except the threat is all too real for these poor kids….

I spent more than a little time in the furnace ductwork in elementary school sitting on a square of cardboard (to keep clothes clean) during the periodic air raid drills.

It all got very real in October, 1962. I was in Junior High school and was a paper boy -- afternoon Detroit News. I was called out of school to get my ass to the paper station on that bad Monday when Kennedy was going to make his big speech. That would happen when there was big news. The only other time it happened was a year later when JFK was killed in Dallas.

In short, we were fucking scared. But I did my job of getting the latest news to my customers. But it was very scary.

not my point. My point is that kids are actually being murdered in schools today.

But I get your point.

It is a fake threat, trumped up by those who wish for you to live in perpetual fear.

Your kids have a greater probability of being killed by the TV falling off their dresser in their room than of being shot in their school.

Pure lunacy.

all day long...hopeless

Do people know what these are and what they were created for?

I suppose there is the chance that a child might survive a direct gunshot to one of these devices, but the odds of one still being injured or killed by a shot to the many unprotected areas are great.

This is basically "fear profiteering".

The original news story was that they were created for kids in Oklahoma to survive tornadoes after 7(?) were killed during that last burst. They were designed to stop a bullet because debris in the tornadoes tore through them like bullets.

I just punched it into google and all of the recent hits are that they were for school shootings.