Prompted by the tragic deaths of 27 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School, an Australian security expert has developed a bulletproof bookcase that he hopes will potentially save lives in the event of future school attacks.
Craig Harwood, a former policeman who runs a security firm called Secure-Corp, was prompted into action after his tearful daughter watched the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shootings and asked him to do something.
“I was on the couch with my 11-year-old daughter, we both had tears in our eyes, and she said: 'Dad, can't you invent something to stop this from happening?”
The idea is that the bookcase, named dFence and costing about $3600 each, can be easily wheeled to cover windows and doors to prevent gunmen shooting through or gaining access to classrooms. Each item is fitted with layers of bullet-proof glass strong enough to stop bullets from the most commonly used rifles and hand guns in the U.S.
'It is a pretty simple idea. I wanted something that aesthetically merges with the environment. 'Students don't know what it is and children don't need to know what it is,'' said Harwood.
The Australian federal government has supported Harwood in his mission and even helped him arrange meetings with the United States Department of Homeland Security and The Department of Education in Washington in February.
While Harwood’s invention underlines the very limited impact made by advocates of stricter gun laws and the solid and strong stance by the NRA and their second amendment followers, the bulletproof bookcase does represent a solution of sort, but whether it’s the final solution of a very grave problem is yet to be seen.
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