I’m ready for school, mom
One new product this fall for U.S. schoolchildren is a backpack with a bulletproof lining.
The company sells two sizes, one for books and the other for laptop computers. Both have a light metal plate sewn into the back, guaranteed to stop bullets although weighing no more than a bottle of water.
No child left behind – or without body armor?
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Changing the gun laws would just be too terrible, right?
“In almost 97 percent of these documented incidents, MJ Safety Solutions’ backpack could have provided the ballistic protection that could have saved lives,” the site claims.
Although the wording in that claim is very weird, I seriously doubt this is true. Were the kids shot in the back 97 percent of the time? Or am I missing something?
changing the gun laws will not prevent people who want to get guns from getting them.
#3 – Jim
It will keep it out of the hands of most kids. Why do you think Europe isn’t plagued by school shootings?
#4 – true, and more places than Europe. Bullying is understood to be a significant cause for many school shootings and as bad as bullying often is in the US and Europe, it’s even worse in Japan. I’d expect matching disasters in Japan if civilians had American-style access to firearms.
Nothing like the Wild, Wild West —
With gun guys around the country trying to put the hunting age as low as eight years old, it’s almost predictable that one gun store in Texas has actually created a kids’ section.
http://www.gunguys.com/?p=1415
Heck, I had a rifle and pistol when I was 12, but times were a lot different in those “good old days” in the TX hill country. I remember a kid bringing a rifle to school for “show and tell.” Back then even the teacher was impressed.
Perhaps the politically correct acts of feeling sympathy for the deranged minds of killers should change. Instead of councilling and compassion they should be shown a bit more oppressive procedure. I kind of lean towards a pair of ten foot long shoes laces stretched out in front of a steamroller. Stretched state governments could generate cash from watching fees. The one who catches the head could keep it as a souvenir. Maybe put it on a pole in the front yard. Others contemplating duplicating their acts should be discouraged.
#7 Looks like you are moving to Saudi….
I find it funny that a place with so many people that are both constantly bitching about both the loss of freedoms and that a police state is upon us would also be anti-private ownership of firearms.
Add to that that Iraq has proved that an armed populace can, in fact, stand up to the US military.
Damn I could think of a few schools where I live that could benefit from those.
#4…..yep, your right, while shootings are happening in Europe, they aren’t as prevelant as here…….but knife attacks are far, far more numerous there than here….usually fatal ones.
#11 joshua – … but knife attacks are far, far more numerous there than here….usually fatal ones.
Care to share the statistics you base these two statements on?
#9 You’re absolutely right. I have a hard time understanding how someone can be pro-choice but anti-gun. They’re the same issue: personal freedom.
#12, jag,
Don’t hold your breath. Joshua has a history of tossing out claims that he can not or will not back up. I think it is just his youthful exuberance.
#9, Gig,
Add to that that Iraq has proved that an armed populace can, in fact, stand up to the US military.
Don’t let anyone in the Administration or the Department of Defense know that. They claim it is only a few dissatisfied people from Iraq and supported by al Qaeda.
#14 – Mr. Fusion
Yeah, facts are boring, so why not just make something up. 🙂
#15 – Mr. Fusion – They claim it is only a few dissatisfied people from Iraq and supported by al Qaeda.
Yeah, “few” is quite a relative term in politics. 😀
#11, joshua:
Even if what you are claiming isn’t complete and utter bullshit, I would still wager that you don’t see mass school/workplace “knifings” in Europe.
Imagine if guns weren’t accessible: Would the following headline be reasonable?
“Knife-wielding Maniac Kills 32 at Local College”
#1 Correct – but closing the gate after the horses have bolted does nothing.
#3 changing the gun laws will not prevent people who want to get guns from getting them.
Today I have to admit this is correct, Elvis has already left the building. So lock these guys away who use guns – forever? Well that costs money but if America wants (or ‘needs’) to blow up some country there always is more than enough money for that or to even ship a couple washers.
But what about ‘where there is smoke there is fire’. Guns in schools is the smoke but where is the fire? 😉
I don’t want to rag on this but there are other countries in the world where there just aren’t any guns around, period and they are a better place for it. I could cite a few if you like. 🙂
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If you;re going to use a stormtrooper, at least use the real ones from the first movie.
I wonder if the U.S. doesn’t need to redefine ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ and change the places where to look for them?
I really like guns but I don’t think they should be handed out to murderous idiots. Does that make me a liberal or a conservative?
Although there’s lots of acrimony on DU concerning the terms, do those labels actually mean anything anymore like they used to?