I came to a sad realization the other day: I am likely part of the LAST generation of kids (I graduated the year of the Columbine shootings), either in the U.S. or Canada, that will NOT have to go through active shooter/lockdown drills at school.

That fucking infuriates me.

I NEVER worried about getting shot at school. Beat up? Maybe if I said the wrong thing to the wrong kid but that’s just school for you. But never shot. It didn’t even cross my mind.

Now I have nieces and nephews in my life and to think they will have to, as FIVE YEAR OLDS, start training for these kinds of things, is so disheartening. Even worse, I think about what would happen if I lost any of them in a school shooting. :(

Fuck gun culture.