Scared parents are reportedly scrambling to buy bulletproof backpacks after 19 Robb Elementary students were killed in a shooting on May 24 in Uvalde, Texas.
. A company called Tuffypacks saw a 300-percent spike in sales of its armored bag inserts, which can be placed inside any retail backpack, TMZ said.in a recent interview that 20 percent of its web visits and calls in the day following the shooting were for its armor inserts, which it said were being shipped across the country.
“We are always making awareness of the training and security for schools but sadly it is just at a moment of a tragedy that they look for it,” marketing manager Carolina Ballesteros told the outlet.last week said shootings are something “that is very much a threat to our children” that needs to be taken seriously.“Just as we educate and prepare our children in school for what to do in the event of a fire, we now must do the same for an active shooter,” the post said.
But the backpacks have their detractors, with criticisms that they are long shots to offer real protection because kids aren’t wearing them during class and the items can only partially cover someone’s body.Some retail outlets reportedly don’t stock the products over liability concerns, according to the Dallas Morning News.
“It’s like putting a Band-Aid on a wound, expecting it to cure a symptom but ignoring the root of the problem,” former teacher Carmelina Grilli told the newspaper. “It seems to me we are reacting from inside out instead of it being the system that has control so that the inside — the educational system, children and the entire population – is not affected,” she added.
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