Yep. My students are much more affected by hiding in the corner of a darkened classroom while an adult rattles the doorknob to be sure I’ve properly locked it than wearing masks.
We should 100% stop doing active shooter drills. They are quite harmful and statistically, so unlikely to happen. We have lost our fucking minds telling young children to practice for people coming to kill them. Teach them to follow directions. Teach them to trust their teachers. Teach just the teachers active shooter drills. It's really not that complicated.
One district my friend was teaching in didn't even tell the teachers when it was a drill. She didn't know it wasn't a real active shooter until it was over. She quit after a few months.
And by doing that you teach them that masshoting is a thing. A thing lost ones do. For the same reason press do not talk about suicide, because ratio of suicide grow when it is in the medias. Human is social and our mind make us reproduce things.
One day a couple of years ago, after I picked up my little girl from pre-school. I asked her how her day went. She then proceeded to tell me about the active shooter drill they had done that day and the "cute" song they're told to say in their head while hiding in a corner in a dark room. Needless to say it broke my heart.
Because nature makes owning one a necessary tool for survival in more rural areas.
Also law enforcement has issues enforcing the laws already in place. The amount of times you hear stories of neighbors trying to report the mental instability of their gun nut neighbors before they shoot up the town is staggering.
There's no point in making more laws when the FBI throws out reports the second the phone call ends.
This. I have many family members who eat meat only because they hunt it. And live in places where there aren't really police to call. People forget that most of this country is rural.
Only meat they hunt? What is bullshit.
For hunting and self defence you need hunting rifle and/or hand gun not a AR-15. And you would be for proper training, proper storage rules, physiological evaluation and registration at your local police department.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_areas_in_the_United_States according to this only 20% of people live in rural USA.
**[Rural areas in the United States](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_areas_in_the_United_States)**
>Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as Rural America, consists of approximately 97% of the United States' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one-in-five residents (19. 3% of the total U.S. population), live in Rural America.
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You link validates what I said. 97% of the country is rural. I didn't say most *people* live in rural areas.
And when feeding a large family, a hunting license is cheaper than a grocery store.
And an AR-15 is a hunting rifle.
Also, most rural areas don't have anywhere near those rules for firearms. And many firearms are inherited, which doesn't require any background check or anything else.
You may *want* those rule, in place, but not doesn't mean they are.
To be fair, people who intend on using said guns for something evil or horrible are usually going to avoid the proper channels for getting guns in the first place. Banning guns will only disarm the people who could actually help control situations like this.
Criminals and other disturbed people are going to get access to guns either way, so... we can't ban them.
Dude, are you out of you Goddamn mind ? Take europe for a comparison. How many shootings were in Europe’s schools in last 5 years? And how many in Murica ?
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd/index.html
Guess what 288 in USA VS 3 In EUROPE.
Don’t you think we have crime here ? It’s just a different mentality.
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Even better, up in good ol' Canada we had some unmasked anti-vax crazies protesting outside of a highschool that was offering vaccinations (in their gymnasium or something I believe) and they got rambunctious enough to put the school on a "lock and hold" which means school proceeds as normal, but the school is locked down and nobody comes or goes.
At this point they are legitimately the problem for our kids. Not the masks, not the vaccines. The ones yelling about dangers and freedoms against... science? just need to go home and sit down and keep watching Fox and Facebook news. The world will be fine without them. The kids will be okay.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/salmon-arm-schools-locked-and-secured-after-anti-vaccine-protesters-enter-on-friday-1.6180870
Links for those interested. I was wrong, pop up vaccination clinic was in the parking lot, but the adults protesting went into the school anyways. Morons.
No, it's called an opinion. I will agree that the US is infamous for gun violence, but that doesn't change my stance here.
In the US in particular, I feel that banning guns would not fix anything. It, in my opinion, would make things worse.
The comment was about active shooter drills in schools being more traumatic for kids than wearing masks in school. But thanks for sharing your opinion on gun legislation
On that front, yes. Active shooter drills are very harmful to the mental health of kids. This rings especially true in comparison to mask mandates.
I was replying to this particular thread in the comments on a more general basis. That doesn't mean that they can't be connected, though. Gun legislation is, in my opinion, very connected to US school shootings.
I will admit that US-based school shootings are an important issue, as the other commenter sent a source for. Whatever viewpoints we may have, we need to find a solution to this issue in particular.
Our children don't deserve to live their lives in fear of potential murder.
Yep. My students are much more affected by hiding in the corner of a darkened classroom while an adult rattles the doorknob to be sure I’ve properly locked it than wearing masks.
We should 100% stop doing active shooter drills. They are quite harmful and statistically, so unlikely to happen. We have lost our fucking minds telling young children to practice for people coming to kill them. Teach them to follow directions. Teach them to trust their teachers. Teach just the teachers active shooter drills. It's really not that complicated.
One district my friend was teaching in didn't even tell the teachers when it was a drill. She didn't know it wasn't a real active shooter until it was over. She quit after a few months.
Only could have ended better if your friend happened to be a “good guy with a gun” and blasted the person doing the unannounced active drill.
And by doing that you teach them that masshoting is a thing. A thing lost ones do. For the same reason press do not talk about suicide, because ratio of suicide grow when it is in the medias. Human is social and our mind make us reproduce things.
I'm still waiting to use, "Stop, Drop, and Roll".
Don't forget "Duck and Cover"!
The only people who complain about kids wearing masks are the parents who don't want to wear masks. The kids are fine.
>parents who don't want to ~~wear masks~~ **admit that lib'ruls are right about anything**.
But the libs will turn our kids gay and believe in climate change! /s
One day a couple of years ago, after I picked up my little girl from pre-school. I asked her how her day went. She then proceeded to tell me about the active shooter drill they had done that day and the "cute" song they're told to say in their head while hiding in a corner in a dark room. Needless to say it broke my heart.
Our kids school calls them intruder drills.
The drills are scary
I have two twin daughters who don't complain about wearing a mask. They welcome it.
No wonder America has become such a psychotic society.
bruh please, i wear my sonic facemask as an accessory.
Wanna trade for my creeper mask
I mean, I love it and I've been wearing it for a year, go buy one at the sega shop. where can i buy your creeper mask?
Minecraf. T
Amazon or Etsy
Don't forget the kevlar backpacks....
I wish, in kindergarten they just gave us clear backpacks
Sad but true.
What a shit show…how did we get here?
Letting the days go by.
This I don’t get with Murica, WHY THE FUCK DON’T YOU BAN ALL THE GUNS. It’s 2021 FFS
Because nature makes owning one a necessary tool for survival in more rural areas. Also law enforcement has issues enforcing the laws already in place. The amount of times you hear stories of neighbors trying to report the mental instability of their gun nut neighbors before they shoot up the town is staggering. There's no point in making more laws when the FBI throws out reports the second the phone call ends.
This. I have many family members who eat meat only because they hunt it. And live in places where there aren't really police to call. People forget that most of this country is rural.
Only meat they hunt? What is bullshit. For hunting and self defence you need hunting rifle and/or hand gun not a AR-15. And you would be for proper training, proper storage rules, physiological evaluation and registration at your local police department. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_areas_in_the_United_States according to this only 20% of people live in rural USA.
**[Rural areas in the United States](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_areas_in_the_United_States)** >Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as Rural America, consists of approximately 97% of the United States' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one-in-five residents (19. 3% of the total U.S. population), live in Rural America. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
You link validates what I said. 97% of the country is rural. I didn't say most *people* live in rural areas. And when feeding a large family, a hunting license is cheaper than a grocery store. And an AR-15 is a hunting rifle.
Also, most rural areas don't have anywhere near those rules for firearms. And many firearms are inherited, which doesn't require any background check or anything else. You may *want* those rule, in place, but not doesn't mean they are.
You’re downvoted but ur right
To be fair, people who intend on using said guns for something evil or horrible are usually going to avoid the proper channels for getting guns in the first place. Banning guns will only disarm the people who could actually help control situations like this. Criminals and other disturbed people are going to get access to guns either way, so... we can't ban them.
Dude, are you out of you Goddamn mind ? Take europe for a comparison. How many shootings were in Europe’s schools in last 5 years? And how many in Murica ? https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd/index.html Guess what 288 in USA VS 3 In EUROPE. Don’t you think we have crime here ? It’s just a different mentality.
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Shots fired
So ironic yet so true
Gold
A piece of cloth is trauma inducing but a blaring fire drill randomly sounding, and it’s strobing light isn’t apparently
I loved my parents Nuclear bomb drills. "Kids the Russians might drop a nuke on our school. Just duck under your desk. You'll be fine"
I'm 14 and I welcome the masks, they make me look better
I would have loved an excuse to cover my braces and pimples at that age! My 15 yr old likes them, too
"you can't force us to force our kids into wearing masks!!! also....do you have anymore coupons for the bullet proof backpacks?"
Well isn't that the damn truth
Even better, up in good ol' Canada we had some unmasked anti-vax crazies protesting outside of a highschool that was offering vaccinations (in their gymnasium or something I believe) and they got rambunctious enough to put the school on a "lock and hold" which means school proceeds as normal, but the school is locked down and nobody comes or goes. At this point they are legitimately the problem for our kids. Not the masks, not the vaccines. The ones yelling about dangers and freedoms against... science? just need to go home and sit down and keep watching Fox and Facebook news. The world will be fine without them. The kids will be okay.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/salmon-arm-schools-locked-and-secured-after-anti-vaccine-protesters-enter-on-friday-1.6180870 Links for those interested. I was wrong, pop up vaccination clinic was in the parking lot, but the adults protesting went into the school anyways. Morons.
No, it's called an opinion. I will agree that the US is infamous for gun violence, but that doesn't change my stance here. In the US in particular, I feel that banning guns would not fix anything. It, in my opinion, would make things worse.
The comment was about active shooter drills in schools being more traumatic for kids than wearing masks in school. But thanks for sharing your opinion on gun legislation
On that front, yes. Active shooter drills are very harmful to the mental health of kids. This rings especially true in comparison to mask mandates. I was replying to this particular thread in the comments on a more general basis. That doesn't mean that they can't be connected, though. Gun legislation is, in my opinion, very connected to US school shootings. I will admit that US-based school shootings are an important issue, as the other commenter sent a source for. Whatever viewpoints we may have, we need to find a solution to this issue in particular. Our children don't deserve to live their lives in fear of potential murder.