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Kids with bulletproof backpacks provide bad but real optics for Chicago
Chicago Tribune ^ | 9/17/2020 | John Kass

Posted on 09/18/2020 6:08:14 PM PDT by simpson96

With Chicago violence out of control this year, with more than 500 people killed and thousands more shot, including dozens of little children, I watched a depressing demonstration outside Chicago police headquarters on Thursday:

Little kids modeling bulletproof backpacks.

This is where Chicago is now.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: banglist; chicago; children; education

1 posted on 09/18/2020 6:08:14 PM PDT by simpson96
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How about bullet proof jockstraps?


2 posted on 09/18/2020 6:13:06 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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Wouldn’t it be better to wear one on the back and another on the front?


3 posted on 09/18/2020 6:28:40 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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4 posted on 09/18/2020 6:29:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Better to keep running while wearing the backpack? Get away from the shooter?


5 posted on 09/18/2020 7:04:10 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: simpson96

90% of “reported school shootings” ARE NOT real. The databases are full of “we heard a bang and called cops” or “he carried a gun and we called” and “gangbangers two blocks over were shooting, reported as at the school”.

The School Shootings That Weren’t
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent


6 posted on 09/18/2020 9:22:37 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: MinorityRepublican

The School Shootings That Weren’t
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent


7 posted on 09/18/2020 9:22:48 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: simpson96

Diversity is our strength/s


8 posted on 09/19/2020 5:21:35 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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