From Rick Santorum saying teenagers should learn CPR to fix "their problem" with mass shootings to a Pennsylvania district putting a bucket of throwable rocks in every classroom, there's no shortage of bad ideas aiming to solve our school-shooting problem without talking about guns. And some states are tripping over themselves to come up with even worse solutions that still aren't aimed at preventing future shootings.

On Tuesday, the Kansas state legislature had its first hearing on a proposal to hold schools legally responsible for school shootings if they didn't arm their teachers. It's simultaneously more extreme and more cowardly than Florida's move to arm teachers after the Parkland shooting. If the proposal becomes law, as the AP reports, it could essentially punish all Kansas schools that don't begin arming their teachers under the penalty of damages from students' families in the event of a shooting:

“It would certainly open the door for that conversation,” said Democratic Rep. Brett Parker, an Overland Park school teacher. “The further we go down this rabbit hole, the more chance there is for even more obnoxious legislation moving forward.”

Even if that provision is stripped, as some advocates suggested during the hearing, the bill would prohibit insurers from denying coverage to a school because it lets its teachers or staff members carry weapons.

At least nine other states have provisions in place giving teachers the option of carrying guns in schools, but the Kansas plan seems to go further than most other laws in place or under consideration.

Kansas has long been considered an example of what happens when Republicans have complete, unchallenged control of a state government, and the results have been a total train wreck. While the legislature was considering this proposal to make schools culpable for shootings, the state senate shot down an extra $600 million in education funding despite a Supreme Court ruling that the state is unconstitutionally underfunding its schools.

The other irony is that while Republicans are so quick to make schools responsible for shootings, there's already a federal law that prevents victims of gun violence and their families from suing gun manufacturers. But the GOP is unwilling to consider any solution that could curtail sales and profit for the gun industry, so unarmed kindergarten teachers are a much safer boogeyman to target.