Great All-American convo w one of my grade schooler’s today.
GS: So we had a lock-down drill today. What’s the point? Ooooh, hiding in the corner. How does that block a bullet?
Me: … [no answer, bc no answer]
GS: At least let me have a metal water bottle, so I can hit him if he comes in.
Me: … [speechless, bc why does a grade schooler have to plan this out?]
Me, eventually: well, that is what they say you should do if all else fails.
GS: I can kill him if I have to, right? That’s self-defense of me and my friends?
Me: …
I’m so sorry you had to have this convo.
When I have had convos about lockdowns with my kids what I say usually includes “there’s this judge, Clarence Thomas, who made up a reason guns are legal…”
My sister's boy is autistic and so fucking smart it's scary. I adore him. He refuses to call me by my name and calls me "koo koo catchew". One day, not long after the Uvalde shooting, my sister was bringing him home from school and he told her that he would try "very very hard" to stay alive