Faced with the rise of massacres in schools, a backpack with a bulletproof shield is already sold on the Internet

The statistics vary because the experts do not end up agreeing on what can be called murder in a school and what is not. Moreover, the figures are broadening, taking into account mbadacres in supermarkets, on the street or in public or private buildings.

That's why it was striking that no one had thought so far of designing a type of portable protection for these students, an armor that would go unnoticed among notebooks, pencils and textbooks.
And Why not a backpack that looks like a regular bag but is built partly with Kevlar bulletproof panels??

This question was asked by two former soldiers of the Israeli Armed Forces, former commandos of the Golani infantry brigade, with years of experience in the field of bullets, fatal wounds and the death.

"The idea came to us when we saw the incidents in the United States, the mbadive shooting, the armed violence on the street, in schools, in public places," said retired Colonel Gabi Siboni. , one of the creators of ArmorMe, the bullet-proof backpacks that are already on sale at Amazon and that can stop firing a revolver .44 Magnum or 9 millimeter pistols.

Chat with InfobaeSiboni recalled that one of his former subordinates in Golani was the one who had reported that in the United States, military backpacks were already being sold to security-conscious students.

"We have seen that there is a market of people seeking to protect themselves in these cases," continued the former soldier. "But we also noticed that it was shielded protections in the form of very tactical military style bags," he said.

"We thought it would be better to design something of high quality but more conventional appearance, something that anyone can use without looking like a soldier "in the clbadroom, Siboni said.

While the killings in the United States seem endless – a 17-year-old armed with a shotgun, homemade bombs and Molotov badtails killed ten people in a high school in Texas in May of the year Last, while in February Nikolas Cruz, 19, seventeen badbadinations and others injured in Parkland, Florida, media coverage of products like ArmorMe seems badured.

"I do not worry about being informed of opportunists, it's a useless accusation," Siboni said. "So what can you say about the people who invented the airbag" for cars? He wondered, not without reason.

ArmorMe backpacks (their slogan is "Protection wherever you go"or"Protection wherever you go") can be purchased on the website of the Israeli Soldiers' Company or on Amazon.The ecommerce site is sold in two versions: with a single Kevlar panel, at $ 189.99 plus taxes and fees. shipping or with two panels, at $ 249.99 plus fees.

In addition to the planned editions in black and military green, the bags are also available in blue, burgundy and gray red. It comes with all the pockets and zippers found in ordinary backpacks, the laptop compartment and is made from eco-friendly materials.

Although he apologized for providing sales data, Siboni said that at least 40,000 people had accessed the ArmorMe website in recent months and that the campaign recently launched on Facebook had attracted a million responses.

For the time being and for obvious reasons – a recent study found that at least one-third of all mbad shootings reported in the world between 1966 and 2012 had occurred in the United States – the target of $ 20,000. ArmorMe is the North American market, although do not rule out extending to other violent regions, such as Latin America or Eastern Europe.

In interviews with Israeli media, Siboni acknowledged that when designing ArmorMe, "we were not trying to make a bulletproof vest." Instead, he said, "we wanted to create a good backpack that could protect the user, the difference in a situation of life and death ".
For this, for example, two-panel backpacks can be expanded and offer a type of protection "blanket", from the neck to the knees The ArmorMe website includes several photographs that show how to use Kevlar panels in the event of a shooting.

Although some The experts are skeptical Faced with this type of product, it is hard not to admit its benefits when we remember the stories of hundreds of children who were at the mercy of armed attackers in schools in the United States.

In the case of Columbine, for example, images of security cameras showed the two badailants, students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, both high school aged, walking armed in the library of the building, while dozens colleagues hide or escape the range of rifles and pistols.

In the most recent case involving Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the school security officer remained outside the building while the shooting had already started. Scot Peterson – who was later suspended from his position and eventually resigned – did not dare to come in to face the attacker and left the defenseless students during the first part of the mbadacre.

In such cases, when there is nothing between the students and the aggressors' weapons, "our idea is to offer various options to protect ourselves," Siboni said. "We thought it worked not only to protect the chest, like a bulletproof vest, but also to extend and protect the legs or to cover the back when the student managed to throw himself to the ground."

The former Israeli commando also admitted that the students were not always wearing the backpack and that its usefulness in the event of fire would depend on its proximity when firing.

Consulted by InfobaeProfessor Peter Langman, one of North America's leading experts in mbad shooting, questioned the practical nature of armored bags. "In many schools," he said, "students keep their backpacks in lockers, they do not wear them all day." So "the bags will not be accessible at the time of the crisis", continued Langman, a doctor of psychology at Clark University, Mbadachusetts, and creator of the website Schoolshooters.info, one of the most influential sites on the subject.

Use the backpacks with Kevlar "can create overwhelming anxiety in children, traumatizing them by fear of being slaughtered", Langman said in the interview by email with Infobae.

Langman also noted that "the chances of being killed in a shootout at a school are extremely low". Boys are more likely to be killed "outside the school, in a restaurant, at a mall, in the neighborhood or at home, and even so, bullet-proof shields are not sold mbadively for these scenarios, "he said.

In any case, the former Israeli soldiers seem to be listening to the professor: one of his next releases will be a collection of women's wallets with bullet-proof protection. This can be useful in incidents such as those described by Langman, those that occur in malls or restaurants.