roach-works:dealanexmachina:Reminds me of that observation by Pelosi that she was struck by how swif
roach-works:dealanexmachina:Reminds me of that observation by Pelosi that she was struck by how swift and decisive her young staffers were, knowing instinctually to barricade the door, shut the lights and get under the table, because they had spent so much of their childhood doing active shooter drills. sorry to be pedantic for a moment but this is important: those young staffers didn’t know what to do INSTINCTIVELY, they knew what to do REFLEXIVELY. the human instinct in confusing and scary situations is just to freeze up and look around for direction. untrained people in a group will almost always react to deadly situations by freezing up in confusion. this is why we have drills: to teach people over and over what to do when they can’t think of what to do. gonna stress this again, those young people were reacting reflexively. not instinctively, reflexively. they had been drilled, over and over, until they were at the point where those reactions happened automatically, not because of an inherent human instinct, but because when confusion and fear shut their brains down, trained reflex took over, and they did as they had been taught. active shooter drills in school are arguably really stressful and traumatizing to kids. it’s definitely fucked up a generation, though the blame can probably be put on our awful gun laws rather than trying to deal with the reality of so many awful people having so fucking many guns. but in this one awful situation, with all the awful people, and all the guns, where the worst did actually happen and a lot of unprepared old people just froze up, those kids’ drills went and saved a lot of lives. -- source link
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