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Producers of bullet-proof backpacks are seeing sales of their children's line of backpacks surge, Jewish News One reports.
With gun-control reform going nowhere in Congress, a growing number of American schools and parents are encouraging children to wear bullet-proof backpacks while outside to help protect them from potential gun attacks. The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre last December, in which 20 children died, has created a climate of fear that is contributing to the wider use of bullet-proof backpacks. Gun control advocates say the trend is a sad one.
I don't think I have the words to adequately express my disgust with people who would pray on the fears of parents to sell a product that clearly has no value, and CANNOT do what it is advertised to do.
There is NO way that in the middle of a school shooting an elementary age child will have the presence of mind to defy the teacher's direction of getting down under a table, walk to their cubby, grab their bulletproof backpack and hold it in front of them to deflect incoming fire from a lunatic.
And even if they could perform those steps it will simply not work as a form of protection.
But do you know what would work? Keeping those weapons out of he hands of people how might use them to do harm to ourselves or our children.
Fewer guns mean fewer bullets. Fewer bullets mean fewer deaths. It is the kind of simple mathematical formula that you would think that most people would learn in elementary school.
Or perhaps they were too busy cowering in a corner, while hiding behind their backpacks, to pay attention to the lesson.
Surrrre, like THAT would have helped Sandy Hook!
ReplyDeleteUnless these packs have the ability to wrap a kid in a bullet proof cocooon at the sound of gunfire - they will not do much against an assault rifle.
ReplyDeleteThis is just a way to scam real Murikans into giving away their money thru fearmongering.
Merikan exceptionalism at its best.
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of. Ya know---'cause most shooters pick off small children while they're wearing their backpacks-----outside exactly in the back and never anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteSigh.
America, home of people who will make a buck off a tragedy but can't get a huge part of our legislators to try to end the tragedies--- until it maybe happens to them personally.
Probably the company who makes these packs has just one motive in mind; profit. Imagine if every parent bought one for their child, it would be a billion-dollar enterprise.
ReplyDeleteIt's an absolutely inexcusable solution. If a gunman knows about these packs and he's crazed with murder on his mind, he might target kids with these backpacks. And if they are standing face-to-face with him, what do these packs do?
What a ridiculous suggestion to turn young children into little soldiers, putting extreme fear and paranoia in them, while going to school? Will these backpacks come with accessories, like weapons and tear gas?
How do you ask your child's lifeless body to forgive you when the magic backpack doesn't protect them from 2nd Amendment freedom-loving Americans and whatnot?
DeleteSpeaking of shooting (off one's mouth) Baldy fired up her ghostwriter to bitch and moan, but not offer any solutions:
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin Denounces Immigration Reform, Says Senate Trying To 'Pelosi' Through An 'Amnesty Bill'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/sarah-palin-immigration-reform_n_3491111.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Sarah's trying to turn Pelosi into a verb? With her command of verbiage? SHM
DeleteGryphen, you forgot to mention that the children also need to attack the gunman in unison, maybe using their backpacks as a shield (carrying a Bible and a copy of the Constitution also too) as they heroically do so, stand their ground. 'Merica!
ReplyDeleteWell that's one way to thin the herd of "riff raff".
ReplyDeleteOnly those parents who can afford bullet-proof clothing/backpacks/etc will get that extra chance at reaching adulthood.
And can you imagine the fun conversations at school? "Ha-ha Bobby, YOUR parents don't love you, or they would have bought you a bullet-proof backpack like mine!" Oy.
Students DO NOT wear their backpacks all day, especially in the elementary grades.
ReplyDeleteWhat good do the bulletproof backbacks do when they're hung in closets or on hooks in the hallway and the gunman bursts into the classroom or playground with guns blazing.
Idiocy with the sole purpose of increasing profits. Disgusting.
It's absolutely ghoulish.
DeleteOur kids already do lock down drills. That's scary enough without the added scare of children having bullet proof backpacks.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this post. You are absolutely right.
ReplyDeleteEven given the small chance they were able to hold the backpack between themselves and the shooter, the first bullet would knock it out of theirs hands and the rest would shred the poor kid. But hey, can't outlaw those absurd assalt riffles with the extra large clips, that would be un-umericun.
ReplyDeleteJust a stupid idea any way you look at it.
This country is fucked up.
I was a freshman when columbine happened. Which lead to all of the bomb threats my upper class high school got, the school found it necessary to round up all of the potential 'problem kids' and have us meet with the school psychologist.
ReplyDeleteI was one of them, because I was bullied. And bullied kids shoot up their schools. They didn't want any of us to stage the next columbine. And rather than address the issue of bullying in general, they just kept asking us if we wanted to hurt the people who hurt us.
Our school freaked out. They went high tech with the security, made our school IDs scannable, and had all of our movements on lock down.
We drilled shooters. We drilled bombs. We evacuated more times than I can count on actual called in threats.
Then school ended for the year, and when we came back, it was like nothing happened. No more lunch time meetings with the school psychologist, no more scanning your ID every time you left it entered a class room, bathroom or lunch room.
And we weren't any safer after they laxed on the security, because I was still being pushed down flights of stairs, and still having my clothes stolen in gym.
First of all, if the backpacks are half as dorky as the ones in the promotional film, good luck getting ANY kid to wear one. Seriously, who want's grandma's kitchen wall paper pattern on their book bag? Kids want cool backpacks, ones with gi joe and camouflage bikini barbie.
ReplyDeleteSecond, these scumbags who profit off of a tragedy with these things are nothing more than parasitic snake oil salesmen. I wonder if they'd use their own kids to test these products?