Enhance Your Safety With ‘Protector’ App: Uber-Like Service With Armed Drivers

We truly have an app for everything. Armed Bodyguards? There's an App for That Go ahead and add Armed bodyguards to list of there is an app for that. There's an app called Protector and it recently just hit the App Store. For $1,000, you can have an armed guard drive you around. Unfortunately, it's only available in New York and L.A. to start. People are calling it "Uber with guns." Sounds a little scary to me but it is a thing.

Do you happen to remember Apple's old "There's an App for That" ad from way back in 2009? Probably not but the whole point of there is an app for that is show just how many things apps can and will do for us. We may have finally hit a point where there really is an app for everything.

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The designated armed drivers are either retired law enforcement, or active duty. So that helps to make one feel a little better about this, I guess. The app was announced last year. But you might have heard about it last month when they did a video showing what COULD have happened if the gunned-down healthcare CEO had the app.

There's a $129 annual fee, and prices start at $1,000. You can pay more to protect multiple people or have a whole motorcade with up to three Escalades. Make it a parade because why not. Who knows maybe one day this service will make its way to Montana and even the surrounding states. As for now you must travel to get your armed driver and Escalade and roll around town. What a world we live in.