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上周五美国校园枪击案发生以后,针对儿童的防弹衣背包开始热销。据犹他州一家防弹装备公司总裁介绍,枪击案发生后的一周内,该公司防弹衣背包的销量是平时一个月销量的三倍。
The Newtown, Conn., mass shooting of schoolchildren seems to have had an impact in one industry: body armor backpacks. The Newtown, Conn., mass shooting of schoolchildren seems to have had an impact in one industry: body armor backpacks. Mother Jones reports that sales of the backpacks(双肩背包) designed to protect kids during a school shooting, have "gone through the roof."
Derek Williams, president of Amendment1 II, the Utah-based company that makes the packs along with lightweight body armor for military and police use, told the magazine, "I can't go into exact sales numbers, but basically we tripled our sales volume of backpacks that we typically do in a month—in one week."
Demand for the product has completely overwhelmed the company's website.
The carbon nanotube armor comes in kid-friendly themed Avengers or Disney princess versions, and at first, the company told Fox 13, just a handful were sold at gun shows. Then came the massacre2 last Friday.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy has shone a light on the company. "Our armor was being bought to protect people, the ‘preppers,’ is the term," Amendment II Chief Operating Officer Rich Brand told the Fox station. "At this point, it’s transcended3 to everyone. Anyone who’s sending out a child into the world, seeing what can happen now, they want to protect their children."
Not everyone is on board with the idea of sending children to school armed for battle.
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