Code Red!
Another school under attack!
Crazed gunman on the loose!
Lock the doors, turn off the lights, pull down the window shades, huddle and hide!
When I was a student some 60 years ago in the U.S., it was "duck and cover" in anticipation of a nuclear missile attack from Russia and Civil Defense sirens blaring precisely at 1 p.m. every Saturday afternoon.
Now, it's "hardening" of schools: impregnable steel doors, bullet-proof glass, metal detectors, X-ray machines, security guards with locked and loaded weapons at the ready, vicious German shepherd dogs on high alert, and teachers with Uzi's, AK-47'S and AR-15's as side-arms.
Why not just stay home, isolated, and watch lectures in virtual reality on the Knowledge Network? Or why not stop the sale of guns and confiscate the remaining stockpile of millions and millions of military assault rifles in civilian hands before it is too late?
What haven't we learned from in the past 30 years?
Harry Yates, Prince George
