Back to School - Bulletproof

The new school year is about to begin, once again, and retailers are of course hawking pencils, tenny shoes, spiral notebooks and such.  The normal detritus for kids going back to school.

The above items are nothing new for back to school, but there is one item out there that is new for back to school.  Bulletproof backpacks.

Dads Mike Pelonzi, 43, and Joe Curran, 42, dreamed up the bullet-proof backpack, which also blunts knife attacks, to protect their own children after witnessing the Columbine massacre in 1999.
  “It was after seeing what happened in Columbine that we started thinking about this. I’m a parent and so is Joe and we wanted a way of keeping kids safe at school and this is what we came up with,” said Pelonzi, co-owner of MJ Safety Solutions which produces ‘My Child’s Pack’.

The backpacks, which will cost $175, have a super-lightweight bullet-proof plate sewn into the back which weighs no more than a bottle of water. Pelonzi said the material used is a secret.
  The plate material meets National Institute of Justice safety standards, said Pelonzi, and during a three-year testing phase, stood up to bullets as well as machete, hatchet and Ka-bar knife attacks.

Yep, send your kids back to school with a bulletproof backpack.  That’ll keep’em safe.

Dads push bulletproof backpacks in schools

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