READER LETTER | A bulletproof backpack tells a student that they are possibly going to be shot at and that is not something a child, especially a primary school child, should have to face.
The solution is not to increase the number and power of guns, shame on you NRA, but to restrict their use to people that have a proper reason for their use:
military, police, farmers and even recreational users but no home should have a collection of assault weapons. It's time for kids to smile, not cower in fear.
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