Which is quite a thing to say, considering how dangerous polar bears are! But a polar bear wandering into a small town will typically wind up killing 0 people. If the number is anything other than 0, it’s going to be 1. A polar bear would normally no reason to kill more than one person! A school shooter, on the other hand, is definitely looking to kill more than one person. In the ten years from 2012 to 2022, the average number of fatalities in school mass shootings was 14. That’s almost double the average number of fatalities from 1997 to 2012 (7.6 fatalities per school mass shooting).
Right?! IIRC, I heard from a teacher or someone in Canada about lockdown drills in a small Canadian town—for, like, a polar bear sighting in town or something. Must be nice!
I went to a Catholic grade school in the 60s - and the Pastor was convinced that we.could be attacked by Russia (or other Commies) at any moment. We regularly had "duck and cover" drills, and even occasionally went into the bomb shelter in the school basement. Unlike the reality of school shootings today, those drills did not create much fear or anxiety for us - it was not an existential threat. I can't imagine how different it is for today's students. When will we actually address the gun problem in this cointry?
Brother deacon, as long as the gun industry is making billions of dollars from our country’s disordered relationship with guns, we will never be allowed to address it.
The Columbine shooting happened when I was a freshman in high school. The following school year, we had an active shooter drill. It was the only one we had, but it made the local news. We also had to evacuate at least once for a bomb threat, which thankfully wound up being false. I know about the run-hide-fight protocol because we have to learn it at my work, a grocery store. As anyone who pays attention to the news know, they have also been another unfortunate target of recent mass shootings. God help us.
I’ll take a polar bear any time!
Which is quite a thing to say, considering how dangerous polar bears are! But a polar bear wandering into a small town will typically wind up killing 0 people. If the number is anything other than 0, it’s going to be 1. A polar bear would normally no reason to kill more than one person! A school shooter, on the other hand, is definitely looking to kill more than one person. In the ten years from 2012 to 2022, the average number of fatalities in school mass shootings was 14. That’s almost double the average number of fatalities from 1997 to 2012 (7.6 fatalities per school mass shooting).
That something so horrendous has become a drill at all!
Right?! IIRC, I heard from a teacher or someone in Canada about lockdown drills in a small Canadian town—for, like, a polar bear sighting in town or something. Must be nice!
I went to a Catholic grade school in the 60s - and the Pastor was convinced that we.could be attacked by Russia (or other Commies) at any moment. We regularly had "duck and cover" drills, and even occasionally went into the bomb shelter in the school basement. Unlike the reality of school shootings today, those drills did not create much fear or anxiety for us - it was not an existential threat. I can't imagine how different it is for today's students. When will we actually address the gun problem in this cointry?
Brother deacon, as long as the gun industry is making billions of dollars from our country’s disordered relationship with guns, we will never be allowed to address it.
The only drill I remember in grade school, was huddling against a wall in case of nuclear attack …
We Gen Xers are too young for nuclear drills and too old for school shooting drills. Although not any more, now that I’m a teacher!
The Columbine shooting happened when I was a freshman in high school. The following school year, we had an active shooter drill. It was the only one we had, but it made the local news. We also had to evacuate at least once for a bomb threat, which thankfully wound up being false. I know about the run-hide-fight protocol because we have to learn it at my work, a grocery store. As anyone who pays attention to the news know, they have also been another unfortunate target of recent mass shootings. God help us.
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