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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
These piss me off to no end. The odds of someone coming in and shooting up a school in Canada are so low, that there is more damage done by creating unnecessary fear in kids.
If they want to allocate time to trying to preserve the lives of kids, they should spend it on bullying and suicide education.
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There is more than one type of lockdown and 'a shooter' is not the only reason for them. There are 'inside only' "lockdowns" in which the students are not allowed outside but can roam freely about inside of the school. I can think of three of such that happened in Calgary in the last year, and all three for different reasons.
The 'active shooter' type of lockdown, in which everyone is locked into their classroom or the classroom they are closest to also has applications outside of 'just' an active shooter. More often than not it's because an angry/emotional parent is inside of the school and has been refused access to their child, so they go classroom to classroom to try to find their kid. (4x in the last year I can think of). Sometimes it's because a 'stranger' who appears to be high or drunk and/or has no apparent reason to be in the school has wandered in and can't be found (2x). There are also other weapons that people can bring into schools that aren't guns (3x) but you don't want them interacting with other students.
There are situations, beyond an 'active shooter' in which it's very helpful to have everyone who's supposed to be in the building located and accounted for and not moving around. It is helpful to practice these kinds of things, just like a business should be practicing fire drills, emergency plans and the like to see just how capable they are of doing them when actually needed.
As I often say, "During an emergency is not the time to be dusting off the emergency plan manual and reading it for the first time."