Sohn: Lawmakers’ ‘blood money’ means lockdown training for us

Anxious family members wait for news of students as two people embrace Wednesday in Parkland, Fla. A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School killed 17 and sent students rushing into the streets as SWAT team members swarmed in and locked down the building. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) Anxious family members wait for news of students as two people embrace Wednesday in Parkland, Fla. A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School killed 17 and sent students rushing into the streets as SWAT team members swarmed in and locked down the building. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

By Pam Sohn February 19, 2018 3 min read

Something is sadly wrong in America when we have to have “active shooter” lockdown training in our schools and churches.

But that’s where we are.

Thursday after Wednesday’s deadly attack in a Parkland, Fla., high school, local educators were initiating or planning drills.

Lee Sims, the principal of Hixson High School, addressed his 800-plus students over the intercom, telling them a lockdown drill was scheduled for Friday.

“We said, ‘We hope it doesn’t happen here, but we’ll be ready in the event that it does,'” Sims told a Times Free Press reporter.