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Alert
Lockdown and prepare to counter and/or evacuate
Inform
Counter attack. Throw crap. Barricade the door.
Evacuate. Escape.
I like this. Even today when I get on a plane I look for things to throw, where someone could stick their leg out and trip a terrorist, exits, etc. counter attack stuff.
Yeah, but … In order to stop a determined well armed bad guy, it may be necessary to sacrifice a few innocent bystanders, eh … ???
*shrug*
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Originally Posted by Teilhard
Should have a machine gun emplacement outdoors on every corner of the school building, and one at each end of every hallway …oh, and in the cafeteria and library ...
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Originally Posted by Teilhard
One of the things we did as a nation -- as a society -- is we decided to stop terrorizing ourselves (and in particular, our children) with the threat of nuclear annihilation … ("Mutual Assured Destruction," i.e., "MAD" … !!!)
So we started to take measures, not least, including global agreed responsible reductions in the numbers of "nukes" …
Hey … !!! Maybe we could start to begin the first responsible initial steps in reducing the too easy too ready access to guns and ammo that make these massacres so … thinkable … ???
Yes. Irrational people pumped into a frenzy over media hype and political sensationalism about how their kids are going to be abducted and killed, or shot in their classroom. It is a shame they don't recognize and appreciate that we live in a time of great safety where we don't have to concern ourselves with the real risks of prior generations, we have to magnify small mole hill into mountains and create phantoms to keep us on edge.
number of children currently 4-18 years old in the US = about 70,000,000. Number killed in the past 20 years in high school and grade school mass shootings = about 85 total , or 4.1/year. 4.1/70,000,000 = 1 chance in 17,000,000/year of dying in a mass shooting. Does it really make sense to have kids practice evacuation drills in the even of mass shootings? Is it really going to help?
One of the things we did as a nation -- as a society -- is we decided to stop terrorizing ourselves (and in particular, our children) with the threat of nuclear annihilation … ("Mutual Assured Destruction," i.e., "MAD" … !!!)
So we started to take measures, not least, including global agreed responsible reductions in the numbers of "nukes" …
Hey … !!! Maybe we could start to begin the first responsible initial steps in reducing the too easy too ready access to guns and ammo that make these massacres so … thinkable … ???
Naaaah ...
Yup....Naaah.
P.S. If you don't want a gun, don't get one. The rest of us, who realize that the threat of violence from criminals presents itself, not in schools but in our own homes, will continue to choose to own one (or more ) for protection.
I worked in public schools from 2000-2005, and we had lock-down drills then, too. All classes had to do it, including the 3 preschool classes, one of them Preschool Disabled. Imagine having to make a class of mostly non-verbal 3 year olds, many Autistic, sit quietly in the dark under a table for 20 minutes...not fun, but necessary in case anything ever happened.
Global climate change and attendant eco-catastrophes will soon *trim* our numbers and disable most of our most troublesome technologies ...
Can you give me a hint as to when "soon" is?
I've totally mismanaged my IRA and could use some good news.
Thanking you in advance.
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) for protection.
