Don't judge a book by its cover...it might be body armor...

As has been widely reported (e.g. here, and here), a Republican candidate for state superintendent has been suggesting that schoolchildren can protect themselves from random gunmen with "thick textbooks." He has, most recently, suggested that publishers bind their books in Kevlar. In case this does not merit mockery on its very face, I offer the following video, showing said candidate and several "supporters" testing the theory by shooting textbooks with rifles and pistols. There is really not much else that can...or need...be said.