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Bulletproof backpacks: Stop 9MM & .45, but not .223/other rifle rounds.

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 6:00 pm
by surprise_i'm_armed
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consum ... s-n1042801

Also, in case of an active shooter, does the child have the foresight to put it on quickly? Should he/she shield their head, or COM?

SIA

Re: Bulletproof backpacks: Stop 9MM & .45, but not .223/other rifle rounds.

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 8:44 pm
by flechero
Go back and see the video- they show 15+rounds of 5.56 @ 10feet into the same insert with no pass throughs.

https://www.shotstop.net/shop-ballistic ... tection-ra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUxGHBv_eTE
Grabbed this snippet from the recent thread on the same topic...

Don't know if most kids would think about it but I know they can't put it on if they don't have it

Re: Bulletproof backpacks: Stop 9MM & .45, but not .223/other rifle rounds.

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 10:00 pm
by Oldgringo
Bulletproof backpacks? What about bulletproof frontpacks and headpacks? When I, and later my sons, went to school, we carried our books in our arms. Oh, I forgot, we didn't go around shooting each other back then.

The solution to these senseless tragedies is not more protective gear. What is it,.....anybody?

Re: Bulletproof backpacks: Stop 9MM & .45, but not .223/other rifle rounds.

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:34 am
by Boxerrider
Oldgringo wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2019 10:00 pm Bulletproof backpacks? What about bulletproof frontpacks and headpacks? When I, and later my sons, went to school, we carried our books in our arms. Oh, I forgot, we didn't go around shooting each other back then.

The solution to these senseless tragedies is not more protective gear. What is it,.....anybody?
We had guns in our vehicles on campus when I was in school, and never any shootings. We also didn't have high-stakes state testing, or school administrators who were more concerned with checking boxes on state reports than how their students were treating each other. While school/teacher accountability is a worthy goal, the result of the efforts to achieve it has shifted the responsibility for learning from the learner to the teacher; from the citizen to the state if you'll allow me that analogy.

Jeff