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January 30, 2013 By Karen Stewartson
Answer: bulletproof whiteboard
Institutions now have an arsenal in their toolkits when it comes to campus safety.
In light of the Newtown, Conn., shooting, Maryland-based company Hardwire created a dual purpose whiteboard and clipboard that students and teachers can write on or use as a bulletproof barrier.
According to USA Today, the clipboard and whiteboard are made from mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle technology and ultra-strong, polyethylene-based textile, which held up great during a ballistic test. The whiteboard is 18x20 inches and the clipboard is 10x13.
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So, you hold up this $300 board (plus shipping & handling) & the perp shoots you in the crotch or the femoral artery and you bleed to death...then continues shooting the people who don't have one of the boards.
This is a nice idea, but how many people are truly going to think about holding up their shields in the moment? Besides, a shooter will probably not aim at the board, but randomly shoot and hit people regardless of whether or not they have a shield.
I totally agree! Those were my exact thoughts while reading the article. Ahhh America - the land of opportunity - take a tragedy and turn it into cash!!
It would be better to have a firearm available than to crouch behind a bullet proof white board. Of course our president would rather have teachers be unarmed and crouch in fear until shot. How smart is that?
This has gotten pathetic.
I want one for my office. But I need a bigger writing surface. For crying out loud, people, it's not the end-all solution, it is a non-firearm tool that would allow trained personnel 1-3 seconds of action under fire. Maybe they close the distance and interdict, maybe they get a critical door locked, maybe they get an alarm sounded they could not otherwise reach. I agree it seems a little undersized. It should also have a peel-off facing so you can reveal an image of an armed opponenet. In the chaos of an event that could draw the shooters attention to fire into the shield. A sentence diagram floating in the room hardly reads as either target or threat.