How Very Sad For Our Society

[lizbud]

What a sad comment on this "modern" world in America.


Fathers Create Bulletproof Backpacks
Parents Take Defensive Action

POSTED: 5:59 pm EDT August 9, 2007
UPDATED: 6:24 pm EDT August 9, 2007


BOSTON -- It's time for parents to make the annual trek to get back to school items, which usually includes jeans, jerseys and a few notebooks.

NewsCenter 5's Pam Cross reported Thursday that a couple of North Shore men want parents to consider something else -- a bulletproof backpack.

"They have them with them on the floor, on their laps, on the bus. They always have a backpack," said Joe Curran, of My Child's Pack.


It started with the Columbine shooting in 1999. Curran and Mike Pelonzi said that they watched and worried for their own children. They had the idea to hide bulletproof material inside a backpack. They call it defensive action.

"If the kid has a backpack next to them, or under the desk, they can pick it up, the straps act as a handle and it becomes a shield," Curran said.

It's much lighter than a 15-pound police vest. After three years of experimenting, the backpacks that were tested by an outside lab ranked threat level two. It stops an assortment of bullets, including 9-millimeter hollow point bullets. The fathers researched school shootings from 1900 to this year.

They will sell for $175, but do the special book bags play upon paranoia when most schools are called safe?

"I want to keep my kid safe. I don't care what you do -- if you want to fight the good fight or fix the world's hurts, I can't help you, but my kids are going to be safe because of these backpacks," Curran said.

[jackie]

That is so incredibly sad.

[jackmilliesmom]

How many parents are now going to be of the same mind and make these guys millionaires because they want their children to be safe!!!!

[RICHARD]

LOL.

If you think that your kid needs a BP backpack you are pretty paranoid.

If you can afford the 175, you probably live in an area where you ain't gonna get shot.

Some stupid arse kids will try to see if the pack is indeed, bulletproof.

Nothing is "bulletproof".

A regular pack with your books inside probably offers just as much protection.


And while your kid huddles behind his fourth grade math hoimework inside the pack. the gunman will walk up and put a slug into the unprotected areas of their bodies.

They are catering to paranoia and giving parents a false sense of well being.

Better that "Bullet Proofedness"?


Home schooling- that way when you get shot, it will be someone you know, not some thug off the street!

[moosmom]

I wore a bullet proof vest when I was an Auxiliary State Trooper. They are NOT fun. Not only do they weigh alot and are cumbersome, but they will not stop a bullet that's aimed at the head.

RICHARD,

You're right, they probably ARE living in an affluent area where they can afford $175.

The fact that they feel the need for one is very sad.