Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com

We’ve taught these kids that if someone is shooting irrationally, it’s up to them to interpose their bodies between themselves and their shooter because even if they die, it might save someone’s lives. Of course they’re fucking doing it.

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Saavik Ford @saavikford.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 04:28 UTC

I genuinely wonder if a lot of the uptick in student protest organizing (over the last several years) is driven partly by this mindset (we have to save ourselves, and do it collectively)…

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Viviane Elbee @vivianeelbee.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 10:53 UTC

So heartbreaking 💔

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David Farnell @azzageddi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 07:44 UTC

I used to really like Heinlein's books in high school and college, and I thought "the Crazy Years" are coming soon...and then I sorta outgrew all his pessimistic libertarian mindset. And now here we are. Jfc I feel so sorry for people in my former home. (I moved overseas a generation ago.)

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SwiftDefeat @swiftdefeat.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 12:21 UTC

It sounds like this is just a variation on the "run, hide, fight" active shooter response strategy, which actually makes a lot of sense... For adults. Teaching this to young children is *completely fucking insane.*

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Cherie Priest @cmpriest.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 05:16 UTC

really does feel like the top of the third act where the audience realizes that “wax on/wax off” was teaching something else entirely all along - and now the shit is about to hit the FAN

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Blue-star-charmer @bluestarcharmer.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 07:02 UTC

I can’t fathom this

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Josh O'Connor-Chen @joshoconnorchen.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 09:52 UTC

What the actual fucking fuck.

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Phil @keeptheskyblue.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 04:25 UTC

Just shockingly stupid. American gun culture is an embarrassment to the global community.

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Ahmet E. Acar @aeacar.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 06:01 UTC

that's so crazy to hear for anyone outside the US. it's the reason I declined job offers that'd force me to relocate there.

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Cape Cod Postaah @capecodblue.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 06:02 UTC

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Sprrrrrk! @sparrrk.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 05:20 UTC

I really wanna say something snarky or silly to lighten the mood. Nope. This till the jam outta my donut. My kids will be loud so others might live. Fuck

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Heskynn @heskynn.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 07:38 UTC

It's interesting to hear anecdotes of people refusing to move or coming home from the US sharply. I get asked if I'm going to move to live with SO in the US a lot. We don't want kids but I remember them being at uni and every week there was some kind of shooting in the area... God the stress was 😭

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 04:06 UTC

Source for the quote:

www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

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Tracey M @tracey-m.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 07:32 UTC

It is so disgusting that legislators and Justices just sit back and let a generation to be traumatised, just so they can take their blood money. Especially when a majority of gum owners would accept sensible fun controls.

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Carighan Maconar @carighan.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 05:42 UTC

Or, the usual absolutely crazy advise of every other country to the US, we just take people's guns away. But hey that certainly won't work only because it worked for *everyone*, right?

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Beefy @mamabeefus.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 11:46 UTC

you see, what I don't understand is why a lot of these similar people want to force childbirth at all costs (even at the mother's life) just to propose that kids use themselves as meat shields. last I checked school-age students (especially in elementary school) AREN'T enlisted. The fuck man

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Dot SpiteCandy @dot-spitecandy.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 04:51 UTC

Jeezus

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Michelle Lamb @mlamb.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 13:02 UTC

The gun lobby approves this message.

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Xan, Keeper of the greater Niagara bog. @xandariathepink.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 10:39 UTC

Like as bad as my school experience was, active shooter drills would have destroyed the rest of my sanity.

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Minuit @zoroark.ca [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 04:59 UTC

"10 seconds can save a lot of lives" Tell that to the cops dragging ass for hours.

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 05:27 UTC

I grew up within spitting distance of Redmond and the worst I ever had to go through in school was fire/earthquake drills. (The earthquake drills came in handy.) But reading this is like a punch to the gut.

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 @eldris.thellian.com [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 14:35 UTC

I can’t imagine growing up like that. It’s bloody awful.

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My Chihuahua has seen things @bkbirge.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 04:58 UTC

Unbearably sad. That people care more about unfettered access to guns than the lives of children makes me sick to my soul. The non-response to Uvalde from the Texas govt should have been met with dragging them into the streets and tarring & feathering them all.

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Ed Shoothowdy 🍉 @futureed.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 04:12 UTC

Yup. I will never forget the day my 2nd grader casually said “I don’t have a place to hide this year”

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 04:47 UTC

well come on, isn’t kindergarten the place where kids learn how to share, show and tell, and take one for the team in the event of a mass shooting because society has decided that bloodsport is normal

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Thomas Scott @wtscott.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 04:44 UTC

This is so fucking grim

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Andrew @andlist.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 05:25 UTC

There’s nothing civilized about this,

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Blade Vapsolotl @bladevap.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 13:22 UTC

And gun owners would rather vote for someone to decrease regulations and make them more likely to go on a rampage than be responsible with their fucking-stupid toys if they're having a bad day. They say "Biden's coming for our guns!"; well yeah, maybe he should. This is sickening...

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Reginald Cosmic @reginaldcosmic.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 05:49 UTC

It's even more shocking when you see that the headline is dated 2018. It's been six years, and if anything, it's gotten worse.

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Kalra Kilrai @kalra.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 14:07 UTC

Jesus Christ, this country is a living hell.

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KYLEY.DIAMOND @kyleydiamond.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 06:05 UTC

I was teaching 7th grade when I did my first "intruder drill". I didn't anticipate it would trigger the PTSD I was in denial about so I didn't excuse myself from the classroom and let another teacher run the drill, which is why the principal yelled at me for "traumatizing the kids". LIKE SRSLY.

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Shugunou @shugunou.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 07:54 UTC

Pretty sure this only works in movies.

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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 09:16 UTC

Reading this thread makes me thankful, yet again, that I don’t live in the U.S; without doubt the worst society in the Western first world.

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Kara the Valkyrie @karathevalkyrie.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 13:48 UTC

Meanwhile the Republicans have their deplorable base riled up over trans teachers and students.

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Kevin Hovdestad @hovdestad.ca [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 12:08 UTC

My wife and I moved from Colorado to Canada last fall for exactly this reason. I kept my three-year-old home from preschool the day they were going to put her through an active shooter drill.

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seacat @seacat77.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 05:06 UTC

i actually have no words.

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🇵🇸 Tsunami Matsika [VTUBER 🌃🌌🌊 - KALLISTI 🍎] @lawoftsunami.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 06:01 UTC

I can't help but contrast and compare this with how much and how vociferous the shows of force are being rolled out at universities right now. Bringing out assault rifles and plate carriers against barricades made of park benches Fuck me, man.

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Wendel @wendelschwab.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 05:00 UTC

We live in a dystopia, example number 3472. This is grim as hell.

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LrdSlvrhnd @lrdslvrhnd.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 07:24 UTC

Except... if everyone's being taught that, then everybody's running around making noise and nobody's running around. So this plan doesn't even make any sense.

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Lady Di 🌻 @ladydit.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 04:34 UTC

Stunned

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Stephanie 🎀 @beamsandbows.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 07:09 UTC

In this country, it’s apparently easier to ask a child to lay down their life for their classmates than to ask a gun hoarder to part with their weapons. WHAT THE FLAMING HELL??????!!!!!!

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