Anonymous ID: 3c0bc9 Sept. 14, 2018, 8:09 a.m. No.3020696   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0714 >>0746 >>0779 >>0840 >>0918 >>1163 >>1256

Parents Upset Over Active Shooter Drill Done ‘To Expose Students To Sound Of Gunfire’

By Ralph Iannotti

September 12, 2018 at 11:24 pm

 

BETHEL PARK (KDKA) — At Bethel Park High School on Thursday, an active shooter drill is scheduled to get underway during an extended third period class.

 

This drill will include the sound of gunfire, but blanks will be fired, not real bullets. School Police and Bethel Park Police will conduct the exercise.

Nanette Adams has a son who just this year enrolled in the High School. She and some other parents contacted KDKA-TV News saying they were concerned about the drill; more specifically, the fact that blanks were bring used.

 

“Students have been prepared; although, I have not been advised about what that preparation consists of,” Adams said. “My concern is for students who may have some sort of issue with anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, special needs students.”

he high school principal sent emails out to parents saying in part that the drill will include an alleged shooter in the building.

 

The police will be firing blanks to expose everyone to the sound of gunfire in the building.

 

In the email, he said the blanks will not be fired at anyone, however the sound may be heard throughout the school.

 

Adams said she thinks that school officials should have provided more information about the drill, and not only is she apprehensive about the psychological effects the drill could have on some of the students but also how neighbors might react to the sound of what they believe to be real gunfire.

 

“There are homes located nearby, and I have no idea if anyone who does not have a student in the district has been informed that this drill is going to be taking place,” Adams said. “There’s a lot of unknown variables of what could potentially happen if a homeowner nearby heard shots being fired off.”

 

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/09/12/bethel-park-active-school-shooter-drill/

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Bezos: 'Secure and Confident' Trump Would Say 'I’m Glad I’m Being Scrutinized'

By Nicholas Ballasy September 14, 2018

 

WASHINGTON – Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said his company “should be scrutinized” by the federal government but urged politicians not to “demonize” or “vilify” big businesses.

 

“It is really important that politicians and others, they need to understand the value that big companies bring in and not demonize or vilify business in general,” Bezos said on Thursday evening at an Economic Club of Washington dinner.

 

“They shouldn't vilify big companies and they shouldn’t vilify business in general, for sure, and the reason is simple – there are certain things only big companies can do. I’ve seen this the whole way. I know what Amazon could do when we were 10 people and I know what we could do when we were 1,000 and I know what we could do when we were 10,000, and I know what we could do the day when we are a half a million,” he added.

To support his point, Bezos, the richest person in the world, used Boeing as an example.

 

“Nobody in their garage is going to build an all-carbon fiber fuel-efficient Boeing 787. It is not going to happen. You need Boeing to do that. If you like your iPhone, you need Apple to do that. You need Samsung to do that,” he said. “This world would be really bad without Boeing and without Apple and without Samsung and so on.”

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bezos-secure-and-confident-trump-would-say-im-glad-im-being-scrutinized/