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Demand For Bulletproof Backpacks Surges After Texas School Shooting
Zubuy Brothers ^ | 5-29-2022

Posted on 05/29/2022 4:33:16 PM PDT by blam

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Quite a ways from my rural woodframe school house where I stared to school 71 years ago. That school house is still standing.
1 posted on 05/29/2022 4:33:16 PM PDT by blam
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Maybe those police can wear these so they’ll feel courageous enought to engage.


2 posted on 05/29/2022 4:38:20 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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“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.


3 posted on 05/29/2022 4:39:47 PM PDT by Reddy ( B.O. stinks)
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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?

Considering the amount the Biden admin has spend on free home COVID tests, $100-$300 isn't that much of a stretch.

With mass production, the costs could be even lower, except that the Biden admin seem clueless regarding anything financial.


4 posted on 05/29/2022 4:44:24 PM PDT by TomGuy
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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


5 posted on 05/29/2022 4:44:40 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Apologize in advance for language…..

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?

6 posted on 05/29/2022 4:46:25 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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"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????????"

Thank you.

7 posted on 05/29/2022 4:49:32 PM PDT by blam
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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.


8 posted on 05/29/2022 4:51:43 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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Probably?


9 posted on 05/29/2022 4:52:56 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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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.


10 posted on 05/29/2022 4:55:30 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: blam

The kids dont wear them all day. And generally backpacks are kept in the areas of boots and coats.


11 posted on 05/29/2022 4:55:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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True, while in class they could be in lockers.


12 posted on 05/29/2022 4:57:12 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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I guarantee you folks, Sidwell Friends has armed security and the best security system money can buy. If you even as so much as step on a sidewalk crack, you'll be shot dead.

All the money the unconstitutional Dept of Education has spent on BS they could have easily went to school security and upgrades.

13 posted on 05/29/2022 5:00:02 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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How well do these backpacks protect from common rifle cartridges, .223, 5.56 mm, .308, 7.62x__, etc?


14 posted on 05/29/2022 5:01:13 PM PDT by paint_your_wagon
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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.


15 posted on 05/29/2022 5:02:19 PM PDT by Toespi
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When did backpacks become a thing?

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.

16 posted on 05/29/2022 5:12:22 PM PDT by Angelino97
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I want one.


17 posted on 05/29/2022 5:14:42 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Angelino97

So what?


18 posted on 05/29/2022 5:15:13 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: TomGuy

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


19 posted on 05/29/2022 5:29:33 PM PDT by cableguymn
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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.


20 posted on 05/29/2022 5:30:40 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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