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'You would all be dead': Girl teaches grim active shooter training in March for Our Lives PSA

The active shooter drill "expert" starts with a simple, but chilling, message: "If there was an active shooter, you would all be dead."

In a new public service announcement video from the gun violence advocacy group March for Our Lives, the tables are turned on who is teaching whom, and a young student tells a group of adults what to do in the event of an active shooter.

The PSA released Monday comes amid a week of two high-profile shootings – one at a California synagogue and another at a North Carolina college campus – and paints a stark picture of what children learn today during the drills.

Don't talk out loud so the shooter doesn't know where you're hiding, push tables and chairs against the door to barricade it, stand on toilet seats and crunch down if you happen to be in the bathroom, the girl, named Kayleigh, warns.

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"If the shooter comes in the room, screaming won't do anything. You have to try and fight back," she tells the group of adults.

The video – called "Generation Lockdown" – was filmed in National City, California, earlier this year and features actual employees from the area, March for Our Lives says.

When the young girl is called "an expert" on shooting drills and enters the room, the adults appear shocked.

After explaining the do's and dont's of an active shooter situation, Kayleigh then says her teacher used to sing a song to help students remember:

"Lockdown, lockdown let's all hide,

Lock the doors and stay inside,

Crouch on down, don't make a sound, 

And don't cry or you'll be found."

The video ends urging viewers to support stricter gun background check legislation.

Saturday, a gunman opened fire at Chabad of Poway near San Diego in a hate-fueled attack that killed one person and injured three more. Then Tuesday, after the PSA was released, a shooter killed two and wounded four more at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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Started after the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting that left 17 students and staff dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the March for Our Lives group has become a growing voice in pushing for new gun laws.

A little more than a month after the massacre, marches around the country drew millions into the streets to demand stricter legislation to end gun violence.

Follow USA TODAY's Ryan Miller on Twitter @RyanW_Miller

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