Emily Jashinsky
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Exactly.
Relief and also probably for some of them still fear, because what if someone is pretending to be the police, also not outside of the realm of possibility in a situation like that.
And so I'm 32.
I was in elementary school when Columbine happened.
And I think people, especially younger than me, but everyone who is like 30 and under,
You ended up having to do those drills in school since you're five years old, active shooter drills.
This is every student's worst nightmare.
These kids were just trying to get through finals and then the scene that they have seen
play out on their smartphones from different cases, Parkland, over and over, over the years as they've been in school, it visits them like a couple of weeks before Christmas and it's happening to them in real life.
So even though that was the police and they were hearing shots from the police, those kids are now traumatized.
That will stay with a lot of them for a long, long time.
That is literally the worst nightmare.
No, I agree with that.
I mean, I think I've been thinking a lot about this lately because, you know, in the Charlie case, we've been rightfully so focused on Charlie and his family.
And then I think, you know, there were thousands of kids that day who had a bullet whiz past them and they saw the carnage and the panic.
And that's thousands of kids who just at that one school
are now dealing with this panic and probably PTSD in a lot of their cases.
And you think about Brown, you get an active shooter alert on your phone, which I assume went out in the case of Brown.
It happens at schools.
There was a mistaken one that was sent out when I was in college.