{"id":76299,"date":"2018-02-25T08:02:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T16:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/parents-are-buying-these-gadgets-to-protect-their-kids-from-school-shooters"},"modified":"2018-02-25T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:01:19","slug":"parents-are-buying-these-gadgets-to-protect-their-kids-from-school-shooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/parents-are-buying-these-gadgets-to-protect-their-kids-from-school-shooters","title":{"rendered":"Parents are buying these gadgets to protect their kids from school shooters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/parents-are-buying-these-gadgets-to-protect-their-kids-from-school-shooters.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parents have been stocking up on bulletproof backpacks, tracking devices and doorstops\u2026 to give children a fighting chance at surviving a gunman\u2019s attack at school,\u201d the N.Y. Post reports:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBulletBlocker, a company that sells bulletproof backpacks ranging in price from $199 for a girly pink one to $490, has seen sales jump 300 percent since the Florida shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A $95 metal device called \u201cJustinKase,\u201d which is placed under a door and latches to the door\u2019s jamb to prevent entry, was invented by a 17-year-old Wisconsin high school student, Justin Rivard.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Parents are taking safety from school shooters into their own hands.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/02\/14\/17-killed-in-florida-high-school-shooting-one-of-deadliest-in-history\/\">last week\u2019s massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High<\/a> in Parkland, Fla., caregivers have been stocking up on bulletproof backpacks, tracking devices and doorstops \u2014 anything to give children a fighting chance at surviving a gunman\u2019s attack at school.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Singer, mother to a 6-year-old girl, Dylan, preordered a Jiobit, a GPS tracker designed specifically for kids, after hearing the horrific news of the 17 slaughtered in Florida on Feb. 14.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/parents-are-buying-these-gadgets-to-protect-their-kids-from-school-shooters\">Continue reading \u201cParents are buying these gadgets to protect their kids from school shooters\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents have been stocking up on bulletproof backpacks, tracking devices and doorstops\u2026 to give children a fighting chance at surviving a gunman\u2019s attack at school,\u201d the N.Y. Post reports: \u201cBulletBlocker, a company that sells bulletproof backpacks ranging in price from $199 for a girly pink one to $490, has seen sales jump 300 percent since [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76313,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76299\/revisions\/76313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}