Opinion: US schoolkids master mass shooter drills while leaders again fail to act
The headlines as I write this are dominated by the horror in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 students and two teachers have been killed at school. The week before, the news was of carnage in a supermarket in Buffalo, where 10 people were killed. By the time you read this, there will likely have been still more mass shootings in the United States, and at least one will take place in a school.
During the drill, the principal explained, the teachers would draw the blinds, cover the windows of their classroom doors, and lock the doors from the inside. Kids would be told to sit quietly away from the doors while administrators would walk around, making sure all doors were locked. The whole thing would take about two minutes.
Pacing on the royal-blue carpet of the Congress, he continued: “Why do you spend all this time running for the United States Senate, why do you go through all the hassle of getting this job, of putting yourself in a position of authority, if your answer is that as this slaughter increases, as our kids run for their lives, we do nothing?”
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