My son's cousin (who lives in the US) was talking to him about 'gun drills' and my son asked, 'what is that, do you get to practice shooting a gun? That sounds fun!'

To us, this was a funny question, to my sister-in-law ... she was like 'wtaf.' I can't imagine having my son worried about that kind of stuff and I can't imagine the internal stress. That's why I said 'might' because it 'might' be normalized to the point that it's just background noise; a joke. Until it isn't.

My son and his friends run around in the streets like when I was a kid; they don't stop until the street lights come on. I could never take that away from him, and I feel like if we were to move back to the US, I would be doing that.

That has nothing to do with TikTok.

And before that it was the TV, and before that it was the radio, and before that it was the newspaper, and before that it was the printing press, and so on. Nothing new under the sun.

The new thing under the sun is that the Chinese government has a heavy hand in TikTok.

So we should respond by making it a 20 year imprisonment for using a VPN to access Wikileaks?