A mom couldn't help but burst into tears after her 3-year-old toddler demonstrated a lockdown drill they have been practicing in school. School-wide lockdown drills are being carried out in the United States due to the deadly mass shootings in the country.
School lockdowns occur when the safety of faculty and students are at risk, usually from a shooter. Lockdown drills are designed and implemented with the aid of local law enforcement officials, and are conducted a few times annually at various times of the day. These drills don't come with pre-announcements so faculty and students can rehearse what they should do in different situations, Verywell reported.
Mother Confronts Politicians' Gun Control Stance
Despite the lockdown drills' purpose, the fact that U.S. schools need that kind of preparedness breaks the hearts of parents everywhere. Stacey Feeley of Traverse City, Michigan, for instance, broke down when her 3-year-old daughter told her that she is practicing a lockdown drill they were being taught at school.
On June 15, Feeley shared a lengthy Facebook post accompanied with a photo of her toddler standing on top of a toilet seat, one of the lessons being taught to them as preparation if there's a shooter in the vicinity. In the post, Feeley accused politicians for doing little when it comes to gun control.
"No one thinks gun control will be 100% crime control. But maybe, just maybe, it helps 1% or 2% or 50%?" Feeley wrote. "Why on earth are there not universal background checks? Where is a universal registration database? Why are high capacity magazines ever permitted to be sold to anyone other than direct to the military?"
In her post, Feeley praised Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy and his colleagues in the Senate for their call on stricter gun control. Murphy led a gun control filibuster last month after the Orlando gay nightclub mass shooting, where at least 49 people were killed by Omar Saddiqui Mateen. This week, Congress has headed into a recess until September without reaching any milestone on the gun control debate, NY Daily News reported.
Recent School Shootings In The US
One of the deadliest school shootings in the U.S. occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut on December 14, 2012. Shooter Adam Lanza gunned down 20 children aged between six and seven as well as six adults before killing himself, according to CNN.
The Umpqua Community College shooting, meanwhile, happened on October 1, 2015. Student Christopher Harper-Mercer killed nine people during the rampage, The New York Times noted.
