When you think about it the worst grooming of children going on in the USA

[malaise]

Must be school massacre drills.
Who the fuck terrorizes kids in that way?
Ban the effin assault rifles.

[onecaliberal]

1. It terrorizes more than the kids.

It’s frightening to those who would step in between the gunman and students.

[usonian]

2. Texas gun store put this up and took it down (but the internet never forgets)

definition of "grooming?"

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Bang! You're Dead"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508131/

Rick Sheffield visits his brother and sister-in-law after a lengthy absence living in Africa. His nephew Jackie unpacks his suitcase and finds a revolver. Jackie and his friends are always playing with their toy guns and Jackie goes around town, pointing the gun and pulling the trigger, oblivious to the fact that there is a live round in the chamber. When his parents and uncle realize he has the gun, they set off on a frantic search but not before he fires at someone.

[malaise]

3. Frightening indeed

And the guns are now all over our hemisphere

[Bones1]

6. Gross

[Bones1]

4. Ban War Weapons

[Evolve Dammit]

5. Amen Malaise

[H2O Man]

7. Recommended.

I remember the "civil defense" drills from my childhood experiencing in school. While the town was rural, there was a defense contractor there. The village the plant was in was called "the village we can't do without" in a big article in the Saturday Evening Post, in terms of winning WW2. So when I was in school, we learned the village was among the top eight targets if the Soviet Union attacked.

Part of the school did have a bomb shelter. But it couldn't have held all the students. As an adult, I've wondered if it was for children, or perhaps industry leaders and families that were more equal than the rest of us. Obviously, that wasn't a positive experience for anyone in the school, especially students.

I guess the difference was we knew our "enemy" was foreign. And dangerous -- they had a different flag than us, and wore funny hats I thought perfect targets in a snowball fight. Today's children and youth have to be worried about people from their own community, or who have traveled with a specific soft target in mind. Maybe someone in their school. And in my opinion, that is worse than what I experienced.

[malaise]

9. Your last paragraph is the really scary part

And what makes it worse is that they can be shot anywhere not just in school.

[IronLionZion]

8. School shooters would have also taken the drills

if they went to school in the last few years, they would know their own school's security measures

[bdamomma]

10. they are grooming kids

to have depression and anxiety issues for the rest of their lives the GOP are fueling this sickness of hate.

All for their donors and their power.