The Byrna Shield

 

Learning from Andrew Pollack's Tragedy

Could Prevent Your Own...

Introducing The Byrna Shield:

A Commonsense Solution to a Difficult Reality

As children are going back to school, parents must be more vigilant than ever, get active in the schools and school boards, and seek out practical solutions to keeping their children safe. Getting involved locally can make a big difference. We are encouraged by the news of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspending four members of the Broward County School Board after reviewing a grand jury investigation into the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. (The jury recommended that the board be suspended due to incompetence, neglect of duty and misuse of authority related to the shooting.) But what more can parents do to keep their children out of harm's way?

Parents are responsible for their children when they send them out the door.

They should know if and how their school is prepared against an active shooter.

Take action by ensuring your child has a chance to survive an active shooter.

While writing his book, Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies that Created Parkland's Shooter and Endanger America's Students, Parkland, FL shooting parent Andrew Pollack teamed up with a renowned education expert, Max Eden, to investigate and expose everything that enabled the tragedy. They quickly realized that it was the most avoidable mass murder in American history. And scarier still: the policies that made it inevitable have spread to your child's school.

An active shooting can take place anytime, anywhere.

The statistics are alarming!

School shootings are a wide-reaching problem that has gotten progressively worse in the past four decades. These horrific tragedies are unpredictable - no one knows where or when an active school shooting will take place. As difficult as this topic is to address, we must confront it head-on. Our children's lives are at stake. As parents, it is our duty to ensure their safety.

Learn about the sobering statistics from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security. Did you know:

·    The most common age of a shooter is 17, followed by 16 and 15.

·    Handguns were the most commonly used weapon in school shootings: Handguns: 1,344;

·    Rifles: 107.

·    Fall is the most common time of year for school shootings.

·    148 of the 320 students shot on college campuses were shot in mass shootings.

THE SOLUTION: As easy to insert into a standard-sized student backpack as a school notebook, the Byrna Shield Backpack Body Armor is a thin, lightweight (14 oz.), flexible Level IIIA-rated ballistic plate. It can withstand up to 6 hits from .44 magnum bullets with velocities up to 1,464 feet-per-second, essentially making it capable of stopping every handgun on the market today.

For the price of a pair of sneakers, parents can have peace of mind knowing they're giving their children a chance to survive when the unthinkable happens... and avoid the high cost of regret. And 10% of every purchase goes to the Meadow Pollack Memorial Fund to supply inner city schoolchildren with ballistic backpack body armor and other school supplies. Get your Byrna Shield today... use Promo Code: Andy10 to save 10%.

ABOUT ANDREW POLLACK: Andy became a nationally recognized activist for increased school safety measures after the High School shooting in Parkland Florida on February 14, 2018, which took the lives of 17 people, including his daughter, Meadow. Since that day, Andy has made it his life's mission to continue advocating for smarter, real-life solutions to an increasing yet avoidable issue in the United States.  After seventeen people were murdered at a high school in Parkland, Florida in 2018, the national conversation focused exclusively on a handful of students fighting for gun control. The media ignored the questions that matter: Why did this happen? How can we stop it from happening again? Moving forward without answers wasn't an option for Andy. He now dedicates his life to making schools safe again, founding a non-profit Americans for Children's Lives and School Safety and making sure that the families of victims get answers and justice.