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This is America: 9 out of 10 public schools now hold mass shooting drills for students

Read this and weep – and then get busy – please: How “active shooter” drills became normal for a generation of American schoolchildren. “…Since Columbine, 32 states have passed laws requiring schools to conduct lockdown drills to keep students safe from intruders. Some states went even further after 20 children died in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012. Now, six states require specific “active shooter” drills each year. That means the training must be specifically tailored to respond to an armed gunman out to kill. There is no consensus on what these drills should look like, but several states, including Missouri, require shooting simulations with police officers…”

See also – Mass Shootings in America Are Spreading Like a Disease and 4 Laws That Could Stem the Rising Threat of Mass Shootings and 290 School Shootings In America Since 2013.

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