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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.
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.
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?