Bulletproof Backpack

• Thebes
  August 26th, 2007 at 2:37 pm

  The thing is, the pircutred revolver would be a lot more powerful than a 9mm. It would almost certainly penetrate, probably with catastrophic effect.

  Perhaps there wouldn’t be any school shootings if the few teachers with ccw permits could carry at the school where they work. Studies have shown that where normal (trained and law abiding) people can carry a concealed firearm, shooting sprees just don’t happen… the perps pick where to have their fun, and overwhelmingly they pick “gun free” zones.

  At least teach the kids to fight back or run. Teaching them to cower beneath a poorly armoured backpack or even a school desk gets them killed, as we saw recently in Virginia when a madman just walked up and down the aisles shooting each person in turn.

• Capt Obvious
  August 26th, 2007 at 4:44 pm

  Along those lines, I’ve always felt that a basic gun safety training course should be a required high school class. Most of what people fear about guns themselves is born of ignorance. Psychos can kill people with a car just as easily as with a gun, but every teen learns about cars.

• L
  August 26th, 2007 at 9:02 pm

  Wouldn’t the shooter just avoid the backpack and go for the unprotected areas? And this doesn’t look like it would help much unless the shooter was behind you.

  As far as teachers carrying guns goes, that thought scares me. I’ve come across some highly frustrated teachers who would probably snap and take out a whole classroom of kids. And teaching kids about guns? That can be dangerous, too. (Ever seen the video where the cop doing the gun safety lecture shoots himself by accident in a classroom full of kids?)

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxegEMWmNOA

  Besides… supposedly a lot of schools have metal detectors these days. Why aren’t they detecting the guns that the wackos are bringing in?

• Sid Morrison
  August 27th, 2007 at 7:55 am

  There have been some good points. Yeah, how is a tiny knapsack really going to slow down anybody on a shooting spree? It’s a really stupid idea, and preys upon a victim mentality.

  Point #2: yes, Thebes, said crazed killers do usually pick a spot where they can cause a lot of mayhem with little resistance. The killer at the Amish school last year, targeted the Amish for just that reason. The Chechen terrorists at the school in Russian did the same thing for the same reason. Bullies / killers / terrorists like victims whom can be counted on to roll over and cower in free.

  Straight talk from Sid.

• Lasse
  August 27th, 2007 at 1:06 pm

  Teachers carrying guns? You just have to love the american solutions to the problems of the world. *lol*

• dave p.
  August 27th, 2007 at 6:55 pm

  lasse: still better then anyone elses solutions.

• Lasse
  August 27th, 2007 at 11:41 pm

  Dave>> What piece are you carrying then?

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