Sales Of Bulletproof Blankets Beat Maker's 'Wildest Expectations'

The Huffington Post | By Kevin Short
Posted: 06/12/2014 8:10 am EDT Updated: 06/12/2014 10:59 am EDT

The alarming rate of school shootings across the country appears to have added an unsettling new item to parents' list of "back to school" items: bulletproof armor for their children. Among such items, the Bodyguard Blanket, a portable, bulletproof covering for children, has seen its sales exceed its manufacturer's expectations in less than two weeks on the market.

Stan Schone, managing partner at manufacturer ProTecht, told The Huffington Post that consumer response to the product has "far exceeded our wildest expectations" in the 10 days that the blanket has been available for purchase.

"If mass shootings weren't such an integrated part of our culture, you'd think this was an SNL skit or an Onion article," Caroline Moss of Business Insider wrote of the product.

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Student opens fire

CNN Reporter Sums Up Everything Horrible About School Shootings In One Quote

This, it would seem, is where things are in a country beset by these kinds of events over and over: something that should be a horrible aberration is instead common enough for everybody—the media, the government, the police—to slip back into a mode they know all too well.

...the cable networks began their inexorable shift away from the frivolity of a Friday with little going on, and made their well-rehearsed turns towards covering the newest tragedy; 
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Dead Colorado school shooter wanted 'revenge' on faculty member, sheriff says

By Ana Cabrera, Chelsea J. Carter and Tom Watkins, CNN

updated 9:04 PM EST, Fri December 13, 2013

Centennial, Colorado (CNN) -- A student who opened fire Friday inside a suburban Denver high school appears to have been seeking revenge against a faculty member because of a "confrontation or disagreement," the Arapahoe County sheriff said.

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