Oklahoma company is now offering bulletproof blankets to protect schoolchildren from future massacres. Apparently keeping guns out of the hands of crazy people is not logical enough.

Courtesy of RT:  

Nervous about the rash of school shootings that have taken place over the past decade, an Oklahoma company has launched a new product that, with a lack of effective gun control laws, promises to protect schoolchildren will bulletproof blankets. 

The Bodyguard Blanket, designed and manufactured by ProTecht, is advertised as a 5/16-inch thick bulletproof rectangle that students can wear over their back in the event of a tragedy at school. The product comes adorned with a backpack straps and is reportedly able to protect against nails and shards of metal as well as bullets. 

ProTecht, which posted a video of a test blanket being shot with test gunfire, is made with the same material that makes up the body armor military and police officials rely on.

The company is trying to muddy the waters by suggesting that this will help in the case of earthquakes, hurricanes, or tornadoes as well, but clearly that is not how they are going to market this.

No these assholes thought to themselves, "School shootings? What a great opportunity to make some money off of fear."

This is just like when we were children and believed that keeping our heads under the covers and our hands and feet tucked in would protect us from the monster that we just KNEW was hiding under our beds.

Only in that case there was no monster so it did not matter that our logic was flawed. 

But in this case there IS potentially a monster, and those mats will do NOTHING to keep those children safe. NOTHING!

I just took a moment to step outside and remind myself that I live in America. Because every day it is getting harder and harder to remind myself of that.

We are the country where downtrodden people from all over the world flock to escape the overbearing threat of violence, and to send their children to school confident that they will return safely.

THIS is the country where it is supposed to be safe to walk the streets.

Yes we have crime. Yes we have poverty. But goddamn it, we are supposed to be working to make all of that better, NOT allowing violence to creep into places that were once considered sacrosanct.

There are Right Wing terrorists hunting our police officers,  self styled sovereign citizens getting way with making threats against government employees doing their jobs, and mad men killing our babies in their classrooms.

And what ALL of these have in common is that they are made possible by people demanding that NOTHING must interfere with the 2nd Amendment as THEY interpret it.

Even if that means that children must cower under completely ineffectual mats, purchased from an opportunistic company, that you just KNOW is turning around and donating some of that money back to the NRA.

Because without guns there is no fear, and without fear they would be out of business.