From the I kid you not department.
Miguel Caballero has been making bullet-proof clothes for politicians and other bigwigs for 20 years, but not for kids. The latest US school massacre has changed that.This year he plans a line for children — T-shirts, vests, and combination backpack-vests — and geared toward the US market.
Caballero has made good money in his 22-year-old business with a factory on the outskirts of Bogota. He sells around 50,000 garments a year that go for about $2,000 a piece, but the US market had been tough to crack.Then, after a lone and deranged gunman killed 20 small children and six staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School last month in Newtown, Connecticut, he started getting orders from very worried parents.
“We would answer that we do not make clothes for kids. But the emails kept coming,” Caballero said.
So, in just a week, he designed garments and subjected them to ballistic tests. Now his factory is fitted to churn out a first lot of 1,800 bullet-proof garments for children and is waiting for firm orders.
The obvious solution to recurrent gun massacres is to ensure that every person (including every child) is equipped with an automatic rifle and bullet-proof armour. Plus they should also have a well-stocked arsenal of grenades and missle launchers, and a bomb-proof panic room, just in case.
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