The gun-grabber's alternative to shooting back...

I saw this on News 12 Long Island earlier, and I thought I'd dig it up and post it here.

I want to laugh at this ludicrous idea, but given the seriousness of the subject matter, I can only shake my head sadly.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the bulletproof dry-erase board:

http://kwgn.com/2013/01/22/company-makes-bulletproof-white-board-for-classrooms/

So instead of doing the sensible thing and giving schools the means to shoot back at a rampaging maniac, the best idea they can come up with is getting teachers to deflect bullets with a shield like Captain America.

Aside from the fact that only a comic book super hero could fend off a barrage of fire with a shield, where are all of those ricocheting bullets going to end up?

And even if this device really would work, why does it need to be disguised as a dry erase board?

rjrivero said:

Every tool can be useful.

I don't see anything wrong with it. It's much better than what they have now!

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Well for a start, they showed a video on the news and the shield was moving all over the place as the bullets hit. It looked as though a hit to the top of the shield would rotate it backwards and direct the bullet upwards under the jaw of the person using it.

I can still see how it would perhaps be better to have some kind of shield than not have one, but only as a means to buy time to draw your handgun.
If this type of incident lasts in the range of minutes, hiding behind a shield would be useless.

The only valid application I can see is using the shield to rush the attacker, but what the teachers need is a means to shoot back, or a security guard/cop to do it for them.

VVelox said:

I would not say it is the antis coming up with this. Looks to be a armor company hoping to make a quick buck by preying on the stupid.

http://www.hardwirellc.com/solutions/whiteboards.html

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Yes indeed, however they showed this on the news as a viable thing.
The manufacturers are certainly capitalizing on the tragedy, but the leftist news drew attention to it as a potential solution to the problem; 'See, we don't need guns, we can use a shield!'.

It seems like they will jump on any idea that doesn't involve shooting back, no matter how ridiculous.

This shield falls squarely in the 'mall ninja' category as far as I'm concerned.


I don't want an untrained and terrified teacher with a comic book shield trying to defend my kids from a madman with a gun, I want that same teacher or some other brave man or woman with a pistol and the training to use it.