08-20-2007, 11:26 AM
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CP Pontiff
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: A pasture out by Millarville
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Bullet-proof backpacks for kids selling like hotcakes
I love America man . . . free enterprise fills any niche.
Selling bulletproof backpacks for kids so they have something between them and the shooter in the event of another Columbine, etc.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drm...677754,00.html
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08-20-2007, 11:29 AM
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Sleazy Banker
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Cold Lake Alberta Canada
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the whole world is going crazy!
its sad to see that is has come to this.
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08-20-2007, 11:33 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Calgary
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Crazy. But seriously not a bad idea at all. If 5 or 10 of the students had one of these in Virginia, there might've been more action to take out the shooter.
Won't do anything in Columbine though, didn't those guys have high powered rifles and pipe bombs?
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08-20-2007, 11:41 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Calgary
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As a University student, I wouldn't want one of these. But if I had kids and lived in the States, I might think this is a decent idea. You never know.
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08-20-2007, 11:46 AM
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Fear mongering at it's finest.
Typical USA bs! Lets get the masses filled with fear everywhere they go.
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08-20-2007, 11:57 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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The marketing of fear.
It can make you a profit, get you elected, or both!
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08-20-2007, 12:06 PM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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I was actually shocked to not see "office tower parachutes" for sale after 9/11.
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08-20-2007, 12:22 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ken0042
I was actually shocked to not see "office tower parachutes" for sale after 9/11.
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Um, I think I remember seeing something of the sort a few years back. Calgary-based 'Gunnar' office furnature makes office funature designed to withstand many elements of a terrorist attack. I saw it on the Discovery Channel once.
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08-20-2007, 12:31 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Auckland, NZ
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Why not just buy a bullet-proof vest and wear that? It protects not only your back, but your front as well...
Last edited by Muta; 08-20-2007 at 12:47 PM.
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08-20-2007, 12:42 PM
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Franchise Player
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while i think that youtube campaign is just ridiculous, you can't help but think this isn't such a stupid idea. Why wouldn't you try and protect your kid as best you can?
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08-20-2007, 12:43 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
For some, Curran said, the product has become a pawn in the emotional gun-control debate spawned by deadly school rampages.
"You have the NRA, Second Amendment guys saying: 'You don't need a backpack, just arm the kids,'" he said, referring to Internet blogs. "The other side says we should ban all guns across the country and that will solve the problem."
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Good lord.
People can’t really be this stupid, this had to be the most backwards logic I have ever herd…
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08-20-2007, 01:05 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by corporatejay
while i think that youtube campaign is just ridiculous, you can't help but think this isn't such a stupid idea. Why wouldn't you try and protect your kid as best you can?
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Because it's almost completely unnecessary. The odds of getting shot in school are really, really, really low. There is line when it comes to protecting your kids. If you really wanted to do everything you could to protect them, you would lock them in a Nerf covered room to keep them away from drugs, violence on tv, underage drinking and premarital sex. Parents don't need to buy into this fear mongering.
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08-20-2007, 01:07 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by J pold
Good lord.
People can’t really be this stupid, this had to be the most backwards logic I have ever herd…
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I wouldn't be so surprised. This has come up before, on this forum...
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08-20-2007, 01:15 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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I don't see how people can think this is a stupid idea. Kids need to carry their books and lunch to school. They need a back pack. If that back pack can also provide protection, I think it's probably a good thing. Of course the chances of being involved in a school shooting are slim, but it does happen. Some of these responses are what I would expect if somebody was selling a vampire fighting kit to students. Providing a product that can help save kids' lives, no matter how unlikely the event that they are designed to be used in, is not a stupid idea.
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08-20-2007, 01:26 PM
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Franchise Player
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I think it depends on how much it weighs if it is light weight and doesn’t get in the way of anything than fine than yeah why not I guess, but if its huge and kids are destroying there backs than its pretty unnecessary
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08-20-2007, 01:28 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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they said in the article that it only weighs about 20 oz. They said it was about the same as 2 notebooks or a bottle of water.
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08-20-2007, 01:31 PM
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Franchise Player
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What about instilling needless fear into the kids? How do you explain to them that they are not in danger of getting shot when you send them to school with a back covered in Kevlar? As if the first day wasn't nerve racking enough on them.
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08-20-2007, 01:32 PM
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Franchise Player
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08-20-2007, 01:36 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: In my office, at the Ministry of Awesome!
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I have two issues with a backpack like this.
1) It's kind of overkill to buy a bullet proof backpack on the slim chance that a school shooting would happen in your child's school, combine that with the limited effectiveness of a product like this, and I'd say that the increase in safety to your child is negligable at best.
2) I could see some kid with this thin thinking he is invulnerable, and should a situation occur, getting injured because he thought he was more protected than he actually was.
All in all, a goofy product that is incredibly unlikey to save even a single life.
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