When I give preparedness talks to the general population, I start by asking for a show of hands: "Hi, I'm from the government. Who here wants to rely on the government to help them in a disaster?"Originally Posted by JodyH
I feel like the equivalent for my college students is, "Who wants to die under a desk? No one? Good. Let's talk about how to prevent that."
The way we do science in XCOM is basically by shooting things first.
- Jake Solomon
Ever watch this shit?
My parents did and hid under their desks as protection from nuclear weapons.
My question is, if kids from the 1950s survived the trauma of prepping for annihilation, can't contemporary kids survive prepping for mass shooting? I'm not endorsing unannounced drills for either, but I do think that kids today could be as resilient as kids who had faced other mortal concerns.
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I would agree but I believe being shot (and more so stabbed) is far easier to comprehend and fear than really appreciating what strategic weapons can truly do. Maybe I'm wrong.
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And there is video of mass shootings making it that much more tangible and frightening versus, say, watching a vintage bikini atoll nuke test.
Young people nowadays also live a generally much higher stress, constant pressure life than their grandparents did.
It is a difficult time to be a young person, not that life is ever easy at any point.
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