Maine candidate: Fire extinguishers 'great deterrent' for guns

[Igel]

22. Okay.

One, not every teacher could get one.

Two, some classroom doors are necessarily within a few feet of a fire extinguisher.

Three, you go into the hall to round up stray kids and get them to safety. Typically, a school has more than one short hall. The shooter can't shoot around corners.

Where do you go next? Back into your room which is where the rules and wisdom say you're supposed to run. Then you wait for the guy to come through the door.

During this time, you can be waiting with the thing. When he comes through the door, maybe he's firing and the fire extinguisher will accomplish nothing. In which case you die. But the alternative is you die without trying to do anything. And if you manage to disorient him, get him to fire wild, perhaps you can get by with just 5 kids killed instead of 20. Or maybe 5 kids wounded instead of 20 killed.

Not a perfect idea, but given the lack of ways teachers have to defend themselves, not a horrible one.