05.28.13
WhiteManistan business opportunity
From the WaPost, WhiteManistan’s best have created an artisan’s market out of national gun fail:
With his new line, MC Kids, Caballero offers backpacks and jackets for kids, including some in girlie pink and stamped with fluttering fairies, that are also outfitted with bulletproof plating to stop the slugs from an Uzi. Caballero, 46, said that in his 20 years of business, there had never been a demand in Colombia for bulletproof children’s clothing.
But the United States is a different market: a country where there are about as many firearms as people, Caballero pointed out, and where mass shootings have simply prompted some to stock up on weapons and seek other forms of protection.
“The rest of the countries in the world try to disarm, but in the United States they say, ‘Let’s protect ourselves,’???? he said. “So in that light, that’s a business opportunity.???
About 300 of the children’s rucksacks, retailing for just under $300, have been sold in metropolitan Denver by Caballero’s U.S. distributor, Elite Sterling Security …
The article ads the company is trying to sell its tactical vests into classrooms.
“[It’s a] complete indictment for our gun policy that we’d put bulletproof clothing on our children instead of stopping the bullets in the first place,??? someone sane tells the newspaper.