4 Year Olds Huddled in a Bathroom: The Price We Pay Forward to Keep Guns Available to All
Because the politicians in our country want to make sure anyone who wants a gun can get one, we are raising a generation of children who become accustomed to lockdowns. This chilling Common Dreams article describes a group of 4-year-olds who are experiencing their first lockdown drill… and it is an excellent argument against Universal Preschool. What parent would want to subject their 4-year old to this kind of experience? Presumably a parent who fears that the government will take away their gun is willing to make this trade off. Other parents may want to enroll their child in a school that is willing to assume that the odds against an invasion by a gunman are very high and would, therefore, avoid subjecting its children to this kind of de facto shock therapy.
Interesting that those who have solutions now to the gun problem and are most vocal are the extreme ends. No guns or everyone can have one. Surely in America there are brains enough to figure a workable solution in the middle. The problem is that there are too few left in the middle – everyone wants to be a radical where you don’t have to think about anything except your own view point and get on the news.