Bulletproof Clothing for America’s Schoolkids? Seriously?

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The collapse of the Senate’s gun control efforts last week has left parents to wonder what, if anything, might protect their children from another Newtown-style massacre. The world’s leading high-fashion bulletproof clothing company has an answer: discreet kid-sized body armor woven into school backpacks, t-shirts, and puffer vests. The new line of clothing from Miguel Caballero, a Colombia-based company best-known for outfitting celebrities, executives, and political figures, is aimed specifically at the US market as a response to the number of mass shootings here. Watch: