Company Hawking Bulletproof Blanket to Schools

[gun sane]

If your school buys this, start thinking about alternative means for your kid's education.

 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/a-company-has-designed-a-bulletproof-blanket-to-protect-kids

[hipower]

Viable option or just an attempt to capitalize on the situation?

[Sam1]

The fact that it is so absurd the company that makes them doesn't even really know how to market it, makes it even funnier.

[Dustbuster]

What a stupid idea. Now everybody can have their very own personal red target that their child can place over themselves when something goes down in a school of course nobody ever what ever pay attention to a big red square, never at all


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[xjsnake]

Jeeze that's a stupid idea...

[Murgatroy]

I read an article this morning about this, they aren't pushing it as a bulletproof blanket, they are pushing it for tornado protection. The company is based in an area that was hit by a tornado that killed several children at the school as they didn't have a shelter.

 

They made the decision to make it out of ballistic material.

 

 

Being that I have a child in school, and live in a tornado area, I think this is a better solution than pretending there is nothing we can do and run around screaming.

[Oh Shoot]

I read an article this morning about this, they aren't pushing it as a bulletproof blanket, they are pushing it for tornado protection. The company is based in an area that was hit by a tornado that killed several children at the school as they didn't have a shelter.

 

They made the decision to make it out of ballistic material.

 

 

Being that I have a child in school, and live in a tornado area, I think this is a better solution than pretending there is nothing we can do and run around screaming.

 

I don't believe it would offer any crush protection to speak of, though. Flying glass and whatnot, yeah, I guess could help.

 

- OS

Edited June 10, 2014 by Oh Shoot

[gun sane]

I read an article this morning about this, they aren't pushing it as a bulletproof blanket, they are pushing it for tornado protection. The company is based in an area that was hit by a tornado that killed several children at the school as they didn't have a shelter.

 

They made the decision to make it out of ballistic material.

 

 

Being that I have a child in school, and live in a tornado area, I think this is a better solution than pretending there is nothing we can do and run around screaming.

 

One of the company's officers said that Sandy Hook was a reason they started thinking about this.  If they're gonna float this thing as a shield against tornadoes, fine.  But they shouldn't insult everybody's intelligence by throwing school shootings into the spiel.  That makes it sound like profiteering off a nation's grief.  :2cents:

[btq96r]

Viable option or just an attempt to capitalize on the situation?

 

The latter, I'm sure.

 

One of the company's officers said that Sandy Hook was a reason they started thinking about this.  If they're gonna float this thing as a shield against tornadoes, fine.  But they shouldn't insult everybody's intelligence by throwing school shootings into the spiel.  That makes it sound like profiteering off a nation's grief.  :2cents:

 

Profiteering of grief & fear are classic American business practices. 

 

Whenever "it's for the children" or the keywords terrorism, security, crime or any combo thereof become the theme...hold onto your wallet. Tax dollars are being solicited by some company with a solution to what is probably an exaggerated problem at best.

[bersaguy]

Can anyone say RIP-OFF. If I was in the 1st or 2nd grade or ever higher grades and they gave me one of those things and told me that if a shooter comes into my school they want me to hide behind it. I would throw it down and run screaming out of the school terrified that they think a shooter was coming to my school.  When are these idiots going to quit trying to profit off of fear of children and parents and when are the local school systems going to really put safe guards programs together that make since? If a guy showed up at my school pedaling these things and I was the principal I would escort him out of my school with the recommendation he never return. My Children are all grown and I only have one grandchild in the third grade of the school he attends and they have 3 resource officers in the school every day while children are there. In the upper level schools they also have two or more resource officers in them and at all Sporting events held there are as many as 5 Uniformed officers at all of them. The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun. That has been proven more times than not. I would rather my school system spend that kind of money on resource officers than blankets that will only scare the children......................jmho 

[TrickyNicky]

I can see these being a good piece to the school security puzzle, but by no means a final solution. If I were a teacher I'd want a few, as many as the kids needed to cover up with, and one extra with a hole in the middle so I could wear it like a poncho while I waited for the shit bag shooter to either pass my class or come in. As far as scaring the kids, smart teachers will use the blanket as a game to teach kids to use it. That's what they did for earthquake drills in CA anyway. Gets the kids used to the actions without raising any concerns for them.

I'd bet even money BersaGuy and a few other of you old timers would recognize the earthquake drills they taught us as being almost identical to A-Bomb drills of the Cold War.

[bersaguy]

I can see these being a good piece to the school security puzzle, but by no means a final solution. If I were a teacher I'd want a few, as many as the kids needed to cover up with, and one extra with a hole in the middle so I could wear it like a poncho while I waited for the #### bag shooter to either pass my class or come in. As far as scaring the kids, smart teachers will use the blanket as a game to teach kids to use it. That's what they did for earthquake drills in CA anyway. Gets the kids used to the actions without raising any concerns for them.

I'd bet even money BersaGuy and a few other of you old timers would recognize the earthquake drills they taught us as being almost identical to A-Bomb drills of the Cold War.

Yea we had a bomb shelter in back yard when I was a kid and dad and mom kept it stocked with food and water and would rotate it from time to time but really in all reality how many people would survive a true nuclear war in back yard air raid shelter?. And even if you did survive the blast would you survive long enough under ground for radiation to clear. I think not. Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There was nothing left except ashes and those were crude Nukes. Figure how far they have advanced since then. If the first nuke is ever fired from a country at another Country just sit down, tuck your head between your legs and kiss your butt good bye because that will be when God fulfills the second destruction of the earth which he promised would be by fire. The difference this time is he will let man destroy man on their own with fire as he predicted. And to think the creation of that devastating weapon was actually discovered 5 miles from my home in Lemont, Illinois at the Argonne National Laboratory where they split the first atom ............jmho 

[JayC]

I'm much more worried about sticking my child in a government run school, being brainwashed 7 hours a day, than I am about the need for a bullet proof blanket.

[Troutburger]

I think a bullet proof method of closing and securing the door to a classroom would be a better option.

[tnguy]

Might as well sell crystals that will calm a potential shooters troubled qi by emitting calming positive energy.

 

Uh, hey, I have an investment opportunity if anyone's interested...