Bulletproof steel shelters sold as solution to school shootings
by Matthew Cantor from US news | The Guardian on (#61GWD)
They're an alarming symbol of an American crisis. Do they represent our inevitable future?
A company in Fort Pierce, Florida - not far from Parkland, site of the 2018 school shooting that killed 17 - is stirring controversy with its plan to protect children from school shootings by hiding them in bullet-resistant steel enclosures.
To many, the idea of directing children into stark metal boxes serves as an alarming symbol of a country that fails time and again to address the causes of its gun violence crisis.
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