Okay, go ahead and vote me down now...

In truth, with the nearly total lack of "real" security for those students...throwing canned food is better than nothing.

I'm not saying that armed teachers aren't a far better alternative, but if I was caught at home, unarmed, I'd probably pick up something to throw at an intruder too.

Of course, if I had a Pop Tart handy, I'd chew it into the shape of a gun and hold the intruder until police arrived...

I've heard of the poor soul who brought a knife to a gunfight -- but food cans?" Did they ever think about what would happen after the cans were thrown? If ever there was an incentive for a massacre....

And now I just pictured on-campus 'canning ranges' with radar guns to measure can velocity and with human-shaped silhouettes with circles and scoring numbers on them...

Another new product/service/industry/opportunity, not to mention instructor-training courses and all kinds of new insurance policy riders.... :)

this is like advising hikers to take bullwhips into
the mountains to tame the bears which they
might encounter. -- j