hahahahaha....

I must admit...
funny guys...

as far as bullet proof vests for kids go...
when I grew up...not even a knifing let alone shooting ever occurred...
people settled their issues having a simple plain old fist fight...
and the individuals usually ended up friends afterwards...
sure bullying occurred...but ...it was frowned on...by kids and school staff...and was usually sorted out too...it just was different times one could say...
But as well...it is about the community that helps foster either good or bad behavior...
and I have lived in cities and found they do not foster the good.
Any of the remote and rural areas I ever lived in...haven't and still don't have such problems as exist today ...in the big cities and in places like the U.S.

I cannot imagine growing up in a place today where one does not know if you are going home on any given day from school ..by bus, ambulance or hearse...
That isn't how any kid should grow up.