Bulletproof Backpack Sales Spike After Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting: Is It a Good Idea?
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2012/12/20 20:00:00
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We never thought we'd see the day when bulletproof backpacks became the norm. But after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut that left 20 children dead, the sale of bulletproof backpacks has skyrocketed.
BulletBlocker, a Massachusetts-based armor company, has seen a 300-to-400 percent increase in sales since the tragedy last week. The company is selling a bulletproof child safety backpack for $199.99 as well as shields that start at $175 -- including bulletproof inserts that slide into backpacks, laptop bags and purses. Do you think buying bulletproof backpacks is a good idea? Or does something else need to change instead?
NYDAILYNEWS.COM reports:
BulletBlocker, a Massachusetts-based armor company, has seen a 300-to-400 percent increase in sales since the tragedy last week. The company is selling a bulletproof child safety backpack for $199.99 as well as shields that start at $175 -- including bulletproof inserts that slide into backpacks, laptop bags and purses. Do you think buying bulletproof backpacks is a good idea? Or does something else need to change instead?
NYDAILYNEWS.COM reports:
Sales of bulletproof backpacks for schoolchildren are through the roof days after a masked gunman's rampage left 20 kids dead at a Connecticut elementary school.
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Top Opinion
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Gingah Bread 2012/12/20 20:16:39No. We need change in action, not bulletproof backpacks!
+12These things happen once every few years, we don't need a heavy and pricey bookbag to carry around.
Edit: also unless its a cop killer gun or these are low grade Kevlar bags the bag should be able to take a few gun shots. Also to reiterate Kevlar is very light and does not get much heavier going up different grades of it.
over any other nation until we clean up our
increasingly demented society...armored backpacks?!
what's next,arming teachers?oh wait,we're already
doing that!
...adriana lima...sweeeet! :)
Quick giving these prisoners a cushy room and equal rights to law abiding citizens. Once these criminals are convicted, They should be forced into hard labor. If they don't work...they don't eat. Conjugal visits?? F no! Free education?? Never, Also we need to re introduce the death penalty and move it quicker through the system. That's how you fix it.. Start holding the criminals accountable for their actions!
Go up to any manufacturing plant, most any employeer and you will have guards, scan cards or fingerprint scanners, for security.
What mentality lets you think our children should not be protected.
I remember sleeping with the doors unlocked. America has changed and not for the better. Since WWII I there has been N0 years where we were more safe than the year before.
Better get ready for bars on windows, more people with home security systems and more people arming themselves.
WHEN A CRIMINAL IS SECONDS AWAY, POLICE IS MINUTES AWAY.
But we need the same arms to protect my old butt when I am threatened.
See, old people are already targets or robbers, muggers. We are killed just for our meds.
I will defend my self so don't take my defense and remember that brass knucks for defense can be used in an attack too.
Pepper spray is usually carried for protection but what if you are sprayed with it, you are vunerable then for a robbery.
I agree, but I call kid killers Evil instead of menally ill. We do agree though.