I'm a Two-Time School-Shooting Survivor

[dukeman92]

https://www.thecut.com/article/brown-university-shooting-parkland-survivor.html

I intentionally left this out of the gun violence thread because I want to get eyeballs on it. The fact that we have young people in this country who are old enough to have experienced something like this TWICE is unimaginable. I am so fucking sick of the gun culture in this country.

 

[donbosco]

One wonders how many young people could be on this list.

Create a list of young people who have gone into a school lockdown because of potential violence (bomb, shooter) and you'd be in the thousands. My daughter experienced three in just a two year period at Asheville Middle School.

 

[SnoopRob]

One wonders how many young people could be on this list.

Create a list of young people who have gone into a school lockdown because of potential violence (bomb, shooter) and you'd be in the thousands. My daughter experienced three in just a two year period at Asheville Middle School.

My current senior at Carolina was in two in a little over 2 weeks between the Caudill Labs shooting and the Alpine Bagel scare.

They were also in one in elementary school because a guy had a rifle on his own property that was next to their school.

 

[ZZLPHeels]

One wonders how many young people could be on this list.

Create a list of young people who have gone into a school lockdown because of potential violence (bomb, shooter) and you'd be in the thousands. My daughter experienced three in just a two year period at Asheville Middle School.

I don’t think lockdowns by themselves indicate anything. We had bomb threats routinely when I was in school. Now they have the same thing but instead of bomb threats they are active shooter hoaxes.

 

[05C40]

Nothing even remotely similar to this happened when I was in school. But the following did happen and I don't think is scarred me for life. 1) In school we would practice air raid drills where we would crouch beneath our desks to "protect" ourselves from a nuclear weapon explosion. 2. I lived about 10 miles or so south of an Air Force Base where there were B-52's armed and fueled waiting the the "Ready" area. "Ready" meaning ready to take off in the event of nuclear war. 3. On more than a few occasions, B-52's from another base would stage a "surprise" attack on the local B-52 base at about 5 AM. A "surprise," i.e. below radar, attack by a B-52 at 10 miles out felt like the plane could have knocked bricks off our chimney if its landing gear had been down.

I really don't think these events from my childhood adversely impacted my development. And I pray the school shooting don't significantly impact today's children.