When they remake Dora the Explorer as a gritty live-action thriller, no doubt someone will be jonesing to add this particular product to the mix in the role of Backpack.
Finally there is a product that will help you take an active step towards safeguarding yourself and the people you care about from shooting incidents.
MJ Safety Solutions has developed, for the first time ever, a full size, lightweight ballistic protection back pack that is affordable and practical.
Now you can provide on the spot protection against guns and knife violence!
Yes, it’s a bullet-proof backpack for your kid to protect him or her from the “plague” of school violence. DOF has an engineering, practical, and statistical analysis.
…divided by the vague subset of those cases where your child could turn around and present his or her backpack to the line of fire or the path of a knife at just the right instant to stop a bullet. I think that works out to about a one in 792 skabillion chance this backpack would ever do anything except be damned uncomfortable on the school bus.
Yeesh.
I’ve heard that ballistic hoodies and such are a fairly popular product line both here and in the UK.
Gah.
If you told me they were a “prestige” item, I’d believe it. If you told me that parents were being scared into buying them for their kids, I’d weep.
Nuff said. I definitely think it’s all fear based products. Just look at real statistical data and you will find the chances of such a thing happening to your kid are so small.
Of course, I’ll be the first to admit to irrational non-odds-based worries about my daughter at times. But I think the best defense for her is teaching her to be smart and careful — those two traits will carry her a lot further than kevlar backpacks and GPS tracking chips.
Durn tootin’. As the guidebook to surviving a nuclear bomb says; “Be somewhere else when it goes off!”
There’s a book by Gavin DeBecker called Protecting The Gift that’s just a ton of street smarts for kids. He has a similar book for adults, The Gift Of Fear. Both are based on the concept that an ounce of realistic threat-assessment and cultivated instinct is worth a ton of media-driven irrational fear as far as personal safety goes. They end up being more reassuring than frightening.
But if we start assessing threats rationally, we won’t be as easy to manipulate! And who knows where that could lead.