What’s wrong with this picture? Bulletproof white boards and bulletproof backpacks being sold to protect kids in schools — next, bulletproof uniforms?
Lined with ballistic material that can stop a 9 mm bullet, backpacks being sold by Elite Sterling Security of Denver are only one of a clutch of new products making their way into U.S. schools in the wake of the Newtown school massacre.
According to press reports, the company is in discussion with more than a dozen schools in Colorado about equipping them with ballistic safety vests, a scaled-down version of military uniforms designed to hang in classroom cupboards for children to wear in an emergency.
Thomas Austin
VANCOUVER
