I’d argue something stronger — that it normalizes the idea of homicide, that there’s a good chance that someone will show up one day & try to kill you. It might be a fellow student, someone you see every day. This is pure paranoia priming.
Do active shooter drills in schools (with children present, but aware of the drill) seem more likely to have a net positive or net negative impact, all things considered?
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No they don't.
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I wonder how the same people would rate the net benefits of fire drills. Also, This American Life #659 has a crazy story on this: Teachers at Stoneman Douglas had *unannounced* active shooter drills and some teachers thought the real one was just a drill.
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Those drills can be kinda fucked up. An instructor would fire off blanks in the hallway. One entered a teacher’s room, telling her she’d be dead (because she didn’t lock her door like she was supposed to). She thought he was a real gunman and she was about to get shot.
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Really interested to hear the arguments against doing drills? Seems like a “hope for the best, prepare for the worst” situation. Chances of surviving a shooting would go up a lot if you knew exactly what to do, where to go, etc.
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The chances of an individual student ever being involved in a situation like this is tiny. Have to weigh that against the psychological cost of instilling irrational fear.
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I think it probably varies a lot by age. BIG NEGATIVE for younger kids. Probably not that big a deal by the time high school rolls around (probably instill even more cynicism. exercise to the reader if that is a plus or minus).
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I grew up in a gun culture. Hunted regularly. Lived in a home with over 50 guns stored in a gun case. That any child has to endure an “active shooter drill” angers/saddens/stuns me. Who hunts children? W.....T......F
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It depends on whether if the drill is reality based and effective.
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