Gun grabbers complaining about school drills for active shooters

There really doesn't seem to be any way to appease these people other than for everyone to pull and Australia and just not allow anyone to have guns anymore. What these people don't seem to understand is that when Australia did that they didn't really reduce the amount of violent crime, they just changed the way in which violent crimes were committed. I don't know about you, but I would much rather be shot than beaten to death with baseball bats.

I'll leave that alone for now and instead focus on a recent event that took place in Carolina that the media, of course, is jumping all over and once again, using it as some sort of soapbox to talk more and more about gun control.

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In response to the fact that there have been a few school shootings in the USA, which of course is extremely tragic, some of the school systems have decided to help both police and students be better prepared for this sort of extremely rare situation, just to keep the police and also the students a bit more up to speed about what they could do in order to be better prepared for this.

I do not know the details of what is involved but it involves a lot of playing dead and also the police having a better method of getting the situation under control than what happened recently in Texas where the police, not knowing what to do ended up standing outside the school and doing nothing, which was just horrible.

So in a recent drill some of the students sent messages to their parents about the drill because the students didn't know, perhaps because they were not paying attention, that this drill was just a drill and not a real-world situation. These messages were frantic as you would expect and some of the parents, who were also forewarned about this upcoming drill decided to submit the frantic messages to the media rather than admit that it was their own lack of reading their own emails that resulted in the confusion.

Obviously no one was shot because the police did not have live ammo and a vast majority of the students were very aware of the fact that this was just an exercise and no one was in danger.

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The media of course jumped all over this and excluded key information such as the fact that the drills were announced beforehand and it was only because parents and students didn't pay attention to the announcement that anyone was caught off-guard by this. I suspect that the students DID know it was a drill but in this day of desperate needs for social media attention, they sent the messages anyway so they would have a reason for their Twitter to explode.

Of course now people are calling for the drills to be banned and I just can't understand why they would want that. It's almost as though they want people to be unprepared should a situation arise. There's no reason why a school shooting should happen though because all schools are "gun free zones" anyway :P

School shootings attract a lot of attention despite the fact that they only account for 0.2% of the annual gun deaths in the United States. In an ideal world it would account for 0% of the gun deaths but that is not the world that we live in.

I recall when I was in elementary school that we would have nuclear bombing drills. This was during the Cold War and even though it was exceptionally unlikely to ever happen in real life, none of us complained about it at the time. This is probably because social media didn't exist and there was no one to Tweet it to.

To the people out there complaining about these drills I wonder what it is that they are after? If your desire is to disarm the population then just go ahead and lobby for that but in the meantime and since we all know that the disarming of the population is not going to happen in USA, maybe it wouldn't be too terrible of a thing for the students and staff to be as prepared for this threat as possible even though it is wildly unlikely to ever happen.