It shouldn't be more dangerous to be a 9th grader than a CEO.
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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So, what I'm hearing is, we should kill 2 CEOs for every school child.
Even at 1:1 we’d be out of billionaires in a couple months.
CEOs hate this one simple trick for preventing school shootings!
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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.
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.
Supply Side Jesus would be proud!
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If they need bulletproof armor just to attend school then it is too dangerous to send them there. This is not a solution to anything.
If you got a boring office job and on the first day you were issued a bulletproof vest because they keep having "incidents", would you keep working there?
Well, honestly I was happy with my bullet proof vest when I was in the military for 15 years. I think pigs would think the same. But I agree with you, I just think there are some exceptions lol
To be completely honest, I wasn't issued a vest. I was in the navy and had to share a vest with 3 others. I used it when I was photographing outside during anti Piracy actions. Just the idea the risk of dying from a bullet is higher at school than it is in the military is crazy. The US truly is a dystopian hell hole (but Musk and Trump are shouting "No! Not enough! We can make it even worse!", with most Americans shouting in reply "Yeah! 'Murica! Thur turker jubs!").
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Can these kids donate them to protect our CEOs? Our CEOs are our most valuable asset
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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
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“There’s no way to prevent this”, say conservatives in the only country where this regularly happens.
This whole article sounds like it could have been by the onion a few years ago. What a sad reality we live in.
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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.
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Shithole country. You cannot change my mind.
Guys, is the USA alright?
No, no defenetly isn't.
But on the other hand: Is the world really alright atm?
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.
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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
Instead of giving school kids free lunch. Schools are buying them backpack armor.
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.
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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?
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