What I take away from this girl’s altruistic attempt to preserve her own life and others is that she is actually doing something about gun violence. The grown-ups just argue.

What about poor kids? So the rich kids get protected and the poor kids, who are more likely to get shot due to the neighborhoods in which they live, don’t get protection?

These things are going to end up being stolen. One may even be used as a bulletproof vest to help CARRY OUT an attack. Granted, the same argument could be made for guns, themselves. But there’s a little something called the 2nd Amendment that changes that analysis.

P.S. The plane example is completely inappropriate. If you stopped doing checkpoints, you would eventually have rampant hijackings and bombings for sure – a 100% certainty. Since 9/11, not one deadly bomb has been successfully deployed or a hijacking pulled off on a U.S. plane.

But even if everyone in the entire school has a LifePlate, it won’t stop a shooting. You could say the same for seat belts. But again, the odds of being involved in an accident are astronomically higher than being shot. That’s why it is prudent to use seat belts. And they are already in the car, anyway (whether you are a rich passenger or a poor passenger).

The government should be doing its job and coming up with better school security instead of relying on these haphazard attempts at a solution like the LifePlate.