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Stephen Downes

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There are all kinds of wrong with this story. "An Indiana school district, however, had a different idea of how to train its employees to prepare for an active shooter. This employer had its employees shot in the back, execution style, with plastic pellets." I'm tempted to say I'm "so glad we don't have active shooter drills here" but then I realize that it would not surprise me at all were our management to require one. The folly of a fully weaponized population should be obvious, I think - if not from statistics, then from the culture of fear that such an environment creates, and how education for such environments crosses the line from learning into propaganda. I won't watch the video, and I won't take part in active shooter drills, because I refuse to accept an environment in which this is normal.

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