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Which is why they then did calculations on the subject and found that it was not possible. At all. Not even with the most absurd input parameters.
You clearly didn't read my first post, where I linked to the declassified scientific report on the subject. Give it a read - at least the abstract, like I said the first time.
Read my post again. I referenced the paper when I wrote "
and concluded that the reaction wasn't sustainable due to radiated energy loss". Point being, the fact that they did the paper in the first place and that a Nobel laureate took the concern seriously meant that it was more than an inside joke among the scientists initially.
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I'd still rather trust my own life to my own hands and luck than the mental stability of a madman. An example of my thinking can come from back in highschool. We had an intruder drill, where we turned off the lights, closed the doors, and hid in a huddle in the corner of the room. When I realized that the window of the doors were easily broken and opened from the inside, and that around 80% of school shootings are committed by students there, I asked the teacher what the "procedure" was if the student wasn't fooled into thinking the rest of his classmates left while he was loading up in the bathroom, broke the door and entered the room. Her honest response was "he probably doesn't have enough bullets for all of us. At that point its luck." I find a response like that unacceptable. I find taking my chances with whatever blunt instrument (desk, chair, flagpole) or pointy thing (scissors, etc) than resting my life in the accuracy or magazine count of a shooter. Granted, this case is slightly different, as the person had not started shooting yet, and I wasn't there at the time, so I'm just another guy talking smack on the internet.
The school procedures are set up like that for a reason. It makes the armed response by the police much easier and it reduces the risks involved with panic and trampling. Barricaded doors also take time to penetrate and can greatly reduce the number of victims available to the shooter. While your configuration wasn't optimal, it wouldn't take much to make it work. Setting the the door so that it opens inwards, replacing the glass with plexiglass, and equipping it with a heavy duty door stop will secure against anything short of a battering ram.
Fighting back is the best of bad options after an active shooter has penetrated or bypassed the barrier as the first few students may soak up enough enough bullets to allow some of the others to reach him when he has to reload. But much better that he doesn't get in the room in the first place.
