A Child Teaches Adults How to Survive a Mass Shooting in This Heartbreaking PSA

Highlighting the tragic reality of 'Generation Lockdown'

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We all wish we could protect children from the horrors of our world, but one of the darkest ironies of modern life is that preparing for mass killings has become an aspect of everyday life for schoolkids, while adults rarely think about it beyond the newest grisly headline.

To help show adults just how pervasive the idea of “active shooter” preparation has become in schools, advocacy group March for Our Lives and agency McCann New York have created a gut-wrenching PSA in which a child named Kayleigh surprises a workplace by arriving to be the group’s active shooter training coach.

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