Searching For Safety: Where Children Hide When Gunfire Is All Too Common
(World News USA)

Justice Buress, 4, demonstrates how she hides under a table during a drill at Little Explorers Learning Center in St. Louis. Day care director Tess Trice carries out monthly drills to train the children to get on the floor when they hear gunfire. ST. LOUIS — Champale Greene-Anderson keeps the volume up on her television when she watches 5-year-old granddaughter Amor Robinson while the girl`s mom is at work. “So we won`t hear the gunshots,” Greene-Anderson said. “I have little bitty grandbabies, and I don`t want them to be afraid to be here.”- Advertisement - As a preschooler, Amor already knows and fears the sounds that occurred with regularity in their neighborhood before the pandemic — and...