school shootings spur innovation (1 Viewer)

[fatness]

Money-making opportunity here.

The company says it is encouraging administrators to make the Bodyguard Blanket an integral part of school and university lockdown protocol.

There were 13 school shootings in the U.S. recorded in the first six weeks of 2014.
A study in January found that 28 people have been killed in 44 school shootings since the Newtown tragedy.

“This thing gives kids an option, an alternative that will give them an opportunity to survive,” Schone said.

$1000 per blanket is the price quoted in the article.

 

[Arizona Ron]

Great, now a crazed attacker will have access to body armor too.

 

[VA703]

homeschool +1

 

[Ilov80s]

$1000 per blanket, 900 kids in my school. We can't afford to fix our old computers or go on field trips and this company expects us to drop $900,000 on some blankets that likely won't get used fast enough to make a difference anyway.

 

[omahawildcat25]

Providing each teacher a gun and training would be millions cheaper and 100 times more effective.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Linus had the right idea.

 

[El Floppo]

Linus had the right idea.

Beethoven?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Linus had the right idea.

Beethoven?

You're thinking of Schroeder, who did have a piano to hide behind.

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

These will work great as long as the shooter is standing on top and shoot straight down.

 

[spreagle]

When I play hide and seek with the kids I always hide under my blaze orange hunting jacket in the middle of the room, works every time.

 

[Insein]

Providing each teacher a gun and training would be millions cheaper and 100 times more effective.

Ive seen the types of people that teach. I dont think this would solve the problem.

 

[KCitons]

homeschool +1

Homeschooling can't protect them when they go to college (Va Tech shooting) or when they go to the mall (Von Maur shooting) or when they go to the movies (Century Theatre, Aurora CO shooting) or when they attend a political rally (Rep Gifford, Tucson AR shooting)

You can't live in fear.

 

[fatness]

Another way to make money off school shootings: bulletproof classrooms.

In a telling sign of the times, a company that manufactures lightweight armored passenger vehicles for heads of state, celebrities, and even the Pope is now turning to what it thinks may be a large new market: bulletproof barriers for school classrooms.

Developed in International Armoring Corporation’s Utah factory, the barriers, called Safeboards, are made to look like whiteboards or bulletin boards so they are unobtrusive in the classroom.

Schools are already interested. The company began developing the product last year (before the Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut) after a few school officials near IAC's headquarters heard about its armored vehicle business and asked if there were any affordable products that could improve safety in the event of a school shooting. Bulletproof doors already exist, but they are more expensive and are very heavy, which can be problematic if a door is used by kids dozens of times a day, Burton says. The sliding Safeboard, made with the firm’s standard lightweight material, starts at $1,850.

“Just this week [the country] had a shooting at an airport, a shooting at a school, a shooting at a mall. We are very active in trying to increase the safety level of our students and employees due to the frequent nature of violent attacks,” he tells Co.Exist.

 

[eoMMan]

So dumb.

Why not just bullet proof the glass window/door for a room and put all the kids there?

 

[PatsWillWin]

Metal detectors? Ones that only detect metal...in the shape of...guns?

 

[NutterButter]

Kids just just wear bullet proof vests at all times.

 

[Ilov80s]

Kids just just wear bullet proof vests at all times.

Better yet, eliminate schools and go entirely to online school.