I agree with the first paragraph (my experience of drills like these was also as a fun break from the monotony of schooling), but strongly disagree with the other two.
The second two paragraphs seem to take the general structure of “this bad thing is actually good because it prepares people for future bad things”. By this argument, it seems like you could support any bad thing so long as it is less bad than some other bad thing that someone might hypothetically encounter in the future. I think it is much more straightforward to simply say that bad things are indeed bad, and that we should prevent whatever bad things we can at a low cost.
If you want to prepare people for living in places with a high incidence of gun violence (should we even be doing this?), it seems like practical and useful skills for avoiding violence would be paramount. Off the top of my head, you might teach them:
How to detect when a situation is escalating
How to identify whether a neighborhood is safe or not
How to estimate the proximity of gunshots
What to do when you hear gunshots
How to safely handle a firearm by going to a gun range
I agree with the first paragraph (my experience of drills like these was also as a fun break from the monotony of schooling), but strongly disagree with the other two.
The second two paragraphs seem to take the general structure of “this bad thing is actually good because it prepares people for future bad things”. By this argument, it seems like you could support any bad thing so long as it is less bad than some other bad thing that someone might hypothetically encounter in the future. I think it is much more straightforward to simply say that bad things are indeed bad, and that we should prevent whatever bad things we can at a low cost.
If you want to prepare people for living in places with a high incidence of gun violence (should we even be doing this?), it seems like practical and useful skills for avoiding violence would be paramount. Off the top of my head, you might teach them:
How to detect when a situation is escalating
How to identify whether a neighborhood is safe or not
How to estimate the proximity of gunshots
What to do when you hear gunshots
How to safely handle a firearm by going to a gun range