Every year teachers all over the US rehearse with their classes what they must do if someone decides to shoot up the school.
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Every year teachers all over the US rehearse with their classes what they must do if someone decides to shoot up the school. The whole country has to bend around to accommodate the profits of arms dealers and “freedom feelings” a small number of people ascribe to having no effective tracking and licensing of deadly weapons.
When checking, none of them are in “sight lines” of the windows or doors? I have never felt less free.
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Every year teachers all over the US rehearse with their classes what they must do if someone decides to shoot up the school. The whole country has to bend around to accommodate the profits of arms dealers and “freedom feelings” a small number of people ascribe to having no effective tracking and licensing of deadly weapons.
When checking, none of them are in “sight lines” of the windows or doors? I have never felt less free.
When I was a child we had fire drills and tornado drills. (Ohio)
There is a whole generation for whom “active shooter drills” are just as ordinary.
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Every year teachers all over the US rehearse with their classes what they must do if someone decides to shoot up the school. The whole country has to bend around to accommodate the profits of arms dealers and “freedom feelings” a small number of people ascribe to having no effective tracking and licensing of deadly weapons.
When checking, none of them are in “sight lines” of the windows or doors? I have never felt less free.
@futurebird I'm just barely old enough to remember nuclear drills, (and perhaps only because I happened to live in an area where they stayed around longer than in some places - it seems in many parts of the usa the drills ended long before the cold war did, or otherwise stopped and started for reasons I don't know. )
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Every year teachers all over the US rehearse with their classes what they must do if someone decides to shoot up the school. The whole country has to bend around to accommodate the profits of arms dealers and “freedom feelings” a small number of people ascribe to having no effective tracking and licensing of deadly weapons.
When checking, none of them are in “sight lines” of the windows or doors? I have never felt less free.
@futurebird My cousin’s boy had all the advice about where to sit in a university lecture theatre in case of a shooting, which he followed—and still got shot at NIU. (He survived.) So ridiculous that people have to live with that much fear, especially kids.
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@futurebird My cousin’s boy had all the advice about where to sit in a university lecture theatre in case of a shooting, which he followed—and still got shot at NIU. (He survived.) So ridiculous that people have to live with that much fear, especially kids.
That's so scary. I'm glad that he made it and horrified he has to live with that experience. When schools first started doing these kinds of drills I thought it was maybe overreacting. But, the number of shootings kept going up and quickly I had to admit that it would be very irresponsible to be unprepared. We have to teach even the youngest children what to do.
This is something that touches everyone, it's changed the way that everyone lives. For what?
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Every year teachers all over the US rehearse with their classes what they must do if someone decides to shoot up the school. The whole country has to bend around to accommodate the profits of arms dealers and “freedom feelings” a small number of people ascribe to having no effective tracking and licensing of deadly weapons.
When checking, none of them are in “sight lines” of the windows or doors? I have never felt less free.
As a teacher you probably have a different perspective on it but my understanding is that NYC has not had any of the "some guy brings guns and starts shooting random classmates for notoriety" incidents.
Instead, anything I see that's labeled as a school shooting in the city is gang violence related which is also tragic but has different root causes and fixes than the other kind.
Am I right in that or missing some info?
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As a teacher you probably have a different perspective on it but my understanding is that NYC has not had any of the "some guy brings guns and starts shooting random classmates for notoriety" incidents.
Instead, anything I see that's labeled as a school shooting in the city is gang violence related which is also tragic but has different root causes and fixes than the other kind.
Am I right in that or missing some info?
This has been correct so far. To some degree the extreme saturation of surveillance in NYC may make it a less appealing target for anyone who thinks a little about doing such a crime. And it's not easy for people who live in the city to buy guns from a store. Doing it legally remains very hard, but this can be avoided by just going over the border to another state and the NRA has been chipping away at our few remaining gun regulations.
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This has been correct so far. To some degree the extreme saturation of surveillance in NYC may make it a less appealing target for anyone who thinks a little about doing such a crime. And it's not easy for people who live in the city to buy guns from a store. Doing it legally remains very hard, but this can be avoided by just going over the border to another state and the NRA has been chipping away at our few remaining gun regulations.
Most crimes committed with guns involve illegally obtained guns from out of state.
Most young men do not have a car, few can drive, the fact that you can't just buy a gun at Walmart in NYC is a good thing! To buy a gun you need to file with your local police department and take a class. It's expensive and time consuming.
People desperate for a gun will obtain them from the black market and this is risky and there are heavy legal penalties.
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Most crimes committed with guns involve illegally obtained guns from out of state.
Most young men do not have a car, few can drive, the fact that you can't just buy a gun at Walmart in NYC is a good thing! To buy a gun you need to file with your local police department and take a class. It's expensive and time consuming.
People desperate for a gun will obtain them from the black market and this is risky and there are heavy legal penalties.
If the whole country had gun laws like NYC a large portion of murders would simply not happen. People might try to use a knife, or act out in other ways but fewer people would be dead. The people who really want to own a gun could still own them and the illegal trade would dry up.
It might even be fine to have hunting guns sold more casually in rural areas. I don't think anyone but those who benefit from trafficking guns into cities would be bothered.
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If the whole country had gun laws like NYC a large portion of murders would simply not happen. People might try to use a knife, or act out in other ways but fewer people would be dead. The people who really want to own a gun could still own them and the illegal trade would dry up.
It might even be fine to have hunting guns sold more casually in rural areas. I don't think anyone but those who benefit from trafficking guns into cities would be bothered.
And make no mistake that's part of what this is about. Trafficking guns and making a lot of money on it along with an indifference to the safety of children.
