a reputation for violence and is supposed to be armed. The point man has two jobs (1) get the team to the correct house and door, open the screen/storm door so the guy with the ram can hit it, (2) be the first one in the door.

We pulled up to the house, the front door was standing open, but the screen/storm door was shut. As it turned out not only shut but well hung and locked. Experience has shown that slamming a glass storm door with a ram will result in glass cuts all around. The fact that the ram guy had discarded his tool because the door he was supposed to hit was open didn’t help matters.

I reached into the flowerbed and pulled out a cobblestone, announced a BFR on the way, and heaved it through the glass door. I then unlocked the storm door allowing the team to make entry. The crook within began his extended vacation at Club Fed for the next twelve years, that night, (no bond).

The cobblestone? Became a fixture in the raid van with the notation written on it in magic marker BFR, In Emergency Break Glass.

Is the BFR the solution to school shootings? I doubt it, yet the seeds are there. The problem is defined. A wide variety of entities are offering a wide variety of solutions. At what cost? What is the local populace willing to tolerate? This isn’t necessarily a dollars and cents issue. Guns don’t suddenly go on shooting rampages. It takes a person, usually, a person left to fester in their own malcontent quietly going crazier and crazier for all to see, but nobody bothers. The problem isn’t guns, it is the lack of safety net for the mentally ill and their families. Include in that police, prosecutors, and courts we all know who the crazies are but the system is no better equipped than the families in getting the wackos the help they need.