If this doesn't make you wonder just what are we coming to, nothing will.

Parents may have a new option when it comes to protecting their children while at school in the wake of the Connecticut school shootings.

A Salt Lake City, Utah, company called Amendment II is offering a “Ballistic Backpack” lined with carbon nanotube armor sewn into the rear of the pack and comes in boys, girls, and teen/young adult models...

The backpacks – which cost $300 – weigh just slightly more than a regular backpack and can be easily swung to the front of the body to be used as a shield, or even “serve as center of mass protection while fleeing the scene of the shooting,” according to the company’s product description.

Demand for the product spiked so quickly following the shootings on Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that the company’s website has crashed at least once.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/12/1...hool-shootings/

This country is going crazy. May God help us all.

If I had to send my child to school with a bulletproof backpack, I'm thinking I wouldn't be sending my child to school at all.

The other side of that argument is this company is cashing in on fear. I really don't see a young child with enough forethought to be using their backpack as a shield in a traumatic situation, nor do I think they would have the time to process that information when someone comes barrelling through the door, gun aimed and ready to shoot. I just don't think they'd have time to grab the backpack so the only good it would be is if the child was running away, backpack already on and shooting shooting at them as they ran away.

Quote: ozarkian wrote in post #2

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If I had to send my child to school with a bulletproof backpack, I'm thinking I wouldn't be sending my child to school at all.

The other side of that argument is this company is cashing in on fear. I really don't see a young child with enough forethought to be using their backpack as a shield in a traumatic situation, nor do I think they would have the time to process that information when someone comes barrelling through the door, gun aimed and ready to shoot. I just don't think they'd have time to grab the backpack so the only good it would be is if the child was running away, backpack already on and shooting shooting at them as they ran away.

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Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #1

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If this doesn't make you wonder just what are we coming to, nothing will.

Parents may have a new option when it comes to protecting their children while at school in the wake of the Connecticut school shootings.

A Salt Lake City, Utah, company called Amendment II is offering a “Ballistic Backpack” lined with carbon nanotube armor sewn into the rear of the pack and comes in boys, girls, and teen/young adult models...

The backpacks – which cost $300 – weigh just slightly more than a regular backpack and can be easily swung to the front of the body to be used as a shield, or even “serve as center of mass protection while fleeing the scene of the shooting,” according to the company’s product description.

Demand for the product spiked so quickly following the shootings on Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that the company’s website has crashed at least once.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/12/1...hool-shootings/

This country is going crazy. May God help us all.

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Quote: nerd wrote in post #3

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True, look at the jump in the cost of magazines, if you want to look at cashing in. I bought a box full last month because I thought they were cheap, today they are selling for four time what I paid.

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