The truth is, even with preparation, even with training, even with our administration's best efforts to prepare us for this, if a gunman were to enter my school, the result would likely be catastrophic, as it would for any other school in this nation. ALICE trains us to fight back, to rush the shooter as soon as they get in the classroom, to maximise our chance of survival, but all of us know the truth: if a shooter is in the same room as us, people are going to get hurt. People might die. And here's the thing. If we can attack the shooter, keep them occupied, it gives the cops more time to get to us. It keeps the shooter out of other classrooms where they could do more harm. That's the reality American children are faced with: a world where we, the students, must mitigate the tragedies, when they should have been stopped long before they ever reached our doors, when they never should have had the chance to even start to happen at all.