Your experience of Active Shooter Drills

[Deleted member 206441]

This could be political... but it doesn't have to be... or i hope it won't be...

But i won't hold me breath...

Active Shooter Drills is something I can no way know... what it... feels like to have...

It kinda make me sad that it exists... but i guess it just something that exists...

So.... I kind of have questions.

Did you have them when you were at school? How old were you when you had it? were you really young?

What was first time like?

How did it make you feel?

Do people talk about it afterwards?

Is it a causal thing?

Do you get used to it?

If you didnt experience it yourself (coz you are old) do you know younger people that had it? How did they feel about it?

 

[Corty]

I live in a country where the most dangerous part of school was hitting someone in the eye with a chalk catapult.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

When I was in high school, 2003-2007, drills were a pretty casual thing. There was one time when we had a threat that wasn't a drill and we went into lockdown for an hour or three. We were all in the dark about the specifics of the threat, and I think it turned out to be not a super serious threat after all, like the suspicious person wasn't even armed. I was in a classroom on the second floor, so I wasn't worried much about my own safety. There were no sounds. I think I pretty much just took a nap under a lab table.

Things are scarier these days, though.

 

[Alski]

I live in a country where that isnt a problem, so it doesnt exsist.

 

[Anonjohn20]

This could be political... but it doesn't have to be... or i hope it won't be...

But i won't hold me breath...

Active Shooter Drills is something I can no way know... what it... feels like to have...

It kinda make me sad that it exists... but i guess it just something that exists...

So.... I kind of have questions.

Did you have them when you were at school? How old were you when you had it? were you really young?

What was first time like?

How did it make you feel?

Do people talk about it afterwards?

Is it a causal thing?

Do you get used to it?

If you didnt experience it yourself (coz you are old) do you know younger people that had it? How did they feel about it?

This is an extremely political topic so I'm not sure how long it'll last.

In the past, before the surge of rampant violence in our country, our schools used to have gun clubs where middle schoolers and high schoolers were taught marksmanship. Back then, school shootings were not a problem.

Currently school shootings are becoming more common; as the media continues to put a spotlight on those vile people, more miscreants who want their 15 minutes of fame are tempted to do such a thing.

Now onto the drills: They have been proven to be wholly ineffective at stopping any event or saving anyone. The only reason they are done is because school administrators (most lean towards a specific party that I will not mention) want to scare and unnerve students into disliking firearms so that when they grow up and gain the right to participate in elections, they'll vote for the party that is in favor of gun control, gun restrictions, gun bans, etc. These drills won't save anyone in the event of an active shooter, but they'll scare students into voting for the party that is against guns.

Note: Have you noticed that the party that is supposedly against guns is opposing legislation to ban people who have mental health disorders from getting guns? Isn't that wild? It's like they want things to get worse so they can have an easier time getting people to vote for them.

 

[Lacedaemon]

We only ever had lockdown drills when I went to school. No actual run-throughs of a police response during the drill. At most, the police would come along and manually unlock each door. It was held once a year. We thankfully never had a real lockdown when I went. We did have a false alarm when someone entered the code for a lockdown into the phone system when they meant to do a lockout instead, which were more common. Lockouts were when all students outside had to come in, no one was to be let out or let in, and activities were to continue as normal inside the building, and were usually done for major police activity or some other major incident like a really bad fire or car accident near the school rather than in the school.

I've also done actual active shooter training as a firefighter/EMT and (when I was younger) a police explorer where they really do a full run-through with a "shooter" and a full police/ambulance response. They were never done when school was in session, and any pretend "victims" were volunteers from the community, often theater kids. I know other states will do it when school is in session, which is wild to me and seems excessive. Realistically, as a first responder, doing basic lockdown drills are more than sufficient for the general public.

 

[AnonUnlimited]

It's highly political because people lack understanding about this topic.
Usually when something it's political, it's because at least one side is stupid.

As for these drills, they're also stupid.
Why?
Because they tell us to hide and almost never tell us to fight back.

I did this drill in a government building where they tell us to fight back. The drills at school are stupid because they don't teach you the limitations of a gun especially in the hands of a mentally deranged individual.

 

[3guanoff]

We had drills - military drills. Schooling included basic military training and we were taught how to shoot. If you went to school in an urban area, your school likely offered a shooting club. Boys here usually learned hunting from their fathers or uncles. My father was a lousy shot, so I learned from his cousin.

I do not think anyone ever shot up a school, but a few children shot themselves. A boy from a different village accidentally shot his sister with his father's rifle. Things like that happened.
So did children getting lost, drowning in rivers, dying from a cold, and other tragedies that have become rare here now.

EDIT: We also sometimes practised against enemy forces invading the school, so I suppose that's a bit similar to a shooter drill.

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

School shootings are a recent issue, 50 years ago, nonexistent. (Also less gun restrictions back then, too.)

Anyway, graduated HS in 2013, shooter drills (lockdown drill) were a normal drill that now reminds me that they used to do duck and cover drills in case of nuclear war.
I suppose it's better than having absolutely no plan of action, but still...

Would prefer if there were armed police on campus, way more useful.

 

[Lacedaemon]

It's highly political because people lack understanding about this topic.
Usually when something it's political, it's because at least one side is stupid.

As for these drills, they're also stupid.
Why?
Because they tell us to hide and almost never tell us to fight back.

I did this drill in a government building where they tell us to fight back. The drills at school are stupid because they don't teach you the limitations of a gun especially in the hands of a mentally deranged individual.

In recent years, they've changed the school ones in a lot of places from "just hide and pray they'll go away" to "Run, Hide, Fight" like it should be, especially in middle and high schools where the kids are bigger and more likely to put up a fight if, God forbid, it came down to it.

 

[AnonUnlimited]

School shootings are a recent issue.
The guns haven't changed, people have.
Unfortunately, I think the mass media and constant news cycle along with social engineering has made it worse.

While we have many more resources on healing trauma than ever before, we also have many more avenues for people to crash and burn than any other time in history.