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Aren’t you tired of the fear? The fear that your child’s school is the next Columbine, Sandy Hook, Parkland or Uvalde?
It’s sick enough we live in a time when such concerns are real. We don’t need our anxieties heightened by social media “challenges” and “swatting,” or calls to make fake reports of incidents to draw a large police presence.
Thousands of parents and students were sick with that fear on Wednesday when almost 20 schools across South Carolina were subjected to false reports of active shooters being on campuses or similar hoaxes because of an alleged challenge on TikTok, according to reports.
In Richland County, Blythewood High School went through a full-on active shooter response Wednesday before police discovered the call was fake, as reported by The State’s Noah Feit. Sheriff Leon Lott said the fake call stemmed from a TikTok challenge.
Parents and students are not only fearful of active shooters, they’re angry that they have to live with such fear. If they’re numb to such fears and anger, that only demonstrates how engrossed they are in that fear.
But we can’t give in to feeling helpless.
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