• tisamantis@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    2 years ago

    Thanks for sharing. As expected, the orange blankets are, in fact, bulletproof. I approve of this measure, but orange is such a stupid color choice.

    • Ratto@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      2 years ago

      Wait so you don’t even get the blankets provided for? You have to buy them yourself?!

      Omfg 😔

      • tisamantis@lemmygrad.ml
        4·
        2 years ago

        Bruh, I can maybe see it happening, but I think schools would be the ones buying them instead. They’re expensive.

        • Ratto@lemmygrad.ml
          3·
          2 years ago

          That’s what I was thinking, how could they possibly expect families to afford these.

          • tisamantis@lemmygrad.ml
            4·
            2 years ago

            1000$ each. And they don’t even provide as much protection, but it’s still probably better than nothing.

            • Ratto@lemmygrad.ml
              51·
              2 years ago

              Sorry kids, no school trip or holiday this year, we need to buy a mediocre bullet proof blanket that only protects against the bare minimum in case another deranged incel tries to shoot you.

              It’s kinda concerning as well given that a lot of these school shooters didn’t go in with a handgun or 22. but a full assault rifle which wouldn’t find those blankets that much of a challenge right?

    • Ratto@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      2 years ago

      Not that I can think of. This tracks.

      Maybe you could argue the bending over backwards like this to avoid gun control has a secondary effect of reinforcing the American exceptionalism around freedom and gun ownership.

      I might have mentioned this in another post but I feel the hardest challenge to any form of gun control in America is the attitudes and subconscious and overt linking of gun ownership with freedom and liberty etc.

      Like Americans prevailing cultural meme that we see over in the UK is the obsession over freedom. I feel the gun lobbies did well (for their narrative) to frame the loss or control of guns as a personal attack on American freedom so to a lot of Americans it’s not control of guns but control of their minds and bodies (the irony that this doesn’t translate to women’s body autonomy shows the patriarchy in America at full strength).

      So I’d say these ridiculous measures to continue to justify the levels of gun hoarding and ownership in America only reinforce the idea that guns ARE the physical manifestation of freedom.

  • Ratto@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    2 years ago

    Imagine living in a country that does this and thinking “lol yep this is totally fine and a reasonable reaction.”