When I Was In School, We Had Fire Drills, Not Shooting Drills. [View all]

[Rozlee]

I was reading about the school shooting in New Mexico; about how the school acted quickly and efficiently to go into lockdown when it was announced that there was a shooter in the school. It was said that the faculty and students had practiced and drilled for such contingencies and that it was a requirement in most school districts now.

What has this country come to? I remember going to public school and having fire drills. We never conceived of such a thing as school shootings. How did such a thing as a gun culture ever evolve in our country? Gun violence in the modern population used to be something you'd never see outside of the early 20th century gangsters, the Mafia and gang violence. Now, we've got a casual culture of killings and killing sprees by individuals and no major mobilization is being done to address it. Politicians and the public railed and rallied against criminals like Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde, the Mafia and the Crips and Bloods. The slaughter of our children in a place where they used to be safe is not given any more consideration than practice and drilling like you'd do for a fire.