Sales of kids' body armor backpacks rise since Newtown shootings

[sasha031]

It might turn your stomach, but it makes a perverse kind of sense that there are companies that produce body armor for kids, specifically designed to protect children from events like last Friday's school shootings in Newtown, Conn. Companies like Amendment II, which makes backpacks (in Disney Princess and "Avengers" designs) built with carbon nanotube armor, have seen sales spike since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary. At least a half-dozen companies make body armor backpacks, many of which use past school shootings in their marketing pitches. If a bulletproof backpack isn't enough protection, Amendment II also sells a children’s tactical vest for "when the unthinkable happens."
http://now.msn.com/bulletproof-backpacks-increase-in-sales-after-newtown-shootings

[HereSince1628]

1. That makes me feel old and sad.

I remember cloth books straps, the school turning out to see the new flag with the 50th star,

Me and the Beav could never have seen this in our worst nightmares.

[FLyellowdog]

3. What good would these be when they're hanging on the wall

or in a locker?

[HereSince1628]

5. True.

[frylock]

15. or when attacked from the front?

[rustydog]

2. Sick, sick, sick.., school children's kevlar backpacks

WTF America, what went wrong? Kevlar backpacks for schoolkids

[Cali_Democrat]

4. Want to know what went wrong?

Venture over to the gungeon where the gun nuts are all about arming teachers and concealed carry permits.

They want more guns.

Everywhere.

[HereSince1628]

6. For conservatives the solution is cut taxes, for gun enthusiast its more guns

the old phrase is when you only have a hammer you have to see every problem as a nail.

[MattBaggins]

7. They are nuts

[sasha031]

8. why does DU even allow the gundeon

Personally I find it so disturbing We live in a culture of violence, I would only hope progressives would find changing this, to be a motivating cause.

As far as body armor for little children, thanks to GOP control from 2000 on, the bullets today would pierce right through the armor.

Perhaps the next brainstorm idea from the nuts, sticking little kids in bulletproof humvees, so that they can get to & from the classroom.
Enlarging the size of rooms & doors in schools throughout the country, that way the hummers can drive right into class everyday, stuffed with students.

[HereSince1628]

9. Because gun ownership is a great big political wedge issue

and dems have always wanted to blunt it.

[gollygee]

10. Well their lockers will be safer then

since that's where most kids' backpacks are during shootings.

[Robb]

11. We parents are naturally fearful and protective.

Talk about playing to our baser instincts. My first thought was to wonder if such a thing would have any chance of protecting my child.

Took a minute for me to get to "society's fucked up."

[frylock]

16. these people are ghouls, preying on the fears of parents like this

[Cleita]

12. When kids have to wear body arm anywhere but in a war zone, say Syria for instance,

there is something really wrong with our priorities. Parents and elected officials across the country need to meet together until they come up with a plan and funding to keep the most vulnerable of our population safe.

[sasha031]

13. I couldn't agree with you more Cleita

[frylock]

14. put on a kevlar vest and a sweater, johnny..

it's cold outside.