“If the teacher tells you over the loudspeakers: This is not an exercise, everyone stands in a corner and remains quiet. What do you do ? “. In a video that has gone viral on TikTok, Cassie Walton, a 22-year-old American mother, decided to teach her 5-year-old son how to react in the event of a shooting at his school. In the pictures we can see the child seen clinging to a Spider-Man bag equipped with a bulletproof device, playing the game and drawing a smile “I’m going around the corner and I’m very quiet and still,” he replies to his mother, and rushes in a corner of his room. These exercises, this mother considered them important, just days before the start of the school year in the United States. “Every time I shot the video, I choked back all the tears and tried to get it all out,” Cassie Walton said in an interview with CBS on Aug. 16. He’s very intelligent, he grasped all the information very well. He wasn’t scared of the exercise, he knew it was serious.”
After ten days, the video already had 7.7 million views on TikTok and caused a lot of reactions from Internet users. The United States is regularly ravaged by mass school shootings. The last one killed 21 people in the town of Uvalde, Texas on May 24. Among the victims were 19 children under the age of 10. These tragedies invariably ignite debate over the country’s gun-carrying legislation.