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It might turn your stomach, but it makes a perverse kind of sense that there are companies that produce body armor for kids, specifically designed to protect children from events like last Friday's school shootings in Newtown, Conn. Companies like Amendment II, which makes backpacks (in Disney Princess and "Avengers" designs) built with carbon nanotube armor, have seen sales spike since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary. At least a half-dozen companies make body armor backpacks, many of which use past school shootings in their marketing pitches. If a bulletproof backpack isn't enough protection, Amendment II also sells a childrens tactical vest for "when the unthinkable happens."
http://now.msn.com/bulletproof-backpacks-increase-in-sales-after-newtown-shootings
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)I remember cloth books straps, the school turning out to see the new flag with the 50th star,
Me and the Beav could never have seen this in our worst nightmares.
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)or in a locker?
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)rustydog
(9,186 posts)WTF America, what went wrong? Kevlar backpacks for schoolkids
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Venture over to the gungeon where the gun nuts are all about arming teachers and concealed carry permits.
They want more guns.
Everywhere.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)the old phrase is when you only have a hammer you have to see every problem as a nail.
MattBaggins
(7,905 posts)sasha031
(6,700 posts)Personally I find it so disturbing We live in a culture of violence, I would only hope progressives would find changing this, to be a motivating cause.
As far as body armor for little children, thanks to GOP control from 2000 on, the bullets today would pierce right through the armor.
Perhaps the next brainstorm idea from the nuts, sticking little kids in bulletproof humvees, so that they can get to & from the classroom.
Enlarging the size of rooms & doors in schools throughout the country, that way the hummers can drive right into class everyday, stuffed with students.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)and dems have always wanted to blunt it.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)since that's where most kids' backpacks are during shootings.
Robb
(39,665 posts)Talk about playing to our baser instincts. My first thought was to wonder if such a thing would have any chance of protecting my child.
Took a minute for me to get to "society's fucked up."
frylock
(34,825 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)there is something really wrong with our priorities. Parents and elected officials across the country need to meet together until they come up with a plan and funding to keep the most vulnerable of our population safe.
sasha031
(6,700 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)it's cold outside.