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I remember watching this episode<\/a> of Sacha Baron Cohen\u2019s Who Is America<\/em>, and getting a good chuckle out of the clowning on America\u2019s obsession with firearms to the point where we should start arming our children as early as possible.\u00a0 But mostly I always love how no matter how much people in Washington have been aware of Sacha Baron Cohen, known bureaucrats still keep falling into his traps of showing up on his shows and conducting rigged interviews, seemingly somehow oblivious to the fact that they are being made fun of for being, well, white guys.<\/span><\/p>\n The other night I was looking through some of the photos that #2\u2019s pre-K posts to a private Facebook group for the parents, and there was a picture of the class huddled in a corner of the room, head down, knees up, tucked as tightly as they could.\u00a0 All families know that the school does conduct routine fire, safety and lockdown drills, but this was the first time that I\u2019ve actually seen any photo evidence of what was obviously the active shooter lockdown drill, and let me tell you how much it kills my soul to see a bunch of 4-5 year olds having to practice defending their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n In one hand, it\u2019s better to be safe than sorry, and to have a modicum of idea of what to do in the event that such a scenario were to come to fruition, but in the other hand, it\u2019s depressing and sad to think that kids have to practice this in the first place, because guns are more available than Nintendo Switch 2\u2019s, and school shootings have now achieved a frequency in which it\u2019s long past being not an if, but when, the next one is going to occur.<\/span><\/p>\n Regardless, it all amounts to all schools, of children of all ages, now having to spend a chunk of time periodically simulating what they would do in the event of a real active shooter situation, as if, if one were ever to occur, most people wouldn\u2019t just flat out panic and fall back onto running and hiding as best to protect themselves above anyone else over some protocol.<\/span><\/p>\n And seeing a photo of #2\u2019s class all huddled in a corner, as far away from the windows as they can be, set me off.\u00a0 They\u2019re a bunch of pre-K kids aged 4-5 \u2013 yes, jokes aside about how they can be obnoxious brats at times, it would take the sickest of fucks to be going after kids this young and still mostly so innocent to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n It just fills me with piss and bile at society that this is even a thing and being a parent it\u2019s a hopeless feeling of having no real power beyond just hoping that your kids don\u2019t ever become the unlucky winners any of the next school shooting sweepstakes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I remember watching this episode of Sacha Baron Cohen\u2019s Who Is America, and getting a good chuckle out of the clowning on America\u2019s obsession with firearms to the point where we should start arming our children as early as possible.\u00a0 But mostly I always love how no matter how much people in Washington have been … Continue reading Dad Brog (#154): It kills me to see kids practicing shooter lockdown drills<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,36,100,83,89,69,190,49],"class_list":["post-50824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-angst","tag-comparison","tag-observations","tag-racism","tag-television","tag-white-people","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50826,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50824\/revisions\/50826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}