Seems fine rule

It shouldn't be more dangerous to be a 9th grader than a CEO.

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?

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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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

“There’s no way to prevent this”, say conservatives in the only country where this regularly happens.

A boring dystopia.

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.

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

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.

Shithole country. You cannot change my mind.

Can these kids donate them to protect our CEOs? Our CEOs are our most valuable asset

Pretty fucked up, but not a bad idea for the situation they are in.

Guys, is the USA alright?

Obligatory Onion link

No Way To Prevent This

Instead of giving school kids free lunch. Schools are buying them backpack armor.

Imagine being telling kids to wear body armour rather than dealing with the gun problem.

Great gift for your closest CEO.

We could instead be out of billionaires in two months.

“I never thought I’d need this,” one student told Fox 29. {mosads}

But parents and guardians of students told the news outlet that while a bulletproof backpack may be extreme, it’s necessary.

“You hear about these school shootings almost weekly, and I can’t believe that’s where we are in our nation today, but that’s the fact,” said one great-grandparent

Fuck... this was 2018. Sure hope those kids never needed those backpacks.

Those plates don't stop rifle rounds. The school shootings we hear about (actual mass shootings) nearly always involve a rifle. Given that fact, those plates are just useless weights.

I'm glad they said it was Pennsylvania, I would have never guessed this was the US.

That's some real most developed country in the world shit

I hate this fucking country so much.

Local conservative afraid of everything, dumps his trauma onto kids. More at eleven.

Was one given a gun?

Has bullying stopped there or is it still a thing?

This is just stupid fear tactics because there really is a low amount of school shootings nationwide compared to the sheer amount of schools.

This whole fear tactic has been used to try to remove guns so that CEO's and other higher class people can stave off the coming anger against them.

The people pushing, and winning, the class war have studied the French Revolution and would want to make it impossible for regular people to fight against their private military contractors. Make people afraid and you can make them choose against their own interests.

Gives me the idea to get a plate....I have a spot for a camelbak on my backpack, I could put in a plate and have yet another reason my backpack is called "wierd".