I'd rather hide in a locker.
I'm small enough, I'll stay in there. Have my phone with me on silent just in case, wait till the police scope the building and have them let me out.
I think I would be too much of an idiot to call the police... the first thing id do is get on funsubstance.
And thats why the cops were 20 minutes late.
This is actually for earthquakes and stopping shit from falling on from the ceiling. Tables would work just as well but god knows that high school (and some middle school) desks are too small to fit a forearm much less an entire human much less the entire goddamn class. They're orange so that emergency workers can easily find them. I'd also assume they were fluorescent for this purpose as well. If they were actually going to give bulletproof shit to kids, I'd highly suggest surplus police armor (I think they have to retire body armor after seven years or getting shot or something like that) and maybe something like
https://warosu.org/data/cgl/img/0064/16/1352970831416.jpg
this for the teacher.
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If they did this, I'd pay to become a teacher.
They're also being used in the Midwest for tornado protection. Thats why you see them all lined up out in the hall in the picture. While tornados do strike quickly, there is (usually) enough warning to be able to take cover.
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Here's the thing though, they are made from Dyneema, a material that is similar to kevlar in its strength. It's lighter and more flexible, but it is also less effective than kevlar.
ALSO, the last time I checked, these blankets had not actually been tested or evaluated for ballistic protection to the NIJ standards. It might be illegal to claim ballistic protection, if it hasn't been tested for it.
How fucked up a country can be when it decides to give bulletproof blanket to children instead of instauring gun control... I even saw a TV Show where some dude was presenting bulletproof bagpacks... WTF is wrong with U murica....
Yeah but it allows it's citizens to carry guns, a lunatic with a gun isn't gonna stop because he's not allowed the gun in there, but if no-one sold him the gun it'd be a little harder for him wouldn't it? -_- (and I know the blankets aren't for that reason)
Uh.. You do realize most of the people who do crimes with guns would get guns anyways from their underground sources and they wouldn't care if guns were legal or not. But for people who need them for self defense suddenly they'd be without them. There'd be more civilian deaths from home break ins and murderers.
I'm sorry but just look at statistics, countries with strict gun laws in place have a significantly lower rate of gun related crime, and I mean a huge difference. I don't doubt that gangs and criminals could still get hold of guns but the average person can't just walk into a shop and say 'oh that guns big I'll have 3 of those'. You could say 'guns don't kill people, people kill people' but it's a little bit harder for people to kill people when they don't have 5 guns in the garage, 'for safety'. Also in most countries with gun laws the police don't carry guns, and you know how many people are accedentally killed because 'I thought he was armed' or 'he looked wrong'? None.
"Countries with strict gun laws in place have a significantly lower rate of gun related crime."
And instead have an increased rate of crime with other weapons. Also the only way this statistic would really be valid is if the inverse were true as well, that is to say that countries with more relaxed gun laws have an increased rate of gun crime. Sorry but Switzerland alone blows that out of the water.
To further address your point, we've tried stricter gun laws in many of our cities. Guess what, every single time the rate of violent crime increased.
The U.S. doesn't have a gun problem, we have an "urban youth" problem.
"and an increase rate of crimes with other weapons"
I would much rather be attacked by someone with a knife than with a gun, atleast then I have a fighting chance.
Just look at this website
http://www.humanosphere.org/science/2014/03/visualizing-gun-deaths-comparing-the-u-s-to-rest-of-the-world/-
Adjusting for differences in population size, rates of homicides from guns were 6.6 times larger in the US than in Portugal, the country with one of the highest rates in Western Europe. -Western Europe, in general, also has strict gun laws.
The US has higher rates of homicides from guns than Pakistan at 4.5 deaths per 100,000 people.
As for Switzerland it has hardly any gun laws and also just happens to have the one of the highest gun crime rates in Europe, even then the reason for the high rate of gun owner ship is "The vast majority of men between the ages of 20 and 30 are conscripted into the militia and undergo military training." a little more safe than random home owner right?
Plus of course stricter regulations in certain states doesn't work, all someone would have to do would be drive an hour or so and they can buy a gun legally, no black market stuff or anything dangerous, it's all completely legal.
Jut saying, I don't think it's about the laws about guns, it's the people. The U.S. just needs to educate the students more about the dangers of guns. Like Canada has almost the same amount of guns per person compared to USA, but we don't have as much shootings. Just stop the problem at the source (the people)
I'm not saying it's just the guns problem but if people don't have the guns or there is strict legislation saying you have to have a certain level of training and maybe a phsyc evaluation to own a gun then the amount of random shootings by lunatics and accidental shootings by untrained citizens would go down. Like in Switzerland the people with the guns have undergone military training.
I'm small enough, I'll stay in there. Have my phone with me on silent just in case, wait till the police scope the building and have them let me out.
And thats why the cops were 20 minutes late.
https://warosu.org/data/cgl/img/0064/16/1352970831416.jpg
this for the teacher.
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If they did this, I'd pay to become a teacher.
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Here's the thing though, they are made from Dyneema, a material that is similar to kevlar in its strength. It's lighter and more flexible, but it is also less effective than kevlar.
ALSO, the last time I checked, these blankets had not actually been tested or evaluated for ballistic protection to the NIJ standards. It might be illegal to claim ballistic protection, if it hasn't been tested for it.
And instead have an increased rate of crime with other weapons. Also the only way this statistic would really be valid is if the inverse were true as well, that is to say that countries with more relaxed gun laws have an increased rate of gun crime. Sorry but Switzerland alone blows that out of the water.
To further address your point, we've tried stricter gun laws in many of our cities. Guess what, every single time the rate of violent crime increased.
The U.S. doesn't have a gun problem, we have an "urban youth" problem.
I would much rather be attacked by someone with a knife than with a gun, atleast then I have a fighting chance.
Just look at this website
http://www.humanosphere.org/science/2014/03/visualizing-gun-deaths-comparing-the-u-s-to-rest-of-the-world/-
Adjusting for differences in population size, rates of homicides from guns were 6.6 times larger in the US than in Portugal, the country with one of the highest rates in Western Europe. -Western Europe, in general, also has strict gun laws.
The US has higher rates of homicides from guns than Pakistan at 4.5 deaths per 100,000 people.
As for Switzerland it has hardly any gun laws and also just happens to have the one of the highest gun crime rates in Europe, even then the reason for the high rate of gun owner ship is "The vast majority of men between the ages of 20 and 30 are conscripted into the militia and undergo military training." a little more safe than random home owner right?