Companies that sell bulletproof backpacks say demand is on the rise in the wake of two mass shootings that left 32 people dead and 50 injured this weekend.

The bags are being purchased by parents who fear their kids may fall prey to gun violence when they return to class in just a few weeks, reports the New York Times.

'It's incredibly depressing,' Igor Volsky, director of Guns Down America, a gun-control advocacy group, told the Times.

'The market is trying to solve for a problem that our politicians have refused to solve.'

Companies like ArmorMe, which sells bulletproof backpacks (above) designed to protect pupils from shooters, are expected to cash-in over the next few weeks as families snatch up the armored bags to protect their kids when the return to school this fall

'We are just responding to a need,' says Israeli security specialist Gabi Siboni, who runs AmorMe, which sells bulletproof back packs (above) designed to protect students from gun attacks

Backpack companies first beefed up marketing of the armored bags after the 2018 Parkland, Florida, school shootings, which left 17 students and staff members dead, and injured 17 more.

Another school shooting at Santa Fe High School that same year left 10 people dead. The body count was more than double that after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown Connecticut, left 28 dead, including the shooter.

To date, no school mass shooting has eclipsed the massacre at Virginia Tech in 2007, which claimed 31 lives.

Compounding fears now as parents get ready to send their kids back to class this fall are the massacres in El Paso on Saturday, which resulted in 22 more deaths and 24 injuries, and in Dayton early Sunday, which left ten people dead, including the gunman.

Companies selling bulletproof backpacks after the latest carnage want $100 to 200 for the bags, which can be found at Office Max, Office Depot and even Kmart.

'It could be the difference between life and death,' said Yasir Sheikh, who runs Guard Dog Security, one of the companies that's expected to cash in as students return to class this fall.

JT Lewis, who lost his younger brother, Jesse, in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., says he'll be starting class at University of Connecticut with a bulletproof bag his mother bought him.

'I don't know if it's going to have any effect,' Lewis told the Times. 'But it might if I get shot from behind.'

Amanda Deacon, a mother of an eight-year-old and four-year-old from Brigantine, New Jersey, quickly said she would purchase armored bags for her children.

'Yes, I would. Why not?' the mom told CNBC.

ArmorMe, a company with ties to the Israeli military and security services, began selling Kevlar-covered backpacks earlier this year that are designed to protect pupils from gun attacks. The bags costs between $160 and $190 for a single-paneled backpack.

A bulletproof backpack sold by Guard Dog Security can sell for $100 to $200

'We never know when violent attacks may occur,' says Israeli Security Specialist and retired IDF Colonel Dr. Gabi Siboni, who runs AmorMe.

Siboni said it was unfair to suggest his company and others were profiting off America's fear of another gun attack.

'Whatever you do, you're capitalizing on something,' he told the Times. 'We are just responding to a need.'

However, parents are being warned that some companies are falsely promising their bags are certified by the National Institute of Justice, which oversees the body armor used by law enforcement.

The agency, part of the Justice Department, has not certified, or even tested, bulletproof backpacks and has no plans to do so, Mollie Timmons, a department spokeswoman told the Times.