School masacres: they sell a bullet-proof backpack online – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

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.

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.

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.