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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Richard Roeper

‘2nd Chance’: A bulletproof vest innovator tells his dramatic, sometimes dubious story

As “2nd Chance” recounts, Richard Davis repeatedly put his own life at risk to test the bulletproof vest he invented. (Vespucci)

Richard Davis shot himself 192 times — literally shot himself, usually on camera, while demonstrating the modern-day concealed bulletproof vest he invented in the 1970s. It can be argued that no one in the history of humankind has ever shot himself that many times.

Why. Would. They.

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