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Bulletproofing America’s Classrooms - Ballistic armor companies are marketing protective products designed for the military to parents and schools (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This is one of those things that, compared against the number of students in schools in the US, is so vanishingly rare that it's not even worth worrying about on an individual basis. The 230 school shootings in a decade--23 per year--is divided among roughly 129,000 schools. The odds that any given school will experience a shooting in a given year is about .017%. Spending huge amounts of money on it, rather than things that actually make a real difference (like, say, qualified psychologist working as school counselors) is asinine.

Do I have body armor? Yup. Do I use it all the time? Nope. The only reason I have it is for division rules; I do armored competition division for PCSL, along with other gun run and brutality type events, so I gotta have it to make division rules. There's no way in hell I'd wear the shit on the daily unless I was in an active war zone.