Child’s sweet balancing act has dark, chilling meaning

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Michigan mother Stacey Wehrman Feeley was amused when she saw her daughter standing on the toilet seat in the family home. But then she was reduced to tears as she realized her little girl was practicing what to do if a shooter was loose in her school. Teachers told the child to stand on the toilet seat and be quiet. The Traverse City woman composed herself and soon posted the picture on her  Facebook page, where she wrote an impassioned plea arguing for improved gun controls in the US, with the hope of making such lockdown drills a thing of the past. “Politicians – take a look,” she wrote, in a post that has been shared more than 10,000 times. “This is your child, your children, your grandchildren, your great grandchildren and future generations to come. They will live their lives and grow up in this world based on your decisions. They are barely 3 and they will hide in bathroom stalls standing on top of toilet seats.”