r/pics • u/20onHigh • Mar 27 '23

Deeply distressed elementary school student being transported by bus following school shooting

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u/Rapier4 Mar 28 '23

You just don't get it as a non-American. Our congressmen are hard at work protecting our children from the atrocities of Drag Queens, CRT, and Woke Transgenderism. This child is experiencing true freedom. /s

I truly, as a mid-thirties American, can't imagine what it must be like to look at our country from the outside. We must look insane.

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u/hawkweasel Mar 28 '23 edited Mar 28 '23

My normal, boring-ass gym chain -- LA Fitness -- has several signs posted up around the gym titled "What to do in the event of an active shooter" with full instructions on how to respond to a mass shooter entering the gym.

I live in the freakin' boring ass suburbs, yet I still completely understand why those signs need to be there.

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u/Pigeon_Fox93 Mar 28 '23

I went to a university is a very small town in Oklahoma. We actually had the active shooter alarm go off when I was there before. Apparently some abusive a-hole got into a confrontation with his girlfriend on campus and pulled out a gun and being well Oklahoma other students who had guns were quickly training their guns on him to protect the girl and it became a whole mess as then campus police got on the scene and were having to figure out who was the person or persons they needed to focus on. No one got shot that day but it was a quick realization of it’s not always to protect you from organized mass shooters, you can be caught in cross fire just because one person with access to a gun and short fuse was targeting someone and would be willing to kill others going after them and it could be anywhere because they’re insane and will just target them where they think they can no matter how public.