You know what's sad?

[gopiscrap]

when I was a kid I never once heard the term "lockdown". With in the past 7 days I have heard it 5 times. We have got to do something about our gundamentalists and gun fetish culture!

[hollysmom]

1. I think it onl;y existed in prison lingo when I was a child

What do I know, I was one of the "duck and Cover" kids.

[gopiscrap]

2. but that was for earthquakes

I don't ever remember it for shooting incidents

[liberal_at_heart]

3. it was also for the possibility of nuclear war.

[gopiscrap]

4. oh yeah I remember that part

[gopiscrap]

5. when I was in school in West Germany

we also did it in case the Russians or East Germans decided to invade

[Art_from_Ark]

7. At my school, duck-and-cover had morphed into tornado drills

I don't think we ever had to practice ducking under our desks for the possibility of nuclear war-- although just before summer vacation ended one year, there was a major nuclear missile accident about 150 miles away

[newfie11]

14. Yes it was

Like it would have helped haha

[Mojorabbit]

6. Why are so many people snapping the past six months?

I am really wondering what the catalyst is.

[gopiscrap]

9. some of it is the callousness in which

republican leaders treat the poor and those who have no voice...more it is because of the failure of the repuke party to fund mental health care and outreach!

[alittlelark]

11. Poverty breeds crime

[Dreamer Tatum]

8. +1 nt

[Deep13]

10. also, Dumbo.

but, you are right.

[Phlem]

12. It was like this in the Philippines when Marcus ruled.

We came here to get away from that.



-p

[ck4829]

13. I remember hearing of a lockdown once when my sister was in school

Now it has to be like "Another lockdown, you all know the drill" at this point.