Fathers Create Bulletproof Backpacks

The Indy Channel ^ | 08/10/07

[Abathar]

Good idea, but my kids 8" thick stack of books will probably stop a 9MM as well as this will, the problem is will they think to use it when put into that situation? Most kids will panic, drop the bag and run away unless its a hostage situation and they have time to think and remember what they have and how to use it.

[EBH]

Won’t do much good in schools requiring ‘see-thru’ packs.

[Abathar]

I haven’t heard of that requirement, they must not have metal detectors yet.

[Ladysmith]

...my kids 8" thick stack of books will probably stop a 9MM as well as this will...

Huh, now you've gone and made me curious. I have some old textbooks downstairs I'm going to have to try my own hardware on...

[PeteB570]

Ditto from a parent in another “mesh net or clear plastic backpack” public school.

With three minutes between classes students carry all their books with them during the day.

In this day and age I can never figure out why they don’t have the schools books on CDs. I’d pay $10 a class to have the CD at home so the kids don’t have to cart the books to and from school.

[WLR]

How does the Israel secure their children.. Gramma Checks Ids while Grampa and a few of his friends hang around a short distance away with Uzi,s.

Here the Leaders of the Public Teachers Union NEA pray for massacres.....helps with their Marxist Political Agenda.

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[WLR]

Books, their purchase and the propaganda within them is just another aspect of the Public Education Con.

W

[Abathar]

I have shot books before, they make a great bullet catch, within reason. A couple of thick hardcover books like the kids carry will stop a 9MM no problem, and would probably hurt a whole lot less than bulletproof material would also.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Won’t do much good in schools requiring ‘see-thru’ packs."

If I were designing such a beast, the Kevlar would be in the layer of fabric at the part of the backpack immediately against the wearer's skin--which doesn't need to be "see-through".

[CometBaby]

Your kids carry around an 8” thick stack of books all day long? Your kids must be the only ones who do this. Kids I know visit their lockers several times a day to swap out books. I personally have never met anyone who carries an 8” stack of books on them all day.

[SoftballMominVA]

Many, MANY of the book sellers do offer the books on CD, and often the schools have permission to make copies of the CD's to give out to kids. So why don't they? Lots of kids don't have computers. So the school's just don't make them available.

When your kids get their books, go to the publisher's website and see if there is a companion CD. Then I suggest you contact the school superintendent's office and ask to be put in touch with the book room and see if you can get the CD's for your kids.

[Sloth]

I carried easily that much when I was in school.

[tiger-one]

Bulletproof backpack, no such thing as “bulletproof” bullet resistant yes. I would bet the state of Massachusetts has a law outlawing the public use of bulletresistent vests AKA backpacks.

[tiger-one]

How many books will it take to stop a 7.62 X 39, or a .357?

[davisfh]

Just too damned bad that we've come to this, but one must understand that multiculturism does come with a price.

[johnny7]

More of a wipe-up-the-blood solution than stopping the bleeding. The sheeple will buy into it... they know that the courts/cops won’t protect them.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Proliferation of such body armor would make it cheaper in the long run. In the rare event of another Columbine, the shooters would then be not only well armed, but well protected from assault using confiscated armored bookbags for their own protction.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

8” stack is nothing. A typical high school junior at our school is probably carrying 12” - think US History book (mine back in the day was 3” - same book I saw as a freshman at Univ. of Ill, btw!), advanced chemistry, 3rd year foreign language, a stack of paperbooks for the Lit class, etc.

[PurpleMan]

The apocalypse is upon us

[Abathar]

My oldest does, my other usually has 2 or 3, but our HS is so big she doesn’t have time to get to her locker and back to the other side of the school in time. Maybe this year she will have classes closer.