{"id":112770,"date":"2022-06-25T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112770"},"modified":"2022-06-25T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:24:09","slug":"diy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/diy\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>DIY<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The parent of one of my 10th grade students tagged me in a post\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">about a Do-It-Yourself solution in case of an active shooter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supply List 1<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heavy duty stainless steel wire rope (with loops)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stainless steel ferrule and stop<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stainless steel carabiner<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heavy duty wall mount ring<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Power drill<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diamond bits<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The teacher in the post said that she looked all over for something\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to keep the students and her safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She found her solution at Home Depot,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a business that got an F rating in 2019 for<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">supplying money to Congressional recipients of NRA dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supply List 2<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Union dues<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For this DIY project, the wire rope loops like a noose around the dummy door lever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (The dummy lever is one inch away from a glass panel.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The other loop joins the carabiner that is\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hooked to the wall mount.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(Don\u2019t ask for permission to drill into the wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0You\u2019re doing it for the kids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0You\u2019re doing it so that you all can make it home.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supply List 3<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Belief in miracles<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Health insurance<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Life insurance policy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anxiety medication<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I looked through videos that showed what an AR-15 can do to structures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is a guy who shows five different types of barriers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that AR-15 bullets can penetrate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I paid special attention to the one that looks like a wooden door and the cinder block wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(The trainer noted that the cinder blocks used in schools like mine were hollow.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bullets designed for the AR-15 are created to tumble when they make contact with flesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They rip at a velocity of around 3000 feet per second as they\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">plunge through the soft tissue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They destroy all of the organs in the regions they hit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They are not the types for bullets that usually lodge in the human body like they would a wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They make grand exits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supply List 4<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bleach<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gloves<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heavy duty paper towels<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trash bags<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trauma kit<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The magazine of an AR-15 can hold 30 rounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The class that the parent\u2019s child was in had 28 students in it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If we were in Uvalde, no one would have escaped the room alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supply List 5<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trauma and grief counseling<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">28 Sympathy cards<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">28 Floral arrangements<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lawyer for will<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Casket<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Headstone<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don\u2019t respond to the post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Don\u2019t know how to tell him that it will never work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Don\u2019t know how to tell him that I can\u2019t save his son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even if I lay my body on his,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bullets will still get through.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It won\u2019t be enough that I tried.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It won\u2019t be enough that I did it 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