“Chances are, you’re never ever going to have to use this. If you do, it’s gonna be scary,” Kate Carleton told the 20 or so 8- and 9-year-olds. “But because we’ve taught you what to do, it makes it a little less scary.”

She spent the next 30 minutes teaching them how to stop a wound from bleeding out.

Although a child dying at school in a mass shooting may be unlikely, a child dying from a gunshot is not. Firearms are the leading cause of death among people 18 and younger in the US, accounting for nearly 19% of all childhood deaths.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I mean…if history repeats itself, we better buckle up. We’ve been in a bad recession for a bit, but not a great depression.

    So, hold onto your butts, because the 30s we won’t even have alcohol. And a silly mustache model will decide to commit mass genocide in an attempt to take over the world.

    Although they do say “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme”.

    Do maybe this time it’ll be a silly beard style instead.