"Novel idea"?

https:// www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/03/23/this-school-districts-plan-to-stop-shooters-a-bucket-of-rocks-for-students-to-throw-at-them/?utm_term=.52a5b1bba1a7

To paraphrase George Orwell:

"When we have come to the point where political discourse has reached absurd depths, the first duty of intelligent citizens is the restatement of the obvious".

OK. How's this? NEVER BRING A ROCK TO A GUNFIGHT!