Posted on 05/29/2022 4:33:16 PM PDT by blam
Demand for bulletproof backpacks soars (again) after the elementary school mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Over the years, mass shooting incidents at schools have increased sales for companies that manufacture bulletproof gear.
Nationwide, the search trend for “bulletproof backpack” is rising after last week’s horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead. Parents are concerned about their children’s safety.
A surge in search trends for bulletproof backpacks has occurred after significant shootings in the last ten years. This weekend’s search trend is at a three-year high and back to 2019 levels when there were several mass shootings that summer. Another spike in early 2018 occurred after a 19yo kid walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people and injuring 17 others. A smaller jump was seen in late 2012 when a gunman killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
After the events in Uvalde last week, bulletproof backpack demand is surging, Bussiness Insider reports, citing Guard Dog Security, a Florida-based company that manufactures and distributes bulletproof gear. Guard Dog President Yasir Sheikh said they’re “seeing an increase” in customers interested in bulletproof backpacks.
Sheikh said there’s “an increase from our national retailers who carry our bags.” He noted retailers like Dick’s Sporting Goods, Home Depot, and Lowe’s already carried the bags that act as a shield in the event of a shooting. The bags are equipped with a level 3 plate that is designed to protect against 9mm and .44 magnum rounds.
Prices of the backpacks range from $100 to $300.
A diagram on Guard Dog Security’s website shows how the bags are used in the event of a shooting.
For five years, we have pointed out the increasing popularity of these bags:
A spike in bulletproof backpack sales has been typical after tragic events like a school shooting. Next thing you will know, the minivan is swapped out with an Audi Q5 Security (Audi’s first armored vehicle on a production line).
Meanwhile, lawmakers around the country have called for a ban on body armor since the Buffalo supermarket mass shooting earlier this month and the Uvalde shooting, where both gunmen wore plates.
Maybe those police can wear these so they’ll feel courageous enought to engage.
“Prices of the backpacks range from $100 to $300.”
Shouldn’t the government give out these backpacks for “free” to all the disadvantaged kids? Why should rich kids be protected but not poor kids?
/s if you couldn’t tell.
Shouldn’t the government give out these backpacks for “free” to all the disadvantaged kids? Why should rich kids be protected but not poor kids?
With the amount of stuff some kids carry in their pack would they be able to hold them up in these positions , is there a quick dump
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What the hell is wrong with parents?!?!?!?!?!?!?
What decent parent in their right minds would send their kids into an environment that they know is so potentially dangerous that they would need bullet proof backpacks to cower behind in the event of an active shooter????????
This advertising is staggering. They actually are showing kids how to shield themselves behind a backpack for “safety”???
And yet grown LEOs with body armor won’t go into an active shooter situation because they might get shot?????????
When is this insanity going to end? And when are parents going to love their kids more than they love their own lifestyles and themselves?
Thank you.
The truth is a grade school children is probably 10,000 times more likely to die in a soccer mom van accident than in a school shooting.
Probably?
I was thinking through the numbers and the odds are probably 500,000 to 1.
Number of children in US grades schools divided by number killed in school shootings.
The kids dont wear them all day. And generally backpacks are kept in the areas of boots and coats.
True, while in class they could be in lockers.
All the money the unconstitutional Dept of Education has spent on BS they could have easily went to school security and upgrades.
How well do these backpacks protect from common rifle cartridges, .223, 5.56 mm, .308, 7.62x__, etc?
They should.but I suspect the backpacks would go to the chilren, coming across the border when ICE fires on them.(Sarc). Incidentally the border backpacks will be filled with cell phones, American dollars, Medicaid cards, Embassy Suite vouchers and eat where you want coupons.
When I was young, we didn't wear backpacks to school. We had book bags. And us boys would have "book bag fights," slamming our bags at each other.
Now, even adults wear backpacks, like little children.
I want one.
So what?
Never got my free masks either.
I had some woodwork to do I was kind of hoping to wear one for something that might actually be useful at
If kids carry these, what comes next is 4 laps around the track in the AM and the PM before and after school. That will get rid of the fatty kids, or help anyway.
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