And yeah we have a relatively high amount of shootings, but they are still rare in an absolute sense. A lot of this is driven by an industry that sells bulletproof desks and junk, and needs to keep people afraid because it's profitable.
Let me correct that for you: all of this is driven by a gun industry that sells actual guns and bullets and has for decades lobbied gun safety laws practically out of existence in the US, and needs to keep gun owners afraid of their "second amendment rights" being taken away because it's profitable.
That's true, but it's also true that, separately, the responses and mitigation efforts often aren't rational and are preyed on by opportunistic business people with an interest in misleading folks, just like anything else.
That's definitely not the right way to assign blame. There's absolutely room to blame all the stuff you've mentioned here and also acknowledge that doing active shooter training is a massive over-response that does a lot more harm than good.
Active shooter training is what happens when you try to make active shooting situations happen never again, and yet people stand in your way such that they keep happening over and over and over again, year after year, decade after decade. Columbine was 1999. And it's not just standing in the way such that we do a little bit at a time and act cautiously and conservatively in implementing changes to preserve everyone's rights, but standing in a way such that absolutely any action whatsoever is impermissible.
At some point if your goal is to protect children who are subject to active shooter situations (which in fact do happen), then perhaps training people to make the best of them when they inevitably occur is all we can do, given the political climate. When a school full of first graders turns up shot dead and literally nothing is done, maybe active shooter training doesn't seem like a bad idea. This massive over-response is a reaction to the preceding massive under-response.
If you really don't want active shooter training to be a thing, make active shooters a thing of the past. Other places don't have this problem. If you want to make a change, call your congress people, and don't vote for them if they won't support sane gun measures, even if they're from a party you typically vote for.
I don't think active shooter drills are that helpful. I think they are mainly "useful" as a political tool to take pressure off politicians and prevent any change in the "political climate".
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Let me correct that for you: all of this is driven by a gun industry that sells actual guns and bullets and has for decades lobbied gun safety laws practically out of existence in the US, and needs to keep gun owners afraid of their "second amendment rights" being taken away because it's profitable.
That's true, but it's also true that, separately, the responses and mitigation efforts often aren't rational and are preyed on by opportunistic business people with an interest in misleading folks, just like anything else.
That's definitely not the right way to assign blame. There's absolutely room to blame all the stuff you've mentioned here and also acknowledge that doing active shooter training is a massive over-response that does a lot more harm than good.
Active shooter training is what happens when you try to make active shooting situations happen never again, and yet people stand in your way such that they keep happening over and over and over again, year after year, decade after decade. Columbine was 1999. And it's not just standing in the way such that we do a little bit at a time and act cautiously and conservatively in implementing changes to preserve everyone's rights, but standing in a way such that absolutely any action whatsoever is impermissible.
At some point if your goal is to protect children who are subject to active shooter situations (which in fact do happen), then perhaps training people to make the best of them when they inevitably occur is all we can do, given the political climate. When a school full of first graders turns up shot dead and literally nothing is done, maybe active shooter training doesn't seem like a bad idea. This massive over-response is a reaction to the preceding massive under-response.
If you really don't want active shooter training to be a thing, make active shooters a thing of the past. Other places don't have this problem. If you want to make a change, call your congress people, and don't vote for them if they won't support sane gun measures, even if they're from a party you typically vote for.
I don't think active shooter drills are that helpful. I think they are mainly "useful" as a political tool to take pressure off politicians and prevent any change in the "political climate".