Generation Columbine - A NowThis Film
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
- More than two decades after the shooting at Columbine, an entire generation has grown up under the threat of gun violence. This film examines the epidemic of school shootings and their lasting impact through the eyes of survivors.
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NowThis' film Generation Columbine examines the epidemic of mass school shootings through the eyes of people directly impacted by these events; touching on the grief, trauma, and anger they've experienced, as well as their move towards activism, healing, and acceptance.
The film covers those impacted by the shootings at Columbine High School, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Red Lake Senior High School on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
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Austin Eubanks died in 2019 of a overdose so heartbreaking may he finally be able to find peace. Just goes to show how the selfish actions of a few for a few minutes created a long lasting impact on so many for years to come. Rest in Peace Austin 💐💐
Austin started with opioids to deal with the pain of his physical injuries. His emotional pain was not addressed. He became a heroin user to escape the emotional pain.
My own brother had experienced this as well. He couldn't deal with his emotional pain, either. He's been gone for 20 years. My son never had the opportunity to meet my brother. Never had the opportunity to learn from my brother how to fish, how to play guitar, to learn how an uncle can be kind, gentle, funny and sweet.
I am so damned sorry to hear of Austin's passing. As I try to remind myself, he, as my brother, aren't in pain anymore. I hope they both are in a better place and are in peace.
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ele ajudou a tanta gente, mas no final não conseguiu ajudar a si mesmo, sucumbiu a própria dor, essas mortes estão nas mãos desses políticos egoístas que se venderam pra esses que só pensam em dinheiro pra campanha, dinheiro sujo de sangue das crianças..jovens que morrem pra que esses mau caráter tenham grana pra se manterem no poder..são tão assassinos como aqueles psicopatas que puxam gatilhos,não tomam vergonha na cara..tem sangue nas mãos também. quem sabem um dia um desses doentes frustrados.. mal amados que tem um arsenal de armas em casa..passam horas no computador tramando a morte de inocentes embaixo do nariz desses pais que ficam cuidando das suas carreiras e deixam esses filhos doentes soltos na saciedade fazendo o que querem, criam esses monstros dentro de casa, deveriam estar num hospício, e jogarem as chaves fora..depois aparecem pra pedir desculpas pelos lixos que puseram no mundo e não cuidaram..soltaram esses animais na Sociedade, desculpas não vão trazer de volta as pessoas que morreram e nem curar a dor do seus pais. ainda vem que eles fizeram um favor pra humanidade, deram um tiro na naquelas cabeças de merda e foram pros quintos dos infernos..o mundo está melhor sem esse tipo de gente que nem devia ter nascido, pois só causa desgraças..são tão covardes que não tem coragem de enfrentar o que fizeram..todos se matam, se não estavam deprimido pela merda de vida que levavam, se matassem sozinhos, mas não, querem levar junto pessoas felizes que tinham projetos e sonhos, coisas que eles não tinham..fossem a merda sozinhos..dói o coração de vê a dor daquele pai falando daquele menino tão doce..tão feliz, bem diferente daqueles dois infelizes que não eram felizes..e por inveja..raiva de quem era fez tudo aquilo..dá vergonha ter uns filhos assim, por isso foram se esconder num buraco por muito tempo..falharam, deram atenção necessária pra quem tem filhos retardados..só carreira..carreira..valeu a pena? se eles tivessem morrido sozinhos, tudo bem, quem não viu o monstro que estavam criando em casa que chorasse a perda, mas quem estava criando seus filhos com responsabilidade..dando atenção, carinho, prestando atenção nele..cuidando..não deveria sofrer por causa da negligência de alguns..quem quer da mais atenção ao trabalho..a carreira não deveria ter filhos, pra que? Pra causar desgraça? esses dois foi uma perda de tempo, dois inúteis..assassinos.
fiquei animada vendo ele fazendo aquele trabalho tão corajoso..usando sua dor..pra ajudar tantas pessoas, fiquei feliz vendo ele superando sua dor com esse trabalho, fiquei muito triste ao saber que ele não conseguiu superar, a dor foi maior..venceu , levando ele a sucumbir a ela..muito triste, que encontre a cura pra tanto sofrimento por culpa daqueles dois abortos da natureza que não mereciam nem respirarem o mesmo ar que ele respiravam..que estejam nos quintos dos infernos..
@@DonnaMayStanishI’m so sorry for you loss 🤍
I cried when I learned that he passed 😢💔 I cant believe it! Even as hard as he fought. Goes to show what happened that day continues to claim victims. RIP Austin 😞
I really like that this documentary doesn't even mention the shooters, instead focusing on the victims.
A lot of those so called victims are the reason why school get shot up let that sink in
Rip Austin Eubanks. You’ll be remembered for the work you did helping others fighting the same fight that you lost.
I know this is about K-12 schools but I feel like Virginia Tech gets left out of a lot of these conversations because it was a university shooting and not a K-12. That is the worst school massacre out there and should have been included in my opinion. 32 innocent college kids were murdered and the shooter was inspired by Columbine. So I felt like I needed to make this post in remembrance of them.
VT massacre doesn't get nearly as much reflection as any other mass shootings and its quite sad. Thank you for mentioning those victims both deceased and injured. They deserve recognition too!
Because the shooter was Asian.
Considering it was the worst shooting in the U.S. until the Vegas shooting, it does really not get talked about enough. I don’t go there but I’ve always seen people in the area posting in remembrance of the day it happened.
It's gets no mention because of the type of weapon used.
Here in Brazil, shootings occur in kindergarten schools, and also in cinemas, shopping malls and the like.
This film does a powerful job of showing the tragic truth that the ones who were shot were not the only victims.
Family of the lost are the other victims.
and friends@@shelleyoneal1267
Trauma affects EVERYONE involved in these incidents
RIP to Jeremy and Austin, as well as the two students who completed suicide. Trauma has no expiration date. Even with support, it can keep eating away at a person. Survivor’s guilt is devastating even decades later. The ladies talking about their support group is a beautiful idea, and I hope it can help survivors heal together.
Saying RIP to the shooters shows how stupid ppl in the world are these days. You are sad, and a disgrace
@selfcare4667what an horrible thing to say
@selfcare4667 and your priest would also be disgusting to held such believes.
@selfcare4667 That you are a majority doesnt mean you are right. And isn't christianity supposed to be all about love and help for others? Think about those people loved one that might read this, or others wjo have lost someone to suicide.
@selfcare4667based
I also need to say this as well… I went to a Broadway show 2 days ago. The night before I was watching things on Parkland, Pulse, and the Bataclan. Before the show started they made an announcement about emergencies and where the exits were. I purposely sat right next to an exit just in case. Call it paranoid, but I honestly don’t feel safe very many places anymore. I grew up in a time where these things were rare and then they weren’t.
It's wild that in the US, the legal drinking age is 21, but you can legally own a gun at 18.
Old enough to get shot, but not old enough to drink. Welcome to the U.S
You need to be 21 to legally own a gun in the US and in most stat3s you can't own a gun at any age, dumbass
I have been sober in AA for ten years and in that time, I have met many people in the program who are either survivors of school shootings or their lives have been heavily impacted by one. We're now at a point where this has impacted the public health of our communities in the same way a virus has.
Gerry, congratulations on your decade of sobriety. Each day is a victory. I'm sure you've been an encouragement to many people, both in the program and out.
Congrats on your sobriety! Sadly that’s very true, even in Columbine lives have been taken through addiction brought on by the trauma. Austin Eubanks who appeared in this video was a student and his best friend was killed there, he was a great speaker on addiction. Sadly he lost his fight some years ago. That trauma truly never leaves you…
You can't get your 5 minutes of Fame by riding on the backs of dead people.
They were the ones murdered- you weren't!
“Do we get a prize” that broke my heart
This is not normal. I'm Irish and have never been afraid to send my children to school. It's heartbreaking to see this happen to US kids 😢
That's because in the uk we've had 1 school shooting back in 1996 16 kids died that day and that's all it took to ban guns
Ur very lucky🍀🙏 but happens anywhere unfortunately...
Were you around for the Troubles? The Omagh Bombing in Ireland shortly before Columbine was twice as deadly and literally made blood run through residential streets.
@@evanstein3011 The issues in Northern Ireland were caused by the British. I'm Irish and can assure you that it is a great place to raise children. No guns or bombs.
We are lucky that in Europe is illegal to have a weapon, only for that It don t happen frequently as in US. But it started in Prague few months ago... Because crazy people get example from media.
My mom works in a school. We aren't even american, but the day Sandyhook occurred, she came home and cried. My brother and I were the same age as the children killed.
Now, when these things happen, my mother doesn't even cry. She's seen it happen too many times to shed tears over it.
i’m 15 and i cry every time. i can’t help it. i live in texas and i have personally experienced multiple situations like this at school to the point where the ding of the announcements sends me into a panic state. every time i hear any sort of sound out of the ordinary my heart drops and my blood runs cold.
@@iheartts.Im so sorry you have to endure that 😢
Gen Z reminds me of the shell shock generation, the ones who saw war. This is truly Generation Lockdown. They were born after Columbine and never knew a world without school shootings. Where as most millennials still remember a world when school was safe. Gen Z has never known this.
Thank you for this thoughtful post. I never thought what this does to the whole generation.
One of the first major events I remember as a kid was Columbine, and I was only three. It's burned into my mind somewhere, which is not a comforting thought.
I never felt particularly unsafe at my own school (small rural environment where everyone and the staff knew you and your family's business. A lot of issues were snuffed out before they got very far), but it was always there in the background. We started doing active shooter drills shortly after Sandy Hook.
Lmao
As a younger millennial I don’t recall a time before school shootings.
Millenial here. Columbine happened when I was 10, young enough to go through the rest of my education (even college) scared and alert.
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When i seen “Austin Eubanks died on may 18th, 2019” right after he showed us that nice facility and the work he leads to help etc it floored me…. Did not expect that at all! if someone like him who seemingly has it all together so much so that he actively helps others what chance does one really have? it’s like a punch to the gut. All that tearful motivational stuff about helping others and helping ourselves be better despite our trauma is really difficult to swallow now… I promise by the grace of god i won’t give up.
Exactly !! I was looking for a comment like this I can’t believe he passed!! This is sad they introduced him to us and let him tell his story and then the tragic news , every life is precious I just hope he’s in a better place now
Spoiler alert on a persons death?
This doc is saddening on so many levels. The soul crushing trauma, pain, and despair on display is too much. Why would any civilization allow these events to be perpetrated on children is beyond human logic and comprehension, not to mention the adults who share these horrific tragedies. I hope peace can be found for them.
Do you feel the same for the children of places like Syria, Libya etc?
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@@MrGonzdjyes i do it’s heartbreaking no one deserves to be killed especially children
You nailed it when you said "why would any civilization" because the USA isn't civilized. It has the facade of civilization but compared to most other developed nations it lets its citizens down again and again.
Columbine High School, Littletown, Colorado. 13 dead.
Sandy Hook Elementary School, newtown, Connecticut. 26 dead.
Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High school, Parkland, Florida. 17 dead.
Robb elementary school, uvalde, Texas. 21 dead.
School shootings need to stop. All of these children were too young. All of those teachers had many years in front of them. Rest in peace 13, 26, 17, and 21. We miss you guys so much.❤
don’t forget virginia tech.
@@pabloescobarschanclas oh my goodness. I’m so sorry😕
Appalachee High School Winder Ga 4 Died 2024 my community! It had to stop!
Watching kids explain why they have to hide in their classroom just broke my heart 💔
Oh man I didn’t know Austin had passed!! Absolutely heartbreaking 🥺 I hope he was able to find peace on the other side that he couldn’t find here. Horrible 😔
Yeah. I was a freshman in high school when this happened. We were scared. The next year a kid was found to have a hit list and was expelled, but still we were scared but didn’t live in fear of that happened again, or often. Now, it’s literally a daily thought and prayer of mine, since I have kids now.
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I went to school I central Florida and the following year after columbine a bunch of people were expelled for hit lists and school shooting plots. It was wild.
I was a senior in HS. It was shocking, but I don't remember anyone being scared
Does anyone else remember certain details that are no longer included in most reports on Columbine? I remember seeing this video claiming that Dylan Klebold had Communist hammer and sickel pins on his person during the shooting. And that several other incidents across the country happened where the assailant also had hammer and sickel pins. I believe they were on his boots.
This is just one of dozens of mind boggling things surrounding this event that doesn't match up with the official story. I'm not a tin hat type of person, but the way the country reacted to Columbine it almost seems like a fuse was intentionally lit. At the bare minimum there was a large scale cover-up. There's lots of evidence these 2 didn't work alone. Dozens of eyewitnesses identified multiple other shooters, all by the same names. Others claimed they saw dead bodies in places the official story claimed never were there. Something was definitely off.
I was a senior in high school in 1999. I was weeks away from graduation like many of the students. Here in California, the Columbine Massacre took us by surprise due to the fact that school shootings were rare back then.
So who else is here after the newest school shootings that happened this week? I hate that I come back so often to this video, because I always come back to this whenever there's a school shooting...
Prayers for children all over the world that see such horrific atrocities. I pray for healing for all of them.
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Que lindo comentário! 🌷Deus abençoe as crianças. Os adultos tbm.🙏🏻🙌🏻
Mostly just in the US unfortunately. The people in our government do not care about children they only care about money and getting re-elections. If this happens in any other country they immediately passed gun control and no more happened.
This was powerful
This documentary should be permanently in the school curriculum every child should watch this at age 12 then again at 15
As an outsider the gun control argument blows my mind
I will never understand why some Americans place their guns above the lives of innocent children
Take the guns away Many other countries have done it quite successfully
Bad crims will always find a way to get a gun but everyday good citizens won't be able to
These young kids featured in this doco will eventually make change
I hope many go into politics to get this done
FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!!!
.....I thank God every day for my 2nd Ammendment right to protect my family.....
There was this one guy who took all the guns from the general population.......his name was Hitler.
Watching the classroom go into lockdown made me cry. I graduated in 1998, we had nothing like this. My son, who is the same age as the Sandy Hook kids and graduated in 2022, talked about doing the shooter drills and evacuations. I never realized he was doing things like this. It physically hurts. And now we have to be scared of going to our grocery stores, Walmarts, and dollar generals. When will it be enough? Something needs to change... It's not all about mental health, tho that's part of it. It's not all about racism, tho that's a part of it. It's not all about gun regulations, tho that's a part of it...
I teared up because I graduated in 2014. I remember blocking the door and being really quiet. It's hard to think about it all now with what we've seen.
Yes, there were, shootings have been occurring since the 1700s in the USA.
Another thing, before Eric and Dylan, there were 7 other shootings in the 90s😂
@@JavraK.Z.L I obviously know that. I mean we never had to do shooter drills.
What kind of dumb comment is this?! And you think it's funny? You are what is wrong with the world with your ridiculous thought process of "There were shootings since the 1700s" And?! @@JavraK.Z.L
It is definitely not all about mental health. I know this as I live in Canada and we’re in the depths of what I would say is a mental health crisis. Our (otherwise not bad) healthcare system does a very poor job of identifying and supporting anyone, if any age, with mental health care challenges. Again, speaking from experience as one with struggles myself with children in the same boat.
The only-only-difference is gun/ammo restriction. We haven’t “banned” all weapons. I can go into our equivalent of Walmart and guns can be bought. I just can’t buy rounds and rounds of ammo with a high-powered weapon.
In our schools after Columbine we did implement lockdown drills, and hold and secure. We don’t-and I hope we never do-run active shooter drills. As a teacher, the notion of never feeling safe at school is one I can’t imagine.
I do have situational awareness but it’s not always “on” and I’m glad I don’t have to do that too! A fire drill is a fire drill. My awareness has increased a bit since being at a McDs when a stabbing happened outside of it with the victim running in. It’s odd to imagine how that would’ve been very different if it had been a gun vs a knife. In that scenario I ran on adrenaline to support a young child as her dad helped the victim…but that after-effect shock is not one I’d want others to experience.
Personally I think many Americans are in constant fight/flight mode-like collective, ongoing fear. Certainly if/when I do cross the border I’ll admit that my own behaviour shifts into protective mode a bit more.
My nephew turned 6 today. Seeing those kiddos’ pictures at the end broke me. Our country is so lost.
Explain why the country is lost. If you want more gun control, explain what specific laws you want enacted so an honest discussion can be had.
@@Joe-hz1nw I don’t want to have a discussion with you. I said what I said and I stand by it. Move along if you don’t like it.
@@baybae92 typical gun control advocate. All emotion, screaming out like a 2 year old for something to be fixed while having no idea how to actually fix it. Just want big daddy government to come save you. Absolutely pathetic. Grow up.
@@Joe-hz1nwHow on earth can this be your response to what thst person just said
@@baybae92 that is how two year olds think. If you say, “our country is so lost” and my guess is you vote accordingly, but you can’t even articulate what specific laws you want changed, you are a huge part of the problem. Just yelling at the sky for change gets us nowhere. We need laws written with calm, level headedness in mind, weighing out pros and cons, understanding the current laws on the books. It’s crystal clear to me you know none of this and it’s just a childish emotional outburst. If you’re an adult, shame on you for your 5 year old level of maturity.
News flash, politicians and the media prey on your emotional responses to things. You’re clearly ripe for the picking for politicians that are sociopaths that will take every one of your rights away for the promise of “safety” or any other hare-brained utopian promise.
It got so much more depressing when they shared that Austin had died from his own battle with addiction. I feel so bad to see him be so passionate about what hes sharing only to die years later.
20 years later and nothing has changed
What specifically do you want changed? What specific laws? Just saying there has been no change and insinuating there needs to be change without describing it is useless.
isn't it obvious or are u just dumb? At the minimum, stricter laws should be introduced as to who can buy and own guns.@@Joe-hz1nw
@@Joe-hz1nw What do you expect, nothing will change. I doubt anything will change in the next thirty years plus. The political agenda has been set and there are no people in power that are motivated by the welfare of others. No empathy.
@Joe-hz1nw THERE HAS BEEN NO MEANINGFUL CHANGE in regards to the PREVENTION of future MASS SHOOTINGS. Take a look at the utter disgrace of UVALDE TEXAS!! They should have metal detectors instead of just a school resource officer. And YES I am a parent and have a child who attends high school.
@Joe-hz1nw nothing changed means the shootings still continue, and lawmakers haven't done anything to bring it down.
My 9 yr old grandson has major anxiety from COVID and battles every day to go to school, 3 days after he was sent home for vomiting in class, they have a report of a gunman in the building. They had to hide under the desks, he is traumatized. When I seen this on the TV, I immediately went to my kids high school to get them. The parking lot was full of parents picking up their kids. All these years later and I live very close to Parkland, my friend has a grandson there. Thank GOD his was ok
The waves of trauma for American citizens going through this is just unbelievable. The levels of people affected one cannot comprehend and it’s lifelong.
I graduated HS in 2013 and while I have never experienced a school shooting, constantly seeing these events unfold is traumatizing.
As a Dutch mother of a teenager, this is a part of American culture I never can or even want to understand. I always looked up to the US. Saw it as a land of possibilities. There are so many beautiful things we got from the US. Stayed in Pennsylvania for three months late eighties and Loved it. But now I would not even consider moving there if you give me a green card and a job with top salary. I feel so bad for the parents who see their children leave in the morning and wonder if this might be the day. The children lose innocence by doing gun violence drills. This is really not a thing a child should have worry about. I'm so so sorry you have to go through this. Hope the day will come soon that politicians start understanding this really has to change because even checking for metal problem is not the answer. Even that totally mentally sane person can get depressed, get burned out or get other mental problems if they hit a rough spot in life.
It is a very powerful but also very depressing and frustrating documentary.
Fellow Dutchie here. I don't think teachers in our country would agree to work in these conditions. They would strike. I think the whole country would strike until child safety was addressed. I'm so thankful for living in a civilized society.
I think your words are so profound and probably reflect the views of so many other countries. It is a shameful thing about America.
@@carmenl163America is a civilized society, our government just doesn’t care…Teachers have striked and are still doing so.
@@HerbBrid3hundreds of millions of people can't make the people they hire/elect to do as they are told.
I'm sorry, that does not reflect to civilized society.
Your government works for you. You're the boss. Stop putting the government above yourselves.
*Hundreds of millions of you*, and you can't make them do as they are told.
It's freaking unbelievable.
USA is a 💩🕳🤡🗑️ country the hilarious thing is that china and USA have similar societal issues but different languages however China overcame its violent era in the 90s
As a teacher, I feared on how would I protect my students. Every time another shooting happened I prayed and hoped it would never happen again, but as we know now it still happens. RIP to all the victims.
Mass shooting is such an easy thing to prevent.
I live in the UK, I am 67 and can only remember one or 2 at the most. It is so rare here.
It seems that some people's right to own a gun is more important than others rights to live without fear of being killed.
How can that be right?
The US has 400 million guns in circulation. Logistically, it would be impossible to prevent mass shootings in that country.
@@Dimitris_Half So practically what happens? The police come and collect 400 million guns from everyone in the US and everyone just complies?
Columbine made school shootings mainstream but it was a problem before that. Columbine wasn't even the first fetal school shooting that year. A similar fetal school shooting happened a year prior in Arkansas that had two shooters.
population are different. Different demographics. There's tons of reasons. In Canada we got gun crimes, and we have some of the toughest gun laws in a first world country.
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It’s so sad to hear them label themselves as “the generation of gun violence”. It’s really gut turning, and I wonder if people felt the same when my generation was labeled “the 9/11 generation” I grew up hearing and learning about war in the Middle East.. this generation gets to grow up hearing and learning about the war in their schools.
I was 14/15 when sandy hook happened. And every year after I was so afraid to send my younger two siblings back to school. These horrors have lasting impacts on everyone, especially if they had to live through it and lose someone.
Exactly! I even went to my little brothers school to check it out because I was do anxious about them being safe.
I was 21
I’m from the UK and I have to say you guys have the most beautiful country especially Colorado, I’m just so sad for everyone that’s had endure the ugly side of politics, gun laws and drug addition, which ultimately contributed to these atrocities My heart aches for you all. ❤
This is so sad. I am so glad Scotland took immediate action after the one and ONLY school shooting that happened here. The second amendment is from a time where it took minutes to reload, there were no guns that could possibly cause the damage that they can today. I really hope the government can open their eyes and see what their own people are asking for. To feel safe, for their kids to feel safe at school that is basic. This was truly a sad watch.
I was two years old when columbine happened and my older sister just graduated middle school, and I was a freshman in high school when sandy hook happened and I will never forget what I saw on the tv and telling my mom I was afraid to go back to school that Monday .
As an Australian, this just blows my mind and I can confidently speak for the majority of the Australian population when I say this.
We have NEVER had a school shooting. NEVER!!!
The anxiety that these students must attend school with because of the historical notion and also because of the drills that need to undertaken, must be so massive.
It makes me cry.
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We almost had one recently but he couldn't get inside the school for some reason, fired the gun a few times outside the school and got arrested.
Don't EVER speak for "the majority" when youre so obviously not educated at all on the topic.... in the last 12 months alone Australia has had several incidents involving mass gun crimes, its just not reported on because it doesn't fit the fake "gun laws made us safer" narrative, and because it would break your poor little brains to realise you were totally duped, also the ONLY way your narrative works is if you completely ignore or dismiss the issue of all other types of violent crime sky rocketing and becoming more and more out of control...... some of us aussies see these laws for what they are and we see the REAL issues like mental health issues that play a far bigger role than youre willing to admit
Your government did the right thing after Port Arthur. Mass shooting after mass shooting here, our government tries to make guns EASIER to obtain. Sheer madness
Statistically, these events are extremely rare. If you’re worried about them as an American you should be too afraid to drive and a litany of other things you do every single day bc they are far more dangerous, yet no one is.
Your fear is based on childish emotion. Grow up.
Wow this was an absolutely tragic yet amazing documentary thank you for this. My heart breaks for USA, as an aussie and comparing how swiftly our government made changes after Port Arthur and seeing what the US still has to go through it’s just heartbreaking
We as a nation are extremely lucky. Let's hope that it stays this way.
It's pretty inspiring seeing how strong America has been in resisting gun control.
Yeah let's NOT pretend that the laws you mentioned are actually effective in any real way shall we.... so sick of uneducated aussies in comment sections on the issue of school shootings, smarmily commenting how much better our country is with said laws in place, especially after we have had one major mass casualty and passing incident an hour from me, and especially while every other day there's a gangland shooting or some other similar crime, IN THE LAST 12 MONTS ALONE!!!! The laws just took lawfully obtained guns from law abiding citizens, and left crime rates pertaining to other deadly crimes (for example stabbings or armed breakins) absolutely sky-rocketing, in other words the laws DIDNT work and they never will, its insane to me that people can so confidently say that the laws worked and we as a country are far safer when the truth is very very different, gun control DOES NOT WORK, mental health issues and a desire to do harm as any cost DO NOT respond to laws, and it's sickening that you people will so happily and willingly ignore reality for a pipe dream that you'll never achieve and that you'll use and manipulate others especially children to do it
It's not just in the USA that shootings occur
@@OfficialCharles - The problem is not the weapons, in Brazil there are massacres in schools and the "shooters" use bladed weapons, such as axes, etc. Whoever wants to hurt others will do it, regardless of the weapon she has in her possession
I can't believe austin eubanks is gone, R.I.P to him due to addiction and the 13 victims that died in the columbine shooting 💔🙏
I was in college when Columbine happened. I will always remember that day. I was at my internship, and we were in shock. I grew up in the 70’s/80’s and graduated from high school in 1992. School shootings weren’t a thing when I was a kid. We weren’t scared of being shot then, and it breaks my heart that kids have to worry about this now. I was a teacher, and lockdown drills were awful. Even though they were drills, you could see how scared the kids were, even though I taught middle school. And each year, I had to explain what to do if the door wasn’t locked, or if they were somewhere in the school where there wasn’t a door, etc. It’s just so heartbreaking. How many innocent kids are going to be shot, until something is done?
I’ll never forget the day this happened. I had just graduated from high school a few years before and this was unimaginable. It’s still is unimaginable every time it happens and feels like a national trauma.
I wasn't paying attention to Austin's name when he came up, as he was talking I realized who he was and what was going to happen to him. I think his story might've been the most powerful for me.
A friend of mine at school, in March 2019, opened fire on teachers and students, killed 8 people and committed suicide on the spot. We found out later that he was a fan of Eric and Dylan. His name was Guilherme Taucci and he was 17 years old
I was in labor with my 25 year old child as Columbine was happening and it was on all the TVs in the hospital and was so cathartic for me. I was bringing my first child into the world and other parents were losing their children. I carry that with me everyday and it baffles me that 25 years later this problem has grown so out of control and our government won't do anything to stop it.
Devastating we’re still dealing with this issue even now, 20yrs later.
At 38 minutes watching the kids barricade made me cry. What a world we live in 😥
This is mind-blowing. I have a child in his first year of school and he's never even heard the words active shooter or shooter drill. There's no part of his mind that could imagine he isn't safe at school. I'm so grateful for Australian gun laws keeping our kids here safe!
This incident has tormented everyone in Denver who was here when it happened. We all know where we were when we found out. We all had our parents trying to make sense of it all for us. Our parents had to pick us up and we saw the tears in their eyes along with the guilt of "at least my baby is safe" even though so many people didn't have their babies anymore. I didn't go to Columbine, but I watched our city change in a moment. I hope these survivors and communities find peace.
Such a brutal watch… My heart goes out to everyone so affected by these senseless tragedies. Columbine happened when I was a freshmen in high school; I can’t believe the beef we’ve done is to train elementary schoolers how to hide from an active shooter…
I remember this well. I had 2 students, who skipped school that day, in my office. We knew what was up, but they didn't. We had them call home but they couldn't get ahold of their parents to tell them they were okay... since they didn't come out of the school.
This has been going on for so long now, and we have so many heart breaking testimonies from survivors and witnesses that still choke me up. I don't know how there are so many people in this country who can watch these atrocities play out again and again and come to the conclusion, "Nothing we can do about that."
What specific laws do you want changed? What policies put in place?
the black screen saying that austin had died broke my heart. i hadn't heard from him prior to this video. i did genuinely enjoy listening to him speak. he chose his every word with so much thought and wisdom and i was really wishing for him to get better and "overcome" his addiction.
i've seen this video a couple of days ago and it still sticks in my mind today - impressively well made and truly so heartbreaking
The children's book gave me goosebumps. I was in 5th grade when Sandy Hook happened. My brother and cousin are teachers. How does our government continue to allow this to happen?
British teacher here - we've recently had to start rehearsing lockdowns and invacs, and I'd like to both thank and honour all the EMTs, teachers, TAs, security and staff for all they do. Our kids get nervous enough in a practice, and I'm in awe of the work you guys across the pond do. ❤
That’s an absolute lie
You can check if you wish - we have to rehearse this termly, both if we have someone come on school grounds and if there's a potential danger out the front of the school. Think there may even be a government doc on it but not sure, will look
@simplesushichef my son has never had to rehearse in school in the uk...none of the schools local to me have.
@admiralsnackbar69 that's fair, I work in a school in the East of England, and to date we've had a drill at least once, if not twice an academic year, though it was originallyplanned to be a termly rehearsal. We've also had sirens installed so we can issue the direction more precisely, rather than using a message on our laptops like we have done previously.
I'm not sure if this publication from the govt was guidance or issued to eventually be mandatory, but with the way I've seen things going, I wouldn't be surprised if it does eventually become commonplace.
I was an incredibly anxious child, fire drills terrified me. I cannot imagine what having to do active shooter drills would’ve done to me…
I'd imagine would have done to you the same thing nuke drills did.
I was 12 and in 6th grade when columbine happened, but I remember active shooter drills (they were called “dr purple”) back in elementary school. This was in a tiny town in upstate New York.
honestly growing up in school in the late 90s and graduating in 2013 I never really felt the weight of school shooter drills like I would've felt if I were going to school now. School shootings were still kind of rare but they've gotten so much worse
@@Locke99GSactive shooter drills we did were like a horror movie. We had to turn off all the lights and hid in a corner, our teacher covering us. It was dead silent until we heard footsteps and the doorknob jiggling. The drills were haunting unlike our fire & tornado drills, and I can’t even imagine the real thing.
Violence, grief, trauma, and courage, empowerment and hope brilliantly explained
My child came home with a comic book about school shootings and how to stay safe and I had to fight back the sobs because I didn’t want her to feel as afraid as I was when I opened that book bag to find that comic book.
The way daniel’s dad explains his grief is exactly what i feel when it comes to my parents. They both died, and not in this terrible, tragic way and I don’t know what it feels like to lose a child, I imagine it would be the worst thing in the world as my son is my universe, but that deep longing pain it really is so crazy how much you can feel it.
Every time I watch these films. I wish I had the power to fix this.
What would you do specifically to fix it?
I understand that feeling. Sadly no individual has the power to fix problems like this alone. But together we can work on solutions. We can Start working on the root of the problem. Society in a whole is broken apart because we don't act as a collective anymore at best we act in smole families and if thet last collective link braks apart there is nothing, no social networking no controlling network capturing changes in a kids behaviour soon etc etc. if we start to change how our societies work and we start acting as a collective again, an working is for the community with the community we have so much stronger social security networks, so that it becomes less and less likely something like this even crosses the mind of a kid. But till then we have to also fight the tool that is used even though it's just a symptom. You can do stuff. Join a activists group, join a union, join a lokal healp group something that unifies us as ppl again.
I'm not american. Wathing kids having to do drills for these kind of situations is preposterous. It's mind boggling to see them placing chairs in front of the classroom door and tell the teacher what place they chose for hiding. The US government doesn't care about the life of your kids, all they care is their own interests. I was 10 when Columbine happened, I remember what it felt like even though I was a young boy. I can't believe nothing changed. America you're not as free as you think you are.
These are just a small percentage of school shootings that are reported by the media, while there are hundreds more that are going unreported and that is scary. School is supposed to be a place where children learn and reconnect with friends and for staff to work and not to be feared of
Still remember being at work and everyone glued to the tv when this was going on.
I was 12 I’m 36 and schools haven’t gotten any safer. 😢 this still breaks my heart and feels like yesterday when we see this repeatedly happening to this day.
RIP Austin, Jeremy and others 😢 This is an amazing documentary
The worst thing to be scared of in New Zealand at school is a fist fight. Can't even imagine how it would be worrying about a shooting
I knew one of the victims of Sandy Hook. We swam against each other. My mom and his dad would often talk about life while timing together at swim meets. Daniel was my age, and he was a very kind boy. We weren’t on the same team so we didn’t see each other often, but when we did it was always nice. He would wave at me and I would wave back. He would wait for me at the end of the lane and give me a high five when I finished swimming, and I would do the same. He was an incredible young boy, and he had a very bright future ahead of him. He was kind, smart, funny, caring, and overall a very good kid. He deserved to grow up. He deserved to get to swim along side his teammates at championships that year. He did not deserve to die. None of these kids did. Things have to change. They just have to. And I know people say that it’s their right to have a gun and whatever and they’re right, but i honestly don’t care. People say that banning guns isn’t gonna do anything because guns aren’t the problem, people are, and, while I agree that the problem is people, guns make it worse. It may be your right, but at what point does that stop mattering? I think the lives of all of these innocent children should be more than enough for people to stop caring so much about what they’re right is. These children had rights, too. They had the right to grow up, they had the right to live. But that didn’t matter. Enough is enough. And yes the problem is the people, but we can’t control people. What we can control is the things we give and the things that are available. We can’t control people. People are sick. People do sick and demented things. We cannot control that. But we can make it so that it is not possible (or at least not at all easy) for people like that to get a 40 caliber pistol and 100 rounds of ammunition to go and shoot up a school full of first graders. The problem is people, not guns, but we cannot control people, we can, however, control guns. Something needs to change.
I was a sophomore in high school when Parkland happened. I remember feeling so afraid that it would happen to us, and it almost did a month later. A school 30 minutes away from mine had a shooting, someone who I knew died while my school locked down out of fear. We got bomb threats and shooting threats too many times to count in the following months. Every single student who walked out in support of the Parkland victims was suspended, including myself. All we were told was "children should be seen, not heard." And now I fear for my siblings who are in school now, my nieces and nephews, my future kids, my god child. It still isn't over, if not getting worse. And their only solutions are clear backpacks and locker searches
I find it absolutely insane that teachers have to teach their kids what to do if and when this will happen. How utterly tragic of the American government!
its crazy watching this in 2023 when only in may they were more school shootings than they were days we had even had this year so far. im not sure what that statistic is now but i will never forget that. more school shootings than days we had in our year so far, when it was already five months into the year....its absolutely heartbreaking and theres still not much being done abt gun control at all
I was 1 year old, 2 months shy of turning 2 at the time of Columbine, I grew up with occasional lockdown drills, definitely not very frequent. My senior year my school had 2 threats, both on days I was not there. I am now an Aunt to 3 boys and 2 girls, 3 of which are school age and this is a fear I have to deal with every single day
seeing the teacher speak to her own child breaks my heart . i have a almost school age son and a daughter on the way … i cant imagine sending my child to school terrified every day .
Stop Guns in America .
I live in Sweden and I feel so sorry for the students in America all this insecurity that they have when they go to school this its started to be normal with school shooters. God protect all kids in America ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
......pretty sure the students in the US aren't afraid to go to school.
Keep in mind that there is no U.S.A. without a bunch of farmers defeating the United Kingdom (at the time the most powerful nation on the planet) with their guns.
I'll keep my right to defend my family thank you....
@@rodrossi9749what an insensitive comment. I hope that no one you love is ever killed because of some maniac with a gun. You think you can protect your family with your precious 2nd amendment rights. What about when you’re not there and some lunatic is allowed to get a gun.
I hate so much about this.....not least of all that Austin Eubanks passed away. That breaks my heart, he was doing so well.
Wow, as a parent this hurt to watch. Living in the UK I can’t fathom the fear parents & children must feel over there. Broke my heart seeing this, I wish they’d ban guns. Such needless loss of life. It’s bad enough over here with knife crime at the moment, I dare to imagine how much worse it would be if we had access to own guns. My heartfelt condolences to all affected by these horrible shootings 😢
........just think, without a bunch of Farmers with guns we'd still be paying taxes to the King. Sorry, no thanks.
OMG RIP Austin. The way he articulated his emotions so vividly, I could tell he was absolutely brilliant. He described it in a way that we could all feel what he was feeling, he made it palpable. God Bless his soul and his family. God Bless all of the victims and families everywhere🙏🏾❤️
What is also unreal, is this was perpetrated by 2 people, which never occurred afterwards regarding mass shootings.
Rip to all the victims
Not necessarily but in america yes, that’s true. We gotta do better 💔
It happened before. I remember reading a book a long time ago that talked about an incident with two shooters. If I recall it was called Before Columbine. The 1998 Westside Middle School shooting in Arkansas with Mitchell Johnson 13 at the time and Andrew Golden 11 at the time fatally shot four students and a teacher and wounded 10 others. That predates Columbine by a little over a year.
No dude, there was another school shooting where 2 were involved. One was a trangender male and the other had pink hair but they didnt get media attention cause one was a minor and the other got taking out quick by another student.
@@nmstrangerI have a vague memory of hearing about that shooting as a kid, like hearing the name Jonesboro, Arkansas years later made me remember it.
Why are we even having this conversation 20years later?
wow!! a wake up call for the mental health of our country!!
When the former Red Lake teacher said,
"Those people don't exist anymore."
This really broke my heart into pieces.
All of them were tragedies, and the fact we are having more of them is a shame. Nobody takes actual action. Society just ignores. Sad life.
It's tragic, shameful too, how Columbine was allowed to become the catalyst for a whole new wave of school shootings, as opposed to what Columbine-like attacks in other countries brought about. Australia + the UK, for example, following tragic attacks they suffered steps were taken to prevent any similar events from happening again + they practically eliminated the threat by doing so.
The UK has not had another school shooting since 1996, when 16 school kids were shot dead in Dunblane, not a single similar attack has taken place. Not only that, gun violence in general is rare + the reason for that is obvious, gun violence is NOT a complex issue, the solution is plain + simple.
No Guns = No Gun Violence, how simple could it possibly be?!?!?!?
However, as simple as that might be, you quite literally will never see any such thing being seriously discussed in the US. The one, true answer to the problem of all the gun violence may as well not exist for all the consideration it gets.
The ridiculous notion of predicting future behaviour of individuals, is often talked about, it was in this film, but it's laughable to even suggest something we're not even close to being able to do.
It really is hard to believe that identifying future mass-shooters before they even pick up a gun, is taken seriously when gun violence is being discussed + maybe it's no surprise these discussions are always meaningless, frivolous wastes of time. Sci-fi fantasy is given the time of day, the actual solution to the problem, however, never even gets a mention.
The reason for that is no secret, it's all about the US mindset that they couldn't possibly give up their guns, unlike everyone else, when they are in fact no different at all + just like everyone else they have no need to own a gun, no need at all.
That is what it's all about, it's not about taking guns out the hands of criminals, it's all about taking guns out of the hands of those who have need of them, that's the answer.
Americans don't need their guns any more than anyone else, they don't, there's no justification for it, no credible argument + to be frank, the value US society in general places on guns they have no need of + can't justify, is disgusting.
The guns they love so much, that infest their communities, only bring crime + violence, they offer nothing remotely positive yet giving them up is treated like a hardship, an injustice........ Who are you kidding?!?!?
Uvalde, 19 school kids shot dead, how many next time, I wonder????
I also wonder when are you going to do something about it?????
Then I remember, America loves its guns.......... What a joke, you talk about the Constitution + owning guns as a right, how about going to school without being shot, is that not a right????
Not in the US, apparently it isn't, neither is going to church, the mall, the movie-theatre.......
The right to own a gun doesn't seem to be important anywhere else, they're not fighting for the right to do so any place I know of?....?.......?........
Most voting Americans are pro-gun + kid themselves they're nothing to do with any of the bloodshed their beloved guns bring about........... They are, though, every gun owner in the US is partly responsible, not just the criminals.
Let me be clear before I go, guns have no place in any modern society, aside from a small minority that do exist, those with a genuine need to own a weapon (law-enforcement, security services, hitmen, etc....).
Taking guns out of the hands of criminals is Not the answer, taking them out of the hands of those who don't need them, IS.
So, never mind everyone else, what about YOU?!£^*
I agree with you this 2nd amendment rights needs to go!
I am a teacher in Australia, I can't even begin to imagine teaching in a school in the USA with the threat of being shot at work. No thanks.
.......the US ranks 28th in gun related deaths, of which over 60 % are suicide. Being a "teacher" you might want to become more informed.
You’re exponentially more likely to die driving to school in Australia than you are in a school shootjng in the USA. Yet I doubt you deeply worry about driving. See how irrational you’re being?
If you’re going to be an effective educator, the first step is focusing on the facts and not letting your emotions run your life.
Thanks for posting this documentary. It's hard to watch but I feel it's extremely necessary and important ❤
Well said
I’m from Connecticut. Born and raised and still live here. When Sandy Hook happened I was around the same age the victims were. I was 6 years old in 1st grade. I remember it being such a terrifying time, because I was also in school at the same time, and recall thinking the same thing was gonna happen to my school as well. But I can’t imagine how terrifying it is to actual WITNESS and go through what it’s like. It’s so heartbreaking to think about.
I have been so angry over every mass shooting that has occurred, but nothing would comprehend how much more anger I would feel when I personally knew the teacher who was shot at Oxford HS in MI. I wrote to Congress. No more children should lose their life! Brain health is very important to recognize in this country. Don't underline its severity. America needs to give a lot more and not by waving guns around either! Time for a permanent change! Stop ✋️ the madness!!!!
What specific changes would you make? Just yelling into the sky saying we need change doesn’t cut it.
Having served in the army, and been in combat I have seen the damage that firearms can do. Now I live in a country that has very strict gunlaws, but we have also had in total seven school shootings. But in the USA in the 20th century alone, there have been 346 school shootings. And if you go back to the 19th century there have been over 500. You can not blame firearms for this, it has to be something in the mindset of the population.
37:15 these kids doing a lockdown drill is one of the most heart breaking things i have ever seen.
and i did 3 tours in the middle east.
I was a senior in high school on April 20, 1999. How our diplomats can speak, with no shame, to any world leader whose country has common sense gun regulations about anything, is *completely* beyond me.
The frustration, sadness & anger over the lack of action on behalf of the American government & the NRA to actively & effectively work toward a legitimate solution to end not only school or mass shootings but gun violence in general is not exclusive to the US. It's worldwide.
With ❤from Australia to all victims, their families & friends & those who want an end to this wasteful & pointless violence.
@yoshiwoollyworldI think you read it wrong. If you take another look you'll see that I said the frustration, sadness & anger toward those in the US that have the power to initiate the necessary changes to prevent more shootings is felt worldwide, not jsut in the US. An easy mistake to make though. Stay safe.❤
I was friends with someone who was in school during a mass shooting, and trying to get in contact with them was one of the hardest things I've ever dealt with. They messaged me back hours later letting me know that they were ok and safe, but shaken up. I've been in one lockdown in middle school when there was an active shooter in the area of my school, and that stuck with me too. I don't even go to the movies anymore and haven't since 2018. Mass shootings affect everyone, and change needs to happen.
I Hope that the Young Generation will reach their Goals and find a solution to make the schools and the society safer
It's kind of unsettling listening to the voices of young children talk about their plan to survive in the event of a mass shooter. After feeling confused and then enraged by the idea, I suddenly realized how easily neive I am to think that evil has no wherewithal to develop and adapt.
*INCREDIBLY IN LATIN AMERICA these tragedies hardly happens. Here there crimes among gangs BUT ALMOST NEVER Shootings to Children or Youngs at schools or institutes or universities😮* Blessings to those poor families 🙏❤️
They happen in Mexico
@@OneAdam12Adamas long as I know the only fatal one in Mexico was in my home city (Monterrey), only two deaths were accounted for, one teacher and one student (the perpetrator). A cousin of mine attended that school and was in class the day of the shooting, it was a horrible moment for my family 😢
this was so heartwrenching to watch but these kind of documentarys are necessary.
Rest In Peace Austin Eubanks and the 13 others and all that die in school violence
Thinking a school is safe because they have more metal detectors is so worrying. It’s scary they were already at a point where shootings were so common that precautions like that felt safe not alarming
One thing I never really thought about until now, growing up alongside these events. After every year graduation I had I used to think "man im lucky that my schools never had a school shooter" and I didnt think anything was unusual about that thought until I realized, I shouldnt have to be lucky. That shouldve been the furthest thing from my mind. Yet still every drill and lockdown I was scared. These things should be a rare occurrence, But now like me, kids around the US are scared even if theyve never been near an event. Change needs to happen.
Mass shootings affects everyone. When I’m out in public , I also find myself looking for exit routes and being extra aware of my surroundings. We practiced drills when I was in highshool and it was scary. We hid in the closet during the drill and I instantly started to imagine how all of the victims felt during those school shootings . It was just an uneasy feeling.
It's good to teach the kids to protect themselves BUT doesn't solve the problem. The parents and students should be on the streets until the politicians take you seriously and really do something drastic to protect these kids! Children shouldn't have to worry about getting shot at school!
What should be done? Be specific. Just yelling into the sky for politicians to do something is a bad way to be. It allows politicians to take advantage of you to get your vote.
I'm from a small town in Newfoundland, Canada and I remember we had an active shooter in September of 2022 and I was sick over it. Could not believe what was happening, the fact that my niece had to live through something so scary (although it was thankfully minor). All my US friends practically mocked me for being so upset and scared, and that was when I really experienced firsthand how messed up the world is. The response was all "this is every day in America" "what is the big deal?" blah blah, as if that makes it okay. SO sad.
Stop trying to make this about you
I was in high school when Sandy hook happened. We had a real lock down at my school, thankfully it was a false alarm, but it was absolutely terrifying. Last year I was working in an elementary school and was holding a small group with K-3 kids during lunch. We had a lock down during our group and I had to hide under a table with 10 crying babies, little tiny children. I had to put away my own fears, my knowledge that this is a reality, and try to calm those kids because if they cried to loud it could draw a gunman to our location. One 3rd grader told me her mom wouldn’t buy her light up shoes because it could give away her position or movement in the even of a shooting. It’s disgusting that any adults try to put their wants above the safety, welfare, safety, mental and physical well-being of our most vulnerable citizens and the future of our country and of man kind. These kids are going to change the world!