A Rare Commercial Plug

It’s a scary world when we have to consider bullet-proof backpacks and class survival kits. Makes me glad it’s hard to own a gun in Australia.

I have seen the bullet blocker backpack before. There is an excellent review of it up somewhere from United States Concealed Carry Association. The guy who did the review actually had a bunch of them and shot at them etc etc and they worked great. The same company also sells the plates for individual use as well and to add to the backpacks. All in all this seems to be a great product….glad you found it and are spreading it on your blog.

Not just for kids! They are great for paramedics who work in Urban settings too! I have rode my bike home from work many summer nights through the sounds of near-by automatic gunfire. PS – LOVE THE NEW BANNER AT THE TOP OF THE MAIN PAGE!!!

Katie – Gun laws only make it difficult for honest people to own guns…I like the new banner AD.*reverting back to lurk mode*

Is that the same company that spammed a bunch of gun forums, saying that you don’t need to carry a gun or lobby for CCW in schools, just get one of their backpacks?

Katie, I’ll bet it’s only hard for the law abiding to own a gun in Australia. The criminals don’t care.Anonymous, I wouldn’t know if they’ve spammed any gun boards or not.The owner presented himself as a RKBA advocate, and I have no reason to believe otherwise.In any case, short of a college campus, CCW for the students is pretty much impossible, is it not?Hence, the utility of a bullet resistant backpack.

AD, the company lists a “insert your own barrier” kit for armoring your own backpack. I’m sure they make a small one for Katy.

The Fox Boston link didn’t work.Wow… it really scares me that these things are needed in schools nowadays… I really didn’t think the world was this dangerous a place, although I know there are places that it is dangerous…*sigh*

My college campus is crazy whith people getting tazed every few days and stealing golf carts I refer to it as the hood I think I’ll go get one of these

Build some muscles on that kid and just put a piece of steel plate in there!I figure 1/4″ mild steel should stop <>pistol<> rounds pretty well (And a quick search at the Box o’ Truth forums suggests that to be correct – sadly the main BoT hasn’t done a steel plate test).(I kid. Mostly.)Dawna: They’re not really “needed” in schools in the general sense. School shootings are still very uncommon; the <>publicity<> about them overwhelms their rareness.I’d consider such a backpack a waste of money, myself – generally it’d be better to spend some <>time<> training your kid to run or fight back (as appropriate to circumstances) rather than buy an armored backpack on the off chance that someone’s going to shoot at them from behind at the back (rather than from the front, or in the leg, or in the head).And even better, of course, would be letting people (at <>very least<> staff) with CCWs be armed.

Most college campuses are overrun by semi-retarded, liberal, do-gooder ‘fraidy-cats, and therefore “gun-free” (or “free-range victim”) zones. Thanks, you fuckers.I started carrying my course notes, etc. in one of these after VA Tech.

Some other places they’ve spammed: http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/forum64/17129.htmlhttp://californiaccw.org/posts/list/4968.pageHere’s what I wrote when he < HREF="http://olegvolk.livejournal.com/504145.html" REL="nofollow">spammed Oleg’s blog<>:Here’s my opinion:<><>Your company < HREF="http://bulletblocker.com/" REL="nofollow"><>preys on people’s fears<><> with products that are < HREF="http://bulletblocker.com/" REL="nofollow"><>extremely unlikely to be effective<><> in real life (See a gunman? Turn your back to that the backpack catches the rounds!), all while helping to provide a < HREF="http://bulletblocker.com/" REL="nofollow"><>false sense of security<><> that <>undermines efforts to make real, effective changes<> in policy to <>eliminate victim disarmament zones<>.<><>I am sure plenty of parents will simultaneously drop $400 for your < HREF="http://bulletblocker.com/" REL="nofollow">bulletproof backpacks of dubious value<> while insisting that arming teachers or staff would just lead to “more gun violence.”<><>Multi-victim shootings almost always occur in victim disarmament zones, and such rampages almost universally cease when a good guy with a gun arrives.<><>We don’t need backpacks with Kevlar. We need school and elected officials with spines who are willing to look at facts and change policies to deal with reality.

Huh. Maybe when I have the funds…As others have indicated, though, of course the best defense is a healthy offense.

Having been kidnapped and held hostage while mearly sitting in a classroom during college, this is something I would invest it for not only me, but my husband on the streets in the ambulance, and my son when he’s old enough to go to school. I’m sure the statistics say that the chances of it happening are rare, (some other comments alluded to those) but when it does happen to you, it’s worth every single penny to feel like you have a small measure of protection. I’m sorry if other folks feel like this company is preying on the fear people have, but I think they are providing a realistic service, and commend them. Thanks too, AD for posting info about it.

Wow! What a cool product!

thx for the link to that news clip, very interesting fersher…