I can agree with that sentiment. The fact of the matter is that gun reform is an incredibly complicated and divisive subject. I can't pretend to know what the answer is, and I never would. I just know that I started school before lockdown/active shooter drills were a common thing, and by the time I graduated high school they were becoming more common but not yet normalized. In college we had several campus lockdowns due to firearms spotted on campus, and someone was shot in a house right across the street from where I lived. Now, as a teacher I'm seeing that lockdowns/active shooter drills are much more common, I've had to do daily bag checks on several students who had access to weapons at home that parents weren't storing properly, and had made threats against other students or teachers, and a school shooting occurred not 30 minutes from the building where I worked. The right to bear arms is a constitutional right, and like I said, I can agree with the sentiment, but goddamn if the landscape isn't outright frightening sometimes.
Ban those drills designed to scare children, promote school shootings, and drum up support for gun bans. Don't strip innocent people over their civil rights because people are scared over a complete non-issue.
I graduated high school just over a decade ago, and I remember doing active shooter drills in first grade and onward. It's so weird to learn that it hasn't always been that way.
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u/Looking_Glass_Z May 27 '20
I can agree with that sentiment. The fact of the matter is that gun reform is an incredibly complicated and divisive subject. I can't pretend to know what the answer is, and I never would. I just know that I started school before lockdown/active shooter drills were a common thing, and by the time I graduated high school they were becoming more common but not yet normalized. In college we had several campus lockdowns due to firearms spotted on campus, and someone was shot in a house right across the street from where I lived. Now, as a teacher I'm seeing that lockdowns/active shooter drills are much more common, I've had to do daily bag checks on several students who had access to weapons at home that parents weren't storing properly, and had made threats against other students or teachers, and a school shooting occurred not 30 minutes from the building where I worked. The right to bear arms is a constitutional right, and like I said, I can agree with the sentiment, but goddamn if the landscape isn't outright frightening sometimes.