A: Body armor protects. It will prevent puncture wounds. It will deflect knives. It will stop bullets. Body armor will save your life.
An otter box is a shoe box full of otters. In theory, it might help you - if the otters were rabid, or hungry or trained to kill. But we don't live in theory. We live in reality. And in reality, all your otters are dead. A shoe box full of dead otters won't protect a thing.
Knowing all that, which would you rather have, the body armor or the otter box?
Choose again.
Try again.
One more time. Really think about it this time.
Is that your final choice?
Okay.
We can't allow you to work on the President's protection detail. That job requires the ability to take a bullet for the President. That ability requires a understanding of what body armor does.
Thank you for your time. Best of luck in your future endeavors.
Don't forget your otters.