08 April 2014 (21:46 UTC-07 Tango 09 April 2014)/07 Jumada t-Tania 1435/19 Farvardin 1393/09 Wu-Chen 4712

“Using live personnel as victims provides a level of authenticity that heightens our training.”-Bill Fletcher, Boone County Emergency Management

In Ohio, 30 members of the Boone County Civil Air Patrol (CAP) took part in a school shooting drill at Stephens Elementary in Hebron.

The CAP volunteers, most are High Schoolers, played the roles of shooting victims.  It turns out that by having students play victims it makes them “appreciate” the new police state: “Being a victim for the training made me think about past school shootings and helped me realize how hard responders train and work to protect us.”-Cayleigh Gingras, CAP Cadet

The question is: Why is there a seemingly sudden increase in school shooting drills across the United States?