A Bulletproof Blanket for Your Kids!
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 4th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
A Bulletproof Blanket for Your Kids!
One way to curb mass shootings in America’s schools would be for Congress to pass gun control legislation. But since that plan failed miserably, an enterprising father in Oklahoma is offering another solution — equipping children with bulletproof blankets. The Bodyguard Blanket was developed by Steve Walker, a father of two elementary school students who was horrified by the December 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newton, Connecticut, which left 20 children and six adults dead. In the fourteen months following Newtown, there were at least 44 school shootings. “We wanted our children to have a layer of protection immediately,” Walker told NBC-afilliated Oklahoma news station, KFOR. They can be stored in the classroom, and, when seconds count, they can be easily applied.”
Claim 6 Soldiers Died for Bergdahl Questioned
Did the search for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl cost the lives of American soldiers? A number of the men who served with him have called him a deserter. Some have gone further, blaming him for the deaths of six to eight soldiers. But a review of casualty reports and contemporaneous military logs from the Afghanistan war shows that the facts surrounding the eight deaths are far murkier than definitive — even as critics of Sergeant Bergdahl contend that every American combat death in Paktika Province in the months after he disappeared, from July to September 2009, was his fault.