• SovereignState@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • SovereignState@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          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.

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • juchenecromancer@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • juchenecromancer@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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”.

    • 133arc585English
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • relay@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’m curious how effective those bullet blankets are. They seem to small to fully protect the child.

    • 133arc585English
      2·
      1 year ago

      It seems like a “joke” (a sick one, but one not meant to be taken 100% literally) image. There is absolutely no way anyone would truly think that is useful. Even if it was super thick and effective, it doesn’t even cover a whole child. It can also just be kicked aside. There’s no way this isn’t meant as an exaggerated image just meant to bring attention to a real situation.

        • 133arc585English
          7·
          1 year ago

          Wow. What a horrific grift. If they had built 100% effective devices, it’d still be a grift. But this is just…disgusting honestly. They’re stealing money from already underfunded school systems, and giving a false sense of security where there appears to be absolutely none. These don’t look effective in the least, against anything really. I guess they plan on the shooter being someone who walks on the ceiling, because the only angle these things look to have any chance to protect someone from is from directly overhead.

      • ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        The idea would probably be to protect them from the shooter shooting through walls/ricochet bullets

        • 133arc585English
          1·
          1 year ago

          They’re in the hallway. The shooter isn’t going to be shooting through a wall into the hallway from a classroom; to get to the classroom they would have had to pass through the hallway first, so this shitty blanket would have had to serve as protection then.

          I genuinely can’t see how this is of any use.