'Body armor helps these killers kill more people.'
The body armor seen above at a gun expo in 2015 is not banned for civilian use in the U.S. Photo: The Washington Post via Getty Im The gunman who killed 19 children in a single classroom in Uvalde, Texas, wasn’t quite as prepared as the 18-year-old who killed ten people in a supermarket in a racist attack in Buffalo just 10 days before.
Even if the killer in Uvalde did not wear the vest as intended, he joins a growing line of American mass murderers who have turned to body armor to make their attacks more deadly.
The Buffalo shooter knew this. In a manifesto shortly before his attack, he wrote that he needed a plate carrier vest to “minimize the chance of instant death” from a security officer. He claimed to have bought two plates from a manufacturer called RMA Armament, a company founded in 2013 by an ex-Marine who named it after the initials of his three daughters.
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