Why We Are Drawn To Potentially Harmful Active-Shooter School Drills

It's easier to imagine nightmares than more regular types of badness

“School shooter drills terrorize our kids pointlessly” goes the headline of a New York Post column by Karol Markowicz. In New York City, each school has to do four ‘lockdown’ drills a year “to prepare kids for a potential school shooter, [which require] kids to hide in their classroom, sometimes in a closet, and remain quiet and out of view.” Elsewhere,…