HUH?

There is a guy who is running for Oklahoma State School Superintendent with the platform of providing bulletproof books to students in case of a school shooting. This gentleman even went so far as to get a couple of his buddies together and film themselves shooting at textbooks with various weapons. As he says "Our experiment was as scientific as we could make it, just two or three people who had been in the military,". He did note that the rifle shot all the way through the books while the other bullets were stopped halfway through the book. His recommendation? Cover the books with Kevlar.
What?!?
First of all, how big are books? Not big enough to cover your whole damn body and nobody can hold up enough books to cover themselves in a spray of gunfire. Second, I think a much better solution would be to head off the root causes of school shootings which would be bullies, cliques, depression, and the general shitiness of High School these days. What's next? Assigning Kevlar vests to incoming freshman? This sounds like a sort of fanciful "solution" that somebody came up with to get his name in the press and not someone who is actively seeking solutions to a very horrible problem.