Books &.... Bulletproof Backpacks????

Please take a minute to read this article. Please tell me it blows your mind like it did mine. B L O W N.

In the shadow of several horrible tragedies at America's schools, companies worldwide are producing bullet-proof or bullet-resistant school supplies. In America. Whoa. Is this really where we are??

This is where the whole "gun thing" stops making sense to me. We want the right to bear arms to protect ourselves from crazy criminals who are bearing arms? Or - even more mind boggling - we want the right to bear arms just to have them?? On principle because otherwise our rights are being violated? You lost me.

I get it - hunting, protection from Bears, target shooting..... guns can serve a purpose to a section of the population. But why, Joe or Jane Citizen, do you need to carry a gun with you while you are walking down the street? Is it so that in case someone tries to shoot you, you shoot them first? Will it serve as your psycho-shield?? Or, is it because we have become so ridiculously entitled here in America that we simply can not stand the thought of our government telling us that we point blank CAN NOT do something?

I'll never get it.

Bulletproof school supplies say to me that we concede that the school massacres are just going to continue. Companies like this in America will be successful because we are absolutely incapable of coming together as a nation to address it.

The United States used to represent freedom and opportunity and prosperity. These days, I feel like our country is slipping farther and farther from that ideal and the world is watching as we teeter on the edge of disaster.

I hate being a Debbie Downer. HATE IT. Sometimes it just gets to be a bit much. I'd definitely call bulletproof backpacks a bit much....