Mother breaks down after seeing 3-year-old daughter practicing lockdown drill

[davidthegnome]

9. Beyond sad.

I don't really have the words to express my sadness and shame that it has gotten so ugly in this Country that even children are practicing lockdown drills.

A friend of mine, who teaches in Mass.. has told me stories about this sniper she knows, a man who is apparently offering to arm Teachers, legally or otherwise, to prevent school shootings. Most schools don't really have the level of security they would need for prevention. Apparently there is some kind of really desperate "worst case scenario" plan, that looks to me a bit like... "last stand". Basically, if someone went into the school intent on shooting many children and teachers - they could do it, with very, very little resistance.

She refused the gun, because she doesn't know to use one anyway, doesn't want to go to jail - and fears what would happen if one of the kids in her classroom (special education) got a-hold of it. She was tempted all the same though. I think I might have been too, if I was wondering what the hell I would do in a really bad neighborhood, at a desperately underfunded school... if there was an active shooter.

I don't really know what the right solution is. Gun control could help, maybe even help a lot... but there are just so damned many guns in this Country. Hell, I don't know. It's a sad damn time to be an American.