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      Yes. I went through them rather often when I was young. They were labeled “intruder drills”, but the idea was to try to survive a firearm-induced massacre.

      Lock the doors, stay away from windows. Hold your coughs, your sneezes. Stay out of sight, under something if possible. Crouch like you would during an earthquake.

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          I would also add that everywhere I’ve worked has shooter training as well.

          I’ve worked in many different healthcare facilities, a pharmacy, and now in retail. All have had mandated shooter training.

          Healthy society.

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      Yes, there are yearly trainings on what to do in shooter scenarios, how to use classroom supplies in self defense, how to hide effectively, and how to run to safety.

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      Extremely common. And before that, there were bombing raid drills – get under a table or into a doorway when the siren goes off, because Soviet missiles are inbound. Both my parents remember these. It was complete propaganda, designed to instill fear into people, because there’s no way a simple wooden barrier is going to protect you from a thermonuclear strike – as my very cynical grandpa apparently said, “don’t hide when you hear the siren, just bend down and kiss your ass goodbye.” Unfortunately, school shooting drills serve a much more real and practical purpose.

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      Very common in American schools. Starting from Kindergarten kids learn to blockade the door with desks, hide in a corner of the room which can’t be seen from the window, and take scissors as self-defense tools.

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          Minorities in America are deathly afraid of guns. We usually avoid redneck neighborhoods because there’s a good chance we could get shot just for walking in front of their house or looking “suspicious”.

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      Of course. They’re done several times a year (compared to monthly fire drills in most places), and they include every school age. Sometimes they’ll use the euphemism “lockdown drill” to try to seem less dystopic.