Why stop there?
Tanks for every student!
A school shooter will think twice upon seeing a 120 mm smoothbore Rheinmetall tank barrel ominously turn in their direction.
Edit: this will also teach students valuable lessons in crew-served weaponry and working together as a team
Girls und panzer would like to join the conversation
Sadly, all the public school could afford was 10 interwar Italian tankettes that fall apart in a light breeze.
Our public infrastructure probably supports military vehicles better than public transportation prospects.
High speed rail to connect major cities and suburbs? Impossible! High occupancy armored personal carrier lanes? Give us 6-60 months.
Not very American.
Shouldnt only the kids with “winner” parents who can afford bulletproof backpack plates get one, so the kids of “loser” poor parents have a reduced chance of surviving?
How will these kids learn it’s wrong to be and their life means less if they’re poor if literally everyone in their grade has a roughly equal chance of survival in the event of our national pastime that makes us who we are happening at their school? How will the less poor kids know their life means more than their poorie classmates?
And really, shouldn’t it only be legal for private academy kids to get these kinds of protective measures? Why expend resources protecting future capital livestock to this degree? Seems like a very inefficient investment.
This feels like a slippery slope to Marxist Leninist commie socialism.
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So un-American, the second amendment isn’t for bullet proof vests. The best defense is offense. These kids should all have gotten guns to protect themselves, with the rich kids bullet proof vests in addition. Because everyone has the right to gunslinging, rich people have the right to survival.
Supply Side Jesus would be proud!
Judging by their shirts saying St. Someone, I am inclined to believe these ARE private school kids. So this is thankfully legal, no need to worry good citizen.
You’ll be a Republican senator in no time.
I was thinking just shoot the brownies. But letting these kids suffer in the system is far more
merricanchristiangop to do.You do make a good point. This should be illegal.
The Rich kids get plate carriers in the front while the poor kids only get to live if they get shot center mass while running away.
They should be given heart shield bibles so they don’t get shot in the heart AND so they can learn the good word of the founding father Jesus
Obligatory Onion link
Guys, is the USA alright?
No, no defenetly isn’t.
But on the other hand: Is the world really alright atm?
A friend always says “X isn’t real, X can’t hurt me, I’m on a flower field :)” But when X is “the World”, the flower field becomes kinda hard to imagin without it …
Current events remind me of how if felt after reading “All Summer in a Day.”
At graduation: “Look to your left. Now look to your right. Remember those faces, as some of them may try to kill you in the future, and some might not make it through the next few years.”
Just bonkers.
And I thought the version of that talk that my 9th grade class got a few decades ago (“1 in 3 of you aren’t going to graduate high school”) was grim.
It’s somewhat uncommon for a graduating class to all survive education my experience as an American. And that’s despite not knowing any school shootings. It’s usually suicide or reckless driving.
Great gift for your closest CEO.
So future CEO shooters should hit legs then heads, avoid the armoured areas
Can these kids donate them to protect our CEOs? Our CEOs are our most valuable asset
Thoughtful high-schooler rises 120k for high grade bulletproofing of sport cars. CEO sends his regards via a personal email.
I am hoping this becomes a wholesome meme mid June at the latest.
Proposed pizza party is delayed indefinitely due to possibility of rain.
Shithole country. You cannot change my mind.
Has bullying stopped there or is it still a thing?
Pretty fucked up, but not a bad idea for the situation they are in.
Statistically stupid. It will cause more psychological harm than it is worth the small probability that they are both involved in a school shooting and lucky enough the be saved by a foot square piece of metal.
They wont be any more traumatized by that, they already are traumatized by the weekly school shootings in the news.
Or the periodic drills that they run where they don’t tell the kids if there’s actually a shooter, and people go through the halls shaking the doors.
If duck and cover fucked the Boomers up for life I can’t imagine what Gen Z is going to be like when they’re old.
Also completely garbage logic with the “wait in your classroom” strategy. That would only be good if the cops were already on site before the shooting starts, but if it drags out over >10mins then more people will die if they just sit around like ducks waiting to get shot.
I’m kinda with you but I’m not sure it’s that simple. I don’t have kids so correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it more like:
Lock the door, barricade the door, then get ready to mob the bastard if they make it in?
That’s the way it is in the several company videos I’ve had to watch. In a cynical manner, it’s all about denying as many targets to the shooter as possible. If everyone is in the hall running, that’s a lot of easily accessible targets, and it’s harder to miss. If they all hide in locations, it makes it take longer per victim, as the shooter has to seek and find targets.
I don’t know. I think we get numb to seeing it on a screen. I couldn’t imagine being one of those kids holding a constant reminder. Everytime they put on their backpack and it’s heavier than it should be. I know books aren’t used in the same way they were decades ago when I was in school… But my backpack was always stuffed.
But let’s ignore the root issue at hand. Let’s just give body armor to children. They’ll figure it out hopefully if/when their time comes
And, as pointed out earlier, this isn’t even good ceramic armor, it’s a one square foot steel plate that will be penetrated by a rifle.
It’s a cheap publicity move by an unscrupulous company trying to cash in on this never ending tragedy. Is one square foot of steel really going to save anyone, or is it just a way to make people more fearful so they buy this product?
I’m reminded of the months and years after 9/11, when some assholes were trying to peddle “Executive Parachutes” to people in high rise office buildings, with the theory you could just jump out a window and float to safety in the event of another terrorist attack.
Growing up, we just like, inherited each other’s old stuff, like clothes, stereos, and even cars.
Gonna be a weird time when kids these days grow up and tell stories about handing down or receiving handed-down body armor.
But his plate armour already has dents in it! Why can’t I get new armour! Everyone is going to make fun of me!
Look at the bright side, Timmy. At least it’s already shown its effectiveness.
Imagine being telling kids to wear body armour rather than dealing with the gun problem.
