Bulletproof backpacks are making it onto back-to-school shopping lists this year following several mass shootings. - TODAYShow
"I don’t think any person, adult or child, is going to have the time or clarity of thought to grab a backpack and uses it as a shield," said Jennifer Wharton, a mom of a 10-year-old and a 14-year-old in Los Angeles."Ask the Parkland students or the Sandy Hook children. The backpacks are also extremely heavy and it would slow down anyone who is trying to take cover or run."
Schonfeld did echo Wharton and VanDermark's concerns about the backpacks not being accessible. He said he would be concerned about students trying to get their backpacks instead of sheltering in place or fleeing the area. "It's not based on logic, it's based on fear," he said."To be investing the money and resources into something that has limited efficacy, when there are other things that you could use that money for and that time for, it might not be a good decision."Other parents said that they wouldn't upset their children by insisting on using the bulletproof backpacks.
"The idea of handing [my 5-year-old] a backpack and explaining that he should use it to shield his body from bullets is beyond comprehension to me," said Mary Katherine Backstrom, a Florida-based
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