Florida High School Shooting Active Shooter Drill Tells All

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We've been reporting about the tragedy and the horror, but also the confusion. Some students telling me they thought this was a drill that there had been a fire alarm earlier in the day and that they had been told a few weeks ago that there would be an active shooter drill, but never did they imagine it would turn out to be the real thing. What you are watching is exclusive footage from NBC News of an active shooter drill. It's the 13th such drill the school district has staged in the past year. And the victims are students, all volunteers. Because they told us that they were going to have like fake, you know, and have people being taken away and like have them scream or whatever. So I was like, they must like in a school drill. Like is that? I was just thinking of places I would hide or run if in the scenario that had ever happened. I couldn't think of any. Look, you know, they could be practicing a code read. They talked about doing this. They even talked about police coming on and, you know, shooting blanks, you know, to see what would happen, you know. And schools all across the country, Texas to Indiana to Oregon have staged the kind of drill you are seeing here. And then I ran past the office and I saw more people day like kids I see inquire every day. And it was starting to get to me and then I like, and then I saw the gunman like right in front of me and I stopped and I meant to run. But I was kind of frozen in my spot and he shot me and I was like, I died. So it has been to send adults playing the role of homicidal gunmen into schools. It has been to teach kids the best way to shield their bodies from the bullets. This is ducking cover for a new generation. But of course, our old Cold War adversaries are gone. The enemy now is within.