'Bulletproof' Blanket Is ** Match for a School Shooting

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'Bulletproof' Blanket Is ** Match for a School Shooting
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Like many parents in the wake of a disaster, Steve Walker wanted solutions.

In the aftermath of the 2012 school shootings at Sandy Hook (http://mashable.com/category/sandy-hook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Elementary School and the 2013 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma (http://mashable.com/2013/05/20/oklahoma-tornado-social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Walker dreamt up a Bodyguard Blanket that he promised would help protect children from a gunman's bullet or falling debris. Local and national news outlets around the country jumped on the story, hailing it as a lifesaving device.

See also: 20 Gripping Photos of Extreme Weather (http://mashable.com/2013/07/14/extreme-weather-photos/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


But in reality, **t even the highest-caliber blanket could have saved the children in Moore. The tornado was measured as an EF-5, the strongest level on the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Damage Scale (http://www.spc.**aa.gov/faq/tornado/ef-scale.html), with estimated winds higher than 200 miles per hour Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/12/bulletproof-blanket/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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