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[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 66 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Jesus Christ... do kids really do regular active shooter drills at school now? This country is beyond fucked.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In America they've been doing it since I was in middle school. And for good reason, too.

I almost made it out of high school without needing to utilize what we were taught in those drills, but then towards the end of my senior year some jackass kid decided to bring a gun to class and started shooting teachers and students. America is wild.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

We do fire drills once or twice a year where I live (not the US). I've been around for forty years and I've met only two people with a firearm licence (both for shooting sport-related reasons). The European mind can understand the historical reasons beyond the 2nd Amendment, but not the fetishization of firearms.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The 2nd itself isn’t even the problem, it’s that it isn’t in any actuality followed. It explicitly says “well regulated militia”. I’m an armed leftist but nothing about US firearms is well regulated

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In this context "well regulated" means like a smoothly-running clock, with the implication being that militia members will need weapons for training and practice.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

As a lefty, part of me wishes we learned into the well regulated militia part and viewed firearms as a part of community defense. But, also as a lefty, there's much more important things we could do to improve community resiliency before we finally get to firearms training.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In the context and time it was written, this means something closer to "armed citizenry trained to handle their weapons and how to respond to a threat" and not "restricting weapons to the national guard" or "restricting weapons based on the number of total rounds they can hold" or something like that.

I suspect most of the pro-gun folks wouldn't be that angry at the idea of requiring range time and local emergency drills as opposed to the usual attempts to restrict 2A.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

In the context of when it was written, the authors didn't believe having a standing army was a good idea, machine guns either didn't exist or would melt after any sustained use, and artillery was meant to either break walls or make infantry nervous that they might end up being one of the few hit.

The ship has sailed on all of those and many other assumptions people had in those days, which makes me think that maybe it's time for a new constitution. And maybe codify some of the gentlemen's agreement stuff and harden the system against those who just want to ruin it from within because it's more profitable for some if governments don't help people meet their needs.

[–] Ellecram@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I am a 66 year old American. I have no guns. The only time I have seen or operated one was when I was in the Navy in the early 1980s. I have seen the damage that guns can do several times in the 30 years I have been working as a child protective service caseworker/supervisor.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I’m nearly 30 and did them in elementary school

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm 43, and we didn't have them at all by the time I graduated in '96

[–] candybrie@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Columbine was in '99, so that checks out. I think schools started doing them sometime after that tragedy.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which was kinda weird to me. Bowling Green happened a couple years earlier, and there had been school shootings in this country ever since the mid to late 1800s. Seemed like an overreaction to me.

[–] yoyolll@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I’m in my 30s and we had them all throughout grade school.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I graduated in 2002. Based on the other responses, it seems like they started doing them shortly after that.

[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

This is America

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 months ago

I'm pretty sure active shooter drills have been ongoing for over a decade at some schools at this point. There was a whole thing a few years ago about schools "putting litter boxes in classrooms for kids that identify as cats" that conservatives were freaking out about where it turned out that the schools had cat litter in classroom survival kits. They sell Kevlar backpacks for kids.

This country has been screwed for decades now.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 8 points 11 months ago

Yes, yes they do.

[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 1 points 10 months ago

Likely monthly or every two-three months, if my memory serves and they haven't increased the rates any. I think really after Sandy Hook they doubled in intensity, I remember doing active shooter drills with regularity after that moment.

[–] computerscientistII@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

I'm teaching Highschool in Germany. We do fire drills once a year and involuntarily every time something goes wrong in chemistry class. We also do what we call amok drills every other year.