Yeah my school recently had a school shooting threat and we still had to go, I remember discussing an escape root with my friends during passing period because we believed it would happen. It didnt, thank goodness, but there was another school in our city that was shot up because it was also threatened by the same person.
Always makes me cry. I was in high school during Columbine a few miles away then grew up to panicked and anxiety ridden days sending my babies to school. Awful feelings all the way around
We are the most violence-prone country on the planet. We are (per capita) the most heavily armed populace in the world. We have so many mass shootings that only the truly horrific even make the news. We can buy military grade weapons (with little to no background checks) at gun shows and on the 'net. WE NEED BETTER GUN CONTROL.
Scoobs McDoobs I grant that I am a liberal Californian. I must also state that I grew up with over 200 guns in our home. My father was a gun collector. My father also. took me and my siblings target shooting on weekends. I learned very early on how to be safe around firearms and other weaponry. My father also told us that if we wanted to hunt...use a camera, not a gun. I do think I rather succinctly covered which laws need revisiting...gun shows are one of the most blatant ways people get around the gun control we do have. We also have NRA whining about 2nd amendments rights every time a particularly horrible mass-shooting takes place. They say the same thing every time..."we need to wait until the emotion of the moment has died down" knowing full well that people move on to other things. They forget how awful it was to live in the moment of the tragedy. Yes, we do have gun laws on the books. But there are so many work-arounds that most gun laws seems to be useless.
@@amberfuchscia709 For someone to have supposedly been a lifelong gun owner, you're very easily misled on the facts surrounding them. The "gun show loophole" is a myth. The NRA is a useless organization that have helped write every major gun control law on the books, the continual "boogeyman" association they get from your type is honestly hilarious. And I won't respond to everything in that giant wall of text but the 2nd amendment has nothing to do with hunting.
on top of things like bullying and mental illness, the public display of previous mass murderers give inspiration to new killers. most of the school shooters in the past 2 decades have been found to have a profound interest in the true crime community. marilyn manson was one of the first public figures to point this out, speaking about the columbine shooters, that if we give them fame they get what they wanted.
i think it would be a disservice to not also add incel culture and white supremacy in there as well. we can see the two favor each other with incel culture usually being the first step and loneliness can lead people to that mindset with the amount of inspiration they can gather
As someone who has survived a school shooting (IA, East high school) I’m so glad to see how well these men responded to the messages. Rather than just brushing it off as Americans arguing about guns as they tend to do, they were able to see the underlying intentions of the PSA’s, despite a language barrier and difference in culture. Very observant guys, they’re the good type who will hopefully help bring good change to wherever they live now.
@V3RT3X_PINNACLE @V3RT3X_PINNACLE it's newly 2025. So when this person commented, it must've been either 2022 or 2023. Which still fits into the time frame of when the shooting I'm talking about happened. I'm going to an East Highschool that had a shooting in 2022 so I was just wondering.
Is it bad that I’m an American high schooler and I’ve seen all of these PSAs? I remember the first time I watched the 2nd one I was shocked, you can also see in the background that things are going wrong. It honestly send shivers down my spine
@ yah, it’s scary, my school has had at least one close call with shootings and lots of bomb threats, thought those were more because were a Jewish school than anything else. This year I had to pretend to be a shot victim so that we can check the first aid kits during our anual lockdown drill and test our first aid training (grade bonding in 10th grade is and overnight first aid training) I’m Red Cross certified!
I remember watching the first one and picking up on the kid planning the shooting during the first watch through... though it may have been because I was watching a shooting psa comp or something? but I still caught it. Kinda sad how I knew though
It's amazing to watch a different culture react to one of the most horrifying aspects of the US. School shootings are so common here, we have been desensitized to it. 😔
No one said that we are used to it... I will definitely never get used to babies being slaughtered in broad daylight, with a high powered rifle, but we absolutely are desensitized in the way that the entire country gets distracted by stupid political talking points and then just moves on without doing ANYTHING MEANINGFUL AT ALL. Just like all of the other shootings. The so called "thoughts and prayers" from our so called leaders are insulting at this point. I am so fucking tired of this STUPID CYCLE it's disgusting and appalling. I am angry, I am LIVID but I also feel completely helpless to do anything about it, our politicians and the NRA hold us all hostage.
There's a moral decay going on throughout the whole world not just in America. The morale is very low on human life as we see around the world. This also need to be confronted and handled. 🤔
Fr. You see it on the news so often it's like, 'oh that sucks' and move on with life just because it happens so often. Death is just another daily occurrence and even if its children it's just another day.
Bullying is a serious issue, but cannot totally explain the actions of a child that walks into school and shoots everyone in sight. More attention needs to be paid to mental illness in the young with access to real mental health professionals for poor students available.
In my experience, the 'loner kid' usually self isolates and ignores all attempts to reach out to them until other people just stop trying. My middle/high school didn't have much bullying but there were loners
@@Mila-Rosa exactly! ppl don’t realize that a lot of school shooters weren’t just ‘quiet kids who needed friends.’ Most were racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and many were white supremacists. I agree that schools need to better address their mental illness. Instead of ppl just encouraging other students to endanger themselves by reaching out.
@@Mila-Rosa I was the loner and classmates would make fun of me because once one person started it just kind of spread. Most of my friends were special needs as I took the medical aid course so I learned to help and deal w any issues they had daily. I took what happened to me and chose to help those who are more defenseless than me but not everyone reacts to bullying the same way some people break
Yes I heard a story of a young man who was almost a school shooter. One person gave him attention and stopped him and now he's healthy and happy. Instead of just talking about guns. . . Most of these springs were 100% preventable but the school board and community ignored the signs
As an American who went to American high school and went through lockdown drills like everyone else, what I will say about the "quiet kids" is that it mostly refers specifically to kids who don't talk to people and resist social interaction. It's not usually because people won't talk to them. Usually there are already psychosocial issues involved. In my grade, there were probably two kids who were on everyone's radar as "if someone does it..." Thankfully, nothing ever happened, but the year after I graduated, the school went on lockdown because of a threatening note. Two other kids had been bullied (allegedly) for years because they were... weird. Then they abducted and dismembered a dog. They had been arrested, and one kid stayed in jail but the other was bailed out by his mother (the school secretary) and returned to school. Predictably, the bullying worsened-- because who does that?-- and he's the one who wrote the note, although it was determined to be a lie as he didn't actually have any weapons. When mass shootings happen, it's usually kids who already had issues. Bullied kids target their bullies. Mass shooters are out for anyone.
This is such a recent phenomenon. I graduated American high school in 2005 and I've never heard of an active shooter drill. We just had fire and earthquake ones. You younger generations need to treat your peers better!
@@moccalou The first "mass school shooting" happened at Columbine in April of 1999. I started kindergarten that August. I think that makes us both millennials? So were they. You can say "younger generations," but it was our generation that started it all. The mass shootings that occur now are essentially copycats-- kids who are miserable for one reason or another and want to take it out on others. I guess lockdown drills hadn't taken hold nationwide by the time you graduated, but the next mass school shooting was at Virginia Tech in 2007. You say you graduated in 2005, so... wouldn't that be even closer to your age? "Younger generations" my foot. It's not a generational thing-- people have bullied and been bullied since the dawn of time. It's that two kids at Columbine got the idea to massacre their classmates, and now every other psychopath who wants to go out with a bang will try the same crap because it's sensationalized. Being bullied doesn't mean you'll try to murder everybody-- you have to already be in an unhealthy mental state to even consider that, and that's not the responsibility of your classmates.
@@IzzyKawaiichi Yeah, I'm one of the older millennials. Guess I'm talking to gen z. I was in 6th grade during columbine. I remember watching the news in class. I just wanted my shake my cane at the new kids moment. I actually listen to Dylan Klebold"s mother Susan talk about some of these things like suicidality and how you can start devaluing life if you don't care about your own. And I'm sure a bunch of it is social media taking hold in the 2010s. Bullying didn't used to follow you home because there was not a great online presence. You didn't take to Twitter because it didn't exist. There might have been Myspace but a lot of people just ignored it. You'd go on message boards for your one particular interest, and then you'd only add your friends on MSN Messenger, ICQ, and AIM. A lot of it I imagine has to be, yeah, the copycat glorification of the Columbine massacre. But it took technology and the interconnectedness of the entire world to really jump start that kind of glorification and access to media that drew attention to it. Obviously, if there's a lot of bullying going on and it's taken to social media so that the victims don't feel like they're ever free of it unless they do something rash, then I would stand by my conviction that students need to treat their peers better. School faculty need to be more in tune with what's going on, and parents have to actually care and raise their children better as well. A lot of people my age already have kids in elementary school so yeah, millennials need to do better too I guess. Like those parents of Ethan Crumbly. They're probably about my age and they seem like horrible people. Actually, they're probably gen x. Not a lot of 34 year olds have 15 year olds.
These men are hitting the nail on the head with their guesswork and they've likely never even stepped foot in the USA. Very astute and intelligent people.
I grew up in the Philippines and the USA. Never did I watch a school shooting PSA back in the Philippines. We would do fire drills and earthquake drills, but that’s about it. Then, I came here and when I was in 8th grade, that’s when we were all gathered in the school gym and watched the Columbine shooting. That was my first real awakening of gun violence here in the USA. As years pass, there were Virginia Tech Massacre, Sandy Hook, Florida shootings, Las Vegas shooting, and sadly, many more. It is such a huge problem now. I have many friends that are considering home schooling for their kids now. My middle school and HS didn’t even have school gates or high fences when my siblings and I went there. Now, not only are there gate and tall metal fences, there are also police officers assigned there now and K-9 that are patrolling weekly. The US is a beautiful and proud country. When you see us, we smile as a greeting. It’s not a perfect country, but there’s ni such thing as a perfect country.
I have no idea who you are my friend, but that was one of the most touching things I’ve ever read. It’s true that Americans are criticized for how we respond to gun violence and how we respond to stuff in general, but thank you so much for this comment. I’m honestly a little teary eyed rn
same, i used to live in nigeria where he had to do 0 shooting drills. But after my family moved to America and I started school there, my 2nd day in an american school we got a shooting threat and had to go on lockdown mode. I was really shocked and had no idea what was happening the entire time. Still, im glad it was a threat and ddint actually happen. That was my first ever school shooting experience
I love seeing how people react to it. Instead of just brushing it off they took the matter seriously even though it doesn’t really happen in Korea. I think that’s very mature and goes to show that people should be taking things like this as seriously as they do!
@@Ariel-my7lh Americans do take it seriously, I'd say about half of the full population. But there's a lot of republicans in the big offices and politicians in general are corrupt, but mix that with dumb policies, you get a dangerous situation. Same with the abortion laws, people are dying from that. So, the question is with cases like this, how many more people have to die for this to be stopped? America, as a person who lives here, is considered the richest country, but it's so wealthy because of how corrupt it is. It's definitely better than some countries, but the wide majority are so uneducated that they vote for someone, not only the president but governor of their state, mayors, etc. based off of things they know nothing about. For example, West Virginia is considered the most behind education wise out of all 50 states. I've seen interviews and they think the president has control over the economy. Like one term would change around the economy and make them live an easy life. Which isn't true, there are many contributing factors. And also, the second amendment is "the right to bear arms" which means you can legally carry a weapon. Patriotism is a hug thing in America, and so are guns, it's engraved in our history. A lot of people here hunt. There's also the "stand your ground law" which means people can shoot someone if they're on their property, with some restrictions, of course. So, people feel that taking away those rights, would "take away their freedom", some people view it as fascist or communism in extreme ignorance situations. So, it's hard to just take away guns with so many people who "love" them, and the way that are system is set up, each state has the right to make their own laws and ban them (to a certain extent). Also, taking away guns doesn't mean people still won't get their hands on them if they really wanted to, and some Americans really want to.
@@Ariel-my7lhguns can’t just be banned. The amendments are the reason we can even have them. The problem is that it’s way too easy to access and get them now.
@@Ariel-my7lh this lmao. "We know kids are getting shot dead at schools but hey here's 1864832 bullshit reasons why we can't ban guns!" If anything I take it seriously because it's just absurd. Dystopian.
@@Ariel-my7lhBanning guns is a ridiculous idea. You realize the people doing bad things with guns will just find ways to get them in other ways, leaving the people who are obeying the law without protection, right?
It’s odd for both sides here. I’m from America and watching two people, not know about (or not really understand the implications) things that I have to think about every day when I go to school shocks me. it is constantly in the back of my mind. Any loud noise makes everyone turn. A kid popped a milk carton and kid started screaming and running because they thought it was a gunshot. there are people who recommend their children to get bulletproof backpacks, which is a thing you can get in the US because of this. 4300 children are killed each year in school shootings in the US. I am expected to know how to defend myself. There are teachers who put their lives on the lines to save their students/are expected to sacrifice everything for the people they teach. A minimum wage job should not come with the added risk of death. This year we have had two bomb threats and one shooting threat to my school. The school shooting threat was made via kid on the suicide hotline. We only got the notice that this could happen at the end of seventh period (8 periods in total). We didn’t have service in our school so we couldn’t contact our parents, we were scared shitless for our lives. Thankfully, everything was fine and that kid was detained, but it was terrifying. This has happened at least once a year for the past 4 to 7 years years for me. I had school shooting threats when I was in elementary school, how do you tell a 10 year old kid that they could die right alongside their friend in that moment? You can’t.
Im a high school student in the US. These issues are absolutely serious. About a month or two ago someone brought a loaded pistol to my high school. Yesterday someone brought a loaded gun to a middle school about 5 miles from my house. They were even prepared with a hit-list. Today threats were made to my high school. They said that the school will be bombed about an hour and a half from now. Today is the last day of my high school career and I have to live through it terrified. We need help.
Honestly I thought you were talking abt the high school near me because every thing you said sounded familiar but then I saw the time and it isn’t the same as when it happened. It was the first day of high school that kids got a bomb threat :,)
Yeah, my high school's had multiple shooting and bomb threats this year, including one on Homecoming, and last year a kid was caught with a handgun on campus. It's a very real thing
Yah, my school has gotten multiple bomb threats, I go to a Jewish school and we have security but there have been instances where people drive up to the school asking if this is the Jewish school in the area and then are discovered to have multiple loaded guns in their car. We had a lockdown drill and I was a person who had to simulate being shot because they had to check the medical supplies and see if enough kids know first aid. On that note, we do a grade level bonding at the beginning of sophomore year and the entire time is dedicated to learning first aid in case of an emergency
I'm watching this after the Uvalde tragedy...this is a REAL problem here in the states, a true nightmare. I'm a mommy of two boys that are still too young for school...
Mass shootings in america doesn’t just happen in schools. It pretty much happens everywhere, grocery stores, malls, movie theaters, churches, etc…you literally could be at the store just to buy something like a pack of gum and end up as a victim of a mass shooting in a split second. And that’s because you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time by chance.
It's the prevalence of guns with no purpose except to kill people and assault rifles which kill masses of people. That's why you don't see these kinds of incidents in Korea.
A lot of it is people in general don’t know how to act civilized towards each other, few people are taught respect or how to actually be kind but also fewer are taught to take accountability for their own actions so when they screw up they take it out on others rather than own up to mistakes and fix them, honestly it’s largely a parenting issue as it start there
Yea, its definetly a human issue as much as a gun issue. Take germany for example, guns are legal but you have to have a licence in order to purchase one and you have to go to a specific gun shop to find hunting rifles and such. But germany takes great importance to mental health as well, it doesn't cost much anything to get a decent therapist to talk to and the free heathcare makes it much easier to be admitted for mental health reasons. Overall, they make it easier to get help as well as harder to get guns. Thats why you dont hear about shootings there.
@@imperialwhovian3461 If you look at the vast majority of school shooting cases, it's not about "not being taught how to be civilized" is abuse, neglect, bullying from peers, online persuasion. Parents going through a divorce and the child's mental health being neglected is one case I've heard of in a shooting. It is a parenting issue, but not in the way you think it is. These crimes aren't that simple and making it out to be a generational issue of kids now being selfish or brats, which is what I personally think you implicated correct me if I'm wrong, is not correct. The real issue isn't the firearms, but taking away such a deadly weapon would help crimes go down all around, you can't prevent every person from using a gun, so why just not eradicate the possibility all together so no more people die? In places like Australia and the UK that banned guns off of one incident, the US has let many many many, happen. Taking away guns, with the extra plus of more accessible therapy options would help combat this issue. There's a reason certain weapons aren't allowed to the public, like bombs, guns are pretty much the same thing and can have the capability to kill dozens of people in under a minute. That's as dangerous as a bomb.
I was in high school during Columbine... My friends in college during Virginia Tech... My kids were in Elementary during Sandy Hook... My kids are in highschool and college... Uvalde... Nothing changes.
Some people say it's propaganda, but for me who live in country that have same law like these two gents, it is actually proper way to raise other's awareness about the social isolation other person might had endured. Problem is do you care to talk with silent kid in the back seat? XD
@@IzzyKawaiichi Nobody hates everyone for no reason - there's always a source. In some of these kids, the source is exactly the fact that no one will talk to them. They feel neglected and angry because no one wants them around - which of course is a vicious cycle.
@@IzzyKawaiichi We all have been teenagers once. You know about the kids that were picked on or bullied because they are different. It's even worse because of access to social media. I can only teach my children to be kind. They don't have to necessarily speak to some shy kid, but they wouldn't bully or mistreat someone.
@@ellenjones7819 Yes, there are plenty of kids who were picked on or bullied, but it takes certain kinds of internal issues to decide to shoot up a school. Those issues won't be resolved by people talking to them.
Should have done the "this is your brain on drugs" egg video. There's the fried egg video and the one about heroin where the girl destroys the kitchen.
I'm a quiet kid myself I barely have any friends myself but I kinda think that's how we want to stay. It's also really hard to interact with people I will tell you though when people talk to me I get quite happy.
As a middle schooler in the US, i personally think the biggest problem is not bullying or neglect (although that is usually one of the biggest factors) but people's access to guns. If someone doesnt have access to a gun, they cant do a school shooting, simple as that, but if the adults around thsm are careless with their guns or give the kid a gun, (not to long ago a man was arrested for giving his son a who preformed a school shooting a gun, even though he had displayed signs of violence in the past) then they can get do a school shooting. So, i think bullying isnt the largest problem, but access is.
Dang. I was only in 6th grade when Columbine happened. I'm glad that it took so many more years for things to get really bad because by the time I got out of high school in 2005, there still weren't active shooter drills or anything to make us feel unsafe. I feel bad for kids nowadays. But I also wonder why there are so many messed up kids in the first place. The workplace shootings and violence haven't gone up. Why school? Too many glorified attention-seeking Columbine copycats? Too much mental illness? Too much access to disturbing information? Who knows.
As the guys in this vid pointed out...this doesn't happen in most civilized countries like South Korea, because all guns are banned... In addition, these same countries, like South Korea, have free healthcare, including mental health issues treatments.
@@radbunnie2297 No, I think it's messed up how many young kids have gotten killed just these past couple of years while going to school. And that we charge kids for basic lunch during an 8 hr school day when other countries give it for FREE. Or that we're only one of TWO countries in the entire world that do not promise mothers leave after giving birth, most are expected to work up till their due date, and be back to work asap, leaving their one or two week old babies with complete strangers at a daycare. OR that we let folks die in their homes every day because they cannot afford their neccessary prescription drugs...something that again, is covered in European & Asian countries...HECK even many African & South American countries make sure citizens all have access to basic healthcare. Let me continue: We bury students in school debt, something that all the places I listed above also realized is a dumb thing to do, imagine strapping 44 MILLION 18 year olds with six figure debt THAT the government collects interest rates on for their lifetimes. We even have govenors & officials in DC with stocks & investments tied up in the companies that handle student debt! Not even getting into the fact that water across the US is becoming more & more undrinkable, not just Flint, (WHICH still isn't fixed!) look into Phily, or Pittsburgh, or Milwaukee, or even many small towns across the US, many are having issues with providing basic clean water to citizens. Just top off this list with a housing crisis, an abismal minimum wage that isn't AT ALL livable for anyone, Lack of guaranteed vacation time( SEPERATE from maternal leave- again, almost every country besides us has this, too!), government corruption, ( we literally had a terrorist attack on our nation's capitol a little over a year ago with multiple casualties), rampant racism- especially amongst our police force, women's rights being rolled back in MULTIPLE states, MULTIPlE STATES making new laws allowing people to commit hate crimes against LGBTQ folks, oh and... THE LARGEST PRISON POPULATION ON EARTH, many of whom are paid pennies a day to make goods in America, including things like furniture for our officials in DC. 😑 I dunno, sounds like a God awful country. Wish more Americans could afford to travel so they could see just how bad they have it here...but most can't because we're all wage slaves strapped with decades of debt...🙄 (Also multiple economists around the world have pointd out that the US is likely to collapse in the next couple of decades, and that other countries need to prep for folks trying to flee/immigrate. Good grief)..🤭
Someone brought a gun to my school for a week and no one noticed the only reason anyone found out was bc a teacher got a tip from a student who saw it. So school got closed on picture day and it would have been the best time for a school shooting bc everyone is in the same area. It actually scared me knowing that on that day it could have been my last day too.
Not the same but I did a similar thing with very strong pain killers I got after I twisted my ankle. After I got my cast off I decided to carry them around to see if anyone would stop me. I made it two years, drug dogs, teacher checks. No one found em. I didn't hide them either, they were literally in my front pocket.
it's so weird to me that not all countries makes their school students do lockdown drills and stuff. Like there is this forigne girl in my class and she was shook during one of them and was confused when everyoen else was like it is the most normal thing in the world.
6:49 I used to make jokes about “quiet kids”…until there was a school shooting about 10 miles from my school. Six people died. Having the afternoon announcements changed from usual boring school stuff to protection techniques changed my perspective on everything.
It's sad that PSA's about shooting in school have become the norm. Just this week, 19 children in elementary school, plus 2 adults lost their lives after a guy entered the school and began shooting.
I took these videos at face value, not as propaganda bc I didn't know they were political messages about banning guns and, most likely, neither did these guys. I think that's why they were able to hit the mark and respond to the HUMAN issue and not the GUN issue ... which was spot on, btw.
You do know that bullying is a problem in korean schools, thus their conclusion. They relate to it more than the “gun issues”. It’s really is both a gun issue and a human issue.
Guns do not shoot themselves. Even if there’s a bullying issue, which there is EVERYWHERE in the world, the only country that suffers mass shootings is the US. It’s tragic. But since nobody cares about the people dying, lemme say it to the effect that these egomaniacs can understand: it’s embarrassing.
It’s not about the guns. It’s about the fact children are dying and the government can either provide funding to make schools safe, or make guns harder to get if you don’t need one. No one says “ban guns”. But there are common sense practices that could be in place that aren’t, such as requiring a mental and physical health check as well as training for someone to own one, and ensuring people properly store them away from children.
We definitely need to tackle the gun issue though. The human issue is insanely intangible and perhaps unfixable for a long time, it will take a ton of social and cultural change in America. But we can be tougher on guns in the now and prevent ease of access now and later on into the future. A person shouldn't be able to just go buy a mass murder weapon, keep those at gun ranges. And even pistols should be insanely tough to get and a long long long process with a ton of background information.
Every school has their little klicks & snobs as we called them back in the day. If someone is quiet & doesn't talk to many people, how many of you will take the time to talk to them first instead of waiting for them to talk to you first. How many kids are very shy or feel unaccepted? It's time to stop the bullies and act like they had nothing to do with making somebody feel worthless. Kids can be CRUEL, more so than adults because adults think about how to treat other people.
I'm a teacher in the US but didn't grow up here. My first year I was surprised to know that elementary schools in the US practice what to do in a case of school shooting. But then last year our school had a lockdown because of a school shooting at the high school next to our elementary school, and I was so glad that my little 8 year olds knew what to do. The kids who I could not keep quiet for 5 minutes during instruction were silent for almost an hour. It broke my heart that they have to go through that though. 😢😢😢
School shootings are often talked about from 2013-2022 there has been more than 800 school shooting and more than 200 deaths across the U.S. so yes this is a big problem in the U.S. but there are controversies against gun control and a huge debate about it.
Last year, my middle school had bomb threats, weed circulating, 2 fires, over 2 dozen fights, threatened school shootings, attempted kidnaping, and my state is still over the 30 safest states. Please help, I have to go back to that school again this year, I’m scared, what if I’m not one who survives this time, please, please, please help, help the teachers and the kids. I don’t want to die nor do I want my future kids to be scared like me right now.
I will never be more terrified than the time my school went on a soft lockdown. There were so many parents picking up their kids that there was a line out the main entrance.
Something similar happened to me on Election Day and we went into lockdown because of a threat. I was horrified. And even the police said to the superintendent that it’s not safe to have school on Election Day but here we are.
Same happened here. We had cops with dogs all over my school in fifth grade because someone left a threat on the wall of the local middle school, and the middle school was evacuated (the district elementary schools just had police everywhere). When I got to that middle school the next year they updated their lockdown drills to be more effective and the principal would walk around and pound on the doors to check if they were locked. I remember right after one of the really bad shootings we had a drill and I nearly threw up from crying
I dont think it helps the situation when we make kids fear the 'quiet kids', some kids are simply introverts. Imagine getting labeled as someone who'd be a school shooter when all that you really are is a kid who's abit shy and reserved. I think that'd make the kid more likely to harbour resentment for the school
I went to American high school from 2018-2022 and we had to do lockdown (school shooter) drills monthly. Every classroom had a yellow paper that identified the “safe corner” (the one most out of view from doors and windows) and teachers would go over things to grab for self defense. My chorus teacher would always grab the fire extinguisher, my history teacher had a hammer in her desk, we had agreed who would have scissors/chairs/etc. Every door window had to have an emergency cover that could be pulled down to block off the view. Also we did take note of the “quiet kids.” There were usually at 2-3 people every year that we kept a close eye on because they would be the most likely. At one point I had to go to the office because one of the quiet kids had told me I was on his “safe list” (of people not to shoot) because I was kind to him. He was already showing some alarming signs beforehand such as dressing in military uniforms to school (American and North Korean), making random riot gear, pretty much running a training course through the hallway and literally scaling the walls and vending machines (he really liked parkour and was dedicated). Someone else I know personally said they had packed the weapon then unpacked it because of how their friends would feel. I reported it and they got psych help. It is a very real issue.
The last part of the second PSA gets me every time no matter how many times I’ve seen it, I think they do a great job with the music change too and the fact the kids are smiling is so unnerving
I graduated high school in 2020. I went through approximately 5 real shooter lockdowns and countless shooter drills. We started doing these drills in elementary. It’s scary to think that you might die every time you go to school. We have a problem with bullying but it’s also a mental problem. People have broken home lives and shitty parents. All problems stem at home. Racism, homophobia, and just hatred towards people are learned behaviors. As a society and humans we have to learn empathy and respect for all humans. Regardless of their beliefs and background, we have to accept each other. Maybe one day we’ll have a more understanding society.
Ya'll prob gonna get some hate for this, but I appreciate the video. Ofc these videos each have a set narrative they're supporting and a lot of American's get fired up about the gun debate from all sides. I will say that it's interesting seeing the reactions from other people who don't have the same gun laws as us see how different it is. Regardless of peoples' opinions on the matter, school shootings and accidental shootings with unsecured weapons that are accessible to minors is a real issue here that people like to ignore for some reason.
Don't forget the weapons in the hands of drunk or otherwise impaired people. My grand daughter's classmate was shot and killed by his own father who was playing with a gun. 7 years old. I have plenty of firearms and no one can access them but me. My husband has mental issues and he doesn't even know where they are - and that is as it should be.
@@mayhemacres725 I'm sorry to hear that. Lost my two cousins the same way. My fire arms are hidden away from my own father as he has suicidal and violent tendencies.
I've never been through a shooting but once my school has been on a list but luckily the person who made it got arrested, the first time I have heard of gun violence was during the Uvalde shooting (i was in elementary btw) now as a middle schooler, my heart goes out to those who have been through or died in a shooting. God bless them
It’s weird to say it’s so common here. I have an escape plan for all my periods. There was a school shooting down the street and we went in lockdown for like three hours
These issues are so serious and its the fact of how poorly guarded our schools truly are. I recently graduated middle school last year and im a freshman in highschool rn. I kid you not maybe a while into my freshman year somebody told me that somebody was caught with a gun at my old middle school, she didn't attend the school snd was DEFINITELY not the students age and was going to target a student, ig it was over a fight that might've happened with somebody they know that goes there, eitherway a teacher had to tackle her before she fired the gun. I couldn't imagine how I'd feel if she had fired the gun and it had injured someone. It doesn't help that the school im going to rn found someone with a gun in their bag JUST last year. It gets to a point ahere its not about bullying anymore but simply just mental health, bcuz you are truly not alright in the head if you think its a good idea to go to a middle school disguised as a student to shoot an ACTUAL child over a petty fight, or just bringing a gun to school in general. Mental health seriously needs to be focused on more bcuz they're starting to happen more frequently simply bcuz the shooter wants to be the next big sensation or they want to settle some beef with a singular bullet..
It’s not really about “guarding” schools. It’s just that normal countries like here in Japan ban guns and violent Americans have the “freedom” to shoot each other with guns. That is the difference.
@@BrilliantHandle that's why I mentioned guarding schools. It's almost impossible to fully ban guns in the US after so long, I feel if other countries didn't ban the ownership of guns then they'd be having the same problems bcuz everywhere there are violent ppl, it's just that the US has the unfortunate circumstances that allow such easy access to firearms. Since this is such big problem here and has been for a while now, it would make sense that schools should be gaurded like how they guard the president.
The reality is that Americans want this to be our children's lives. It doesn't have to be this way, but its the result of policy choices that say access to an assault weapon is more important that children's safety.
my school almost got shot up before christmas break and the only reason it didn't is because a kid snitched on the other kid who had the gun. The kid with the guy had a list of names and everything, it's so sad these are things we have to fear everyday and plan for I came to learn not to fear for my life everyday because some guy with mental health issues decided he had enough and wanted to take people with him.
i remember my school had a lock down once. i thought it was a drill, but apparently at this new school the tell you ahead of time if it is. i remember a kid grabbing a lamp so it didn’t hit the floor and everyone silently cheering. i remember seeing the happiest kids and the mean kids all crying, texting parents. i was confused. i took a nap. it ended up being an accident, the secretary accidentally hit the alarm. there was a german exchange student there, it was their first day. rough.
As an American the second PSA always gets me choked up and it's even more emotion-inducing just cause of the sheer whiplash you get on your first watch. IDK how it is for other countries but for those who aren’t familiar with American advertisements this PSA is structured and filmed EXACTLY like a “back to school” ad to the point that when it's your first time watching it you genuinely are under the impression that its an idk Target advertisement or something and then your heart sinks, especially when the last girl shows up because you know that throughout your entire school experience, you can’t recount the number of times you’ve imagined yourself and been told countless stories of people who have been in her shoes. I’m not even exaggerating I remember having conversations with my classmates about what we would do if someone came into the school and we were stuck in the bathrooms, we were in 4th grade. I am now in highschool not only that I go to a BIG high school and with every passing day I walk through a metal detector reminded of the ever growing pile of threats made and the fear only grows. Being a student in America feels like a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. That one day you’ll go to school and in the weeks after your family will be receiving “thoughts and prayers”. I can’t wait to graduate.
Four days ago there was a school shooting 15 miles from me. He was a popular senior that played football. Three injured, two were faculty and the resource officer (in 90% of US schools, usually from 6th grade age 11 until you graduate, we now have a Police Officer at the school all day) This officer shot the student but he is not dead. Amazing and appalling to think there is a shootout at a high school. In September a student was at school with a loaded gun in the town I live in. Someone told and it was “taken care of”. I don’t understand the need for all of these guns in the US. It is scary to me. Shootings daily. The gun owners say people want to take away their rights. I can tell you the people that have died have def lost all of their rights. *** In 2007 a 23 year old South Korean student killed 32 people at Virginia Tech University where he went to school. His parents had immigrated to the US when he was 10. I’m not naming him, you can always find the article. It brings up Being a product of your environment. As always the guys in black had amazing reactions!
What is happening in Ukraine is exactly why we don’t want to give our guns up, but also have you thought that if parents actually taught their kids about firearms safety and raised their kids to be accountable and responsible that maybe that would solve many of these problems? If you don’t solve the issues with people themselves it doesn’t matter what you take away they will still cause harm
@@imperialwhovian3461 Citizens of Ukraine were armed after the invasion started. Also, how do you plan on making parents more responsible in order to control our public health crisis?
Last year there was a shooting at one of the county fairs in Ohio. I know because I was there, 30 minutes before it happened. My friends that were there heard gunshots, i think it was a few kids that were pissed off at each other or something. the fucking fair board LIED that there weren't any guns involved and that it all happened outside of the gate. the fact we left 30 minutes before it happened tells me that there was some sort of divine intervention because it happened on the midway by one of the rides. My point being: it's not just schools. it's everywhere. nowhere is safe, if someone wants to shoot other people they will.
a few months ago, there was a shooter at an elementary school I used to go to, but it was like an hour before school actually started, so that was good that no one was there, because my friend goes there and I’ve been friends with her for such a long time and I wouldn’t wanna loose her.
You know.. for as long as I’ve lived here in the US and gone from Head Start all the way up to High School, I don’t think I’ve ever seen commercials like these. My High School once had a bomb threat from a female student who swore it was a joke but the school didn’t tolerate it and legit called DHS (Department of Homeland Security) to investigate/monitor. I don’t even know how many DHS agent were at the school but I do know from personal experience that on every floor (The main school building had 3 floors and the newly added building had 2 floors) there was ALWAYS an agent at the top of the stair case of each floor watching over everyone that walked by. They even had a couple agents walking up and down the sidewalk where the buses parked to load up or drop off the high schoolers. The agents legit looked like characters out of the Matrix movies. Shades/glasses, black long coats, and that clear ear piece with the wire leading down to their walkie-talkie.
Watching this after the recent shooting that took place in Wisconsin. I'm an hour away from where the Oxford shooting happened. I had to go into a lockdown at my Elementary during lunch because of an armed gunman who robbed a nearby bank. I've had to go into lockdowns at my middle school because of people shooting their families in their homes nearby, a police chase where the suspect, who was armed, crashed into someone's garage nearby, someone brought a loaded BB gun to the school, someone else brought a large knife. My high school had a lockdown during after-school activities because of a shooting from a drug deal gone wrong. Those who shot were students that had the guns in their backpacks that day. Gun violence in the US needs to be stopped. I fear for my life whenever my school does the unexpected lockdown drills. It terrifies me because guns are so easily available to the wrong people, and as a Type 1 diabetic with a loud insulin pump, I'm afraid the real-deal is going to happen one day and that my pump is going to get me and my class killed if it beeps at me. I go to a school that's been teaching us to stack desks in front of the classroom doors during lockdowns, a plan to run if the person gets in, and how to fight if that person gets in. We have plans, but they might not be helpful when a real situation happens since we're all teenagers that will probably panic, I know I would. Violence with weapons, guns, threats, etc in the US needs to stop. Its horrifying how I have to make a plan to either hide myself or be ready to fight or die fighting from someone who intends to kill.
@@MoLester-q8w Yea, it was sad that I had to go through that in elementary. I still worry about it all the time in high school, its sad in general that I'm not the only one that worries about these things.
the second one is pretty accurate. I remember being taught in third grade that if an intruder got into the classroom to throw your school supplies at them.
The second one always brings me to tears at the end with the girl wIth the phone I cannot imagine not knowing if that would be the last time I saw my mom and it terrifies me how someone can take a life without a second thought of who loves me and what I could grow up to be
I'm still in high school, and I thought about going virtual because there were so many school shootings happening all at once. I did not go virtual because I would rather die with my friends than be all alone, and I have this fear of shootings all the time. Even if it's not happening as much now. I'm even afraid to go to Walmart or the mall anymore because they do shootings in big populated areas.
Fun fact about UK PSAs. A lot of PSA directors in the 1970’s used film students who took inspiration from western horror films in order to make these horrifying and downright scary PSAs, and since they were deemed educational, these films could be a lot more graphic and darker than the standard rated R movies in the film industry and weren’t censored that much.
When I watch this video I thought that school shootings happen everywhere and they were normal but now watching this it hit me that they are not normal and very rare in other countries.
All of these same problems happened when I was in school 30+ years ago and there were no school shootings. Because we didn't have children and teenagers with easy access to the types weapons that only soldiers should have.
My son is 12 and i have had to have talks with him about what to do in the event of a school shooting. It is very surreal and difficult to have these talks but with the way things are here in the us you have to. I started them when he was in elementary because it has happened in a few elementary schools. Hes had shooting drills since he was 5 years old. I cant explain how difficult it is to teach an at the time 10 year old what to do if he gets shot. To not say anything if hes in a shooting and someone yells if anyone is in the room or that its the police. To stay hidden and quiet as long as possible. How to stop the bleeding in the event him or his friend is shot. I shouldnt have to explain these things to a child. But parents who lose their children to this some of them may have lived if they knew some of these things. There was one a child who heard "is anyone in there its the police" from an officer outside she said yes but the gunman was in her room she was then shot and killed because of this. She was probably no more than 10 years old. It is sad that this is where we are. That i have to send my child to school everyday with this being a thought in the back of my mind. Will this be the last time i see him. Will his school be the next school in the news. Will he lose his friends to something like this. Its truly heartbreaking that this is where we are at in America.
It’s so fascinating to see people outside the U.S. react to these PSAs as it’s just a part of life here growing up. Though (thank god) I’ve never experienced a shooting, I’ve done plenty of drills. One day in PE in middle school, we had to do a lockdown drill. The whole lesson that day was planned around what to do in a shooting. We learned to run in zig zag motions because it’s harder for a shooter to aim that way. Another time, in high school, when the police were checking my classes barricade, they managed to crack the door open. I’m pretty tall with blonde hair, so I kinda stand out a bit to start with. I wasn’t huddling down in the corner because it was a drill so I didn’t see a reason to do so. The cop shined his flashlight at me and said, “Tall blonde. You’re dead.” In middle school, the police were checking the barricades each class made (I think they came every three years to each school in the district). My class stacked a bunch of backpacks on the desk barricade and, when the policeman opened the door, a bunch of bags fell on his head. We were terrified we’d get in trouble, but the man praised us because we would’ve slowed the shooter down if it was a real event. I didn’t necessarily think twice about these events until I was an adult.
sometimes i forget that kids in other countries have never had to hold workout weight plate in front of them and hope it'll deflect a bullet, sometimes i forget that in other countries going to the college that had the deadliest mass school shooting ever recorded would be horrifying, not a curiosity
It's so refreshing to see someone actually care about school shootings. There's been a couple of times a few kids tried to gun down my past schools. I wish America cared enough for the children to actually have gun laws. In more than half of the states you can buy a gun at 16 but you cant drink until your 21. It's beyond backwards with what America's priorities are. - An American
I’m happy that channels are bringing attention to this problem in America. It’s sad to think that there have been more than 200 shootings since the beginning of the year. We recently just had the biggest massacre happen in a long time at a elementary school. 19 children and 2 adults were killed. It’s sad to think that this is what the United States have come too.
A few months ago an elementary school just down the street from me went on lockdown. There was a man with a gun banging on the doors trying to get in, demaning the school release his ex's kids. (I don't remember if he was related to the kids or not.) Thankfully, he never gained access to the school. I can only imagine the trauma that all those children experienced that day. (The man fled, and took his own life before police caught him. The children are safe, and he will never be able to attempt to harm them again.)
as someone in the american school system, it always surprises me when ppl from other countries see our PSAs. like i feel like we watch a lot of these in class (not exactly these ones but similar enough) i have ideas for how i would get out of school and find my sister and friends if there was an emergency like a shooter. it’s wild to me to hear others countries perspectives
I’m a senior in high school, but through out my years in high school we have had a lot of threats, to the point where my school is considering putting metal detectors in incase someone wasn’t joking about having a gun in their bag. These things had me on edge all throughout high school, I can only name some very specific moments in my time in high school that I think fit with this. One of them I was in freshman year, and three major lockdowns occurred during that year. One was on the same day as the Prep Rally, and me and the other girls in Homeroom were getting all ready for the big day, putting on face paint and wearing all sorts of jerseys representing our school whiles also wearing the color of my grade. Next thing we knew, the announcer said that we were in a modified lockdown. Apparently someone wanted to cosplay as JD, they said that they had a gun in their bag and were going to shoot up the school during the Prep Ralley. Thankfully it was fake, I get this information from my mom and dad who both work for the township (mom is a secretary at the police station, and dad helps with town events at city hall.) and it scared the hell out of me, me and the girls were hiding under the tables, thankfully it was an art room so the tables were huge but still. The second was somewhere in November, and it all started when members of the school’s football team and their coach got Covid, and to prevent the spread they canceled the game. Apparently this pissed off half of the school because for some reason football is more important than the students well being. But some people take this too far, cus someone made a post on Facebook saying that they will bomb the school if the football game doesn’t happen. Since my school principals were the most unreliable being to exist, not only did he say students had to go to school on the same day were were supposedly getting bombed, they also allowed students to go out to the field to protest the cancelation of the football game. I was stuck in my gym class the whole day, scared shitless cus this was the second time in the same year our school got a threat. Thank god I made friends there, which later became my best friends, but I do remember this annoying attention seeking boy in my French class that tried to guilt me into believing the school shouldn’t have canceled the game. The bomb threat was a lie in the end, and whiles leaving, my cousin who plays baseball made a valid point that this would never happen if the sport was anything else. And finally was close to my last day in Freshman year. What happened was a huge fight broke out near the cafeteria, and I mean a bad fight, a security guard got knocked out in the process, and this happened on my way to my Algebra class, so I quickly skedaddled over to class, my teacher wasn’t there yet, a Geometry teacher was in the room, but then when I got there, the announcer called for a modified lockdown, and I kid you not I was banging the door begging for the teacher to let me in, which he did thankfully. Eventually that modified lockdown went by and class went on as usual,I was chatting with one of my friends until the announcement went off again, this time for an actual lockdown, so we all ran to the corner and we all shut up. Surprise surprise, it was another gun threat. I remember my friend hugging me as a way to comfort me since i was shaking. And from then i took every threat seriously. My Sophomore and Junior years were quiet, we only got two major threats in those years. And during those years i actually got nightmares about going to school the next morning only to watch someone pull out a gun and shoot the nearest person, but whenever I ran to warn people about an active shooter, they would say I'm lying, sort of my brain telling me "All of those events were fake, how do you think they would react in a real shooting." which scared the hell out of me. Anyways, the two major events occured in separate years. One was during my Sophomore year, I was in my French class, me and one of my friends there were working on a project where we have to create a scenario and write it all in French. That was until the announcer called for a modified lockdown, but during this modified lockdown, the fire alarm went off, but we were all told to stay in our classes, thats when everyone got paranoid, even the annoying kids in the class went silent, it was like we all collectively knew what this meant. And we weren't sure what was happening, it was a loose loose situation, if we left the classroom, then there was a chance we would have been shot, and if we didn't leave and the fire alarm was for real, we would have burned. I never found out why that happened, but I was messaging the group chat for a club I was in to try to get some info. The other time was during my Junior year, I was in my Algebra class, we were learning about measuring the angle of a triangle, basic trigonometry, me and three other girls in my class suffering from it, until we were put into a modified lockdown, so me and the girls took the time to explain to someone the MLP and FNAF lore like it was a required subject. That one went on for 2 periods, and I still don't know what it was for. As of this year, I've only had two threats so far, and one of them was real. The first one was somewhere in October, I was in my senior health class until again, we were put into a modified lockdown. I wasn't doing much, I was writing a comic, and that same year I was diagnosed with GAD because those threats along with other personal things really messed with my mental health, but I was still worried, I wandering what it was until it was over when my mom told me. A freshman said that they had a gun and was going to shoot someone, and then themself, because I later heard the life crisis line was called whiles discussing it in my senior english class, whiles also debating whether or not the freshman was just doing it for attention, which I'm more on the ladder for that debate. And the other one was recent, and this was the real one I was talking about. To add context, my school has a program that allows students to take a class outside of their homeschool so they can have experience for their career of choice. Me and another girl from my school who is a sophomore are apart of a digital media class, mixed in with kids from other schools. Whiles we were there, I was working on something until my friend whispers to me "Our school is in lockdown…" and showed me a message from her friend there. And we were scared to go back to our home school because this time it was legit. My mom told me, two kids, a 19 year old super senior, and a 17 year old, on the camera of someone's ring doorbell, they caught the two hiding a bag in the bushes of the school's entrance, inside that bag was a pistol, one of those revolvers to be exact. I didn't have my license yet, but if I did, I would have gotten all the people from my school that I could fit in my car, and I would have drove off back home for refuge. Thankfully, our bus drive and aid heard about the incident and delayed the ride back until the lockdown was lifted. Isn't it crazy though, all of these events happened in the span of four years, it is crazy how often these kinds of things happen, this is the exact reason why I have plans to move to Japan once i graduate college. My dad told me about the natural disasters and the creeps, basically all of the cons of moving to another country, but in my honest opinion, I’d rather deal with that, than to have someone put a bullet through my skull. Sorry for the rant, seeing these PSAs made me want to vent about my experiences. Stay safe lads
It’s refreshing to see & hear reactions from a very different perspective and cultural background in the gun violence issues that all of America has been deeply impacted in some way or another 😢 As an American I still struggle to comprehend why we get so caught up on the “motive” behind these horrific events, because there doesn’t seem to be any “reason” for anyone to carry out such acts as those portrayed in these PSA’s. Remember that those shown in these PSA clips are recreating the REALITY of one too many of our citizens who have actually went to school one morning a normal kid, with bright and amazing futures ahead of them & their classmates, teachers, coaches, etc. to either never have the gift of attending school, or making new friends again. Remember the countless number of survivors whose lives are completely turned upside down & their innocence stolen… their right to make good and bad choices in life and get to learn from them, and to become better people for it gets taken from them. No matter the circumstances in one’s life, the actions, reactions, choices or responses to them should not consist of violence against another… there ARE resources available & there ARE good people to be found in anyone will try hard enough, long enough to help change/stop whatever circumstances arising in one’s life that are difficult… the answer will never be to pick up a firearm and use it against someone unarmed, unaware…etc. It’s a sad topic for us ALL!😢 I appreciate y’all’s honest responses to this issue. Praying for changes here in the US to prevent the rising of gun violence, and violence in general!
It upsets me that gun violence is such a big thing here. I feel so lucky that there's rarely any gun violence in the small area in America I live in. The fact that people can't even feel safe in a school is really upsetting. I wish everyone stays safe. Please be careful.
honestly, these kinds of PSAs don't haunt me NEARLY as much as the ones you see before prom. For those unaware, it's very common in the USA to have to watch your friends in a live reenactment of a drunk driving incedent. I'm talking all the bells and whistles. Prom outfits, realistic bloody makeup, ambulances, completely mangled cars, funeral directors in hearses, the ACTUAL parents of the kids, and even life flight. To make it as reallistic as possible, they try to make the times as accurate to a real incident, so I was stuck watching it for about 2.5 hours. When we left, they even had a fake funeral set up for the kids that "died" with pictures of them, caskets, and mourners. I'm honestly still incredibly shaken up from it, even though it's been almost a year (and it was fake-), and I refused to drive my date after prom. Like honestly, THAT is wayyyyy more effective than video PSAs.
It’s interesting to hear their take on it. I personally locate the exit in every movie theater I go into. I also find it interesting that others didn’t have drills in school for this as regular as a tornado drill. The last thing I want to point out is that it’s not just bullied kids I as well as several others I know were bullied this wasn’t out solution
We did those lockdown drills on Guam. We heard about school shootings in America, so we were freaking the absolute fk out when a homeless person broke into the cafeteria. Everyone in my class thought it was a shooter and a lot were crying. You know what's even crazier? The homeless guy broke in literally an hour after the school had just been done with a lockdown drill and everyone still freaked the hell out. The Korean exchanged student was so scared I felt so bad
so tragic. a few years back my cousins friend began having bullies on top of issues at home, he started getting more and more violents toward people as well. one day at 12 am my cousin recieveed a call begging him to stay home because the friend "didnt wanna acciendently hurt you" so he told his mom and they called the police and the kid had a gun ready.
I remember seeing the second video in elementary school. I was a kid in Florida who went to a school known for having shootings in the past. I was terrified
I keep forgetting this it normal to have a detailed escape plan for every class your in and to base your seating off of the safest and easiest way to carry out that plan lmao
Everyone’s talking about the second one being chilling but the first one really got me. Like at first you think the twist is you had a false sense of security and then BAM shooter but then there’s another twist revealed that the shooter was in the background the whole time. Horror movie stuff
I remember Parkland so vividly because it literally happened while I was in classes. I remember turning on my vpn on my school computer so that I could override my school’s block to watch the news coverage while I was doing schoolwork. And I didn’t get in trouble cause I know my teachers were watching my computer screen so they could see I was on UA-cam watching something that is obviously not school appropriate but I think they knew everyone would be watching it from whatever source they could get (we didn’t have news sites block as the high school division of my school does our schools news where we research what’s going on in the world, create a script, record our segments, and then edit it and once a month or so we would present it to the entire high school but sometimes it would be shared to other parts of the school or something; I can’t remember). The day after the shooting, we were allowed to do a couple minutes of silence (I can’t remember how long it took but we started during our break and it ended a couple minutes after class started again) by the flagpole. I remember joining with a few friends. Obviously it was an open invitation. It was also just us high schoolers doing it as well cause the shooting happened at a high school, but I don’t know if the other divisions did something or not as i wasn’t in those divisions.
In high school we went through quite a lot of shooting threats. From someone having a gun in school to threats on the internet that even got the head of the Board of Education and I think either the FBI or police involved. At that time I was grounded so I had no phone and I was terrified. After the drill was over I would go use the office phone and call my mom explaining what happened and telling her I love her. It’s really terrifying
The way we are so normalized to shootings that we dont think this way anymore about them. (Some people). Im scared to go back to school for my senior year because of this! I FEAR for my life just to go to SCHOOL. It should never be like that and i wish our government could see that and the trumpies.
It's insane yet sad how desensitized we americans have gotten towards School shooting with how they happen too often compared to other countries-and it shows with how these lovely Korean men reacted to all the school shooting PSAs considering they're not used to gun laws allowing people to just...own a gun
As an american, I have the phrase "Locks, lights, out of sight" engraved in my brain. (For those who don't know, when you have an emergency like this, the protocal is to LOCK your door, turn off the LIGHTS, and get out of SIGHT from any windows, making it seem like no one is in the class)
It’s so weird to think how things like this are rare for some countries. I have a plan to escape every class I’m in just in case.
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Yeah my school recently had a school shooting threat and we still had to go, I remember discussing an escape root with my friends during passing period because we believed it would happen. It didnt, thank goodness, but there was another school in our city that was shot up because it was also threatened by the same person.
Never even had to have this thought, its so sad :(
Same 😭
Same
The second psa always gives me chills. The last girl with the phone is such a good actor.
Yeah it always makes me sad
Bro I cried internally it’s so dark
she made me tear up 😢
Right that PSA always makes me tear up
Always makes me cry. I was in high school during Columbine a few miles away then grew up to panicked and anxiety ridden days sending my babies to school. Awful feelings all the way around
The second psa never fails to make me feel unsafe or on edge
That's literally the point.
It's propaganda produced by a gun control activism group to play on your emotions.
We are the most violence-prone country on the planet. We are (per capita) the most heavily armed populace in the world. We have so many mass shootings that only the truly horrific even make the news. We can buy military grade weapons (with little to no background checks) at gun shows and on the 'net. WE NEED BETTER GUN CONTROL.
@@amberfuchscia709 out of the 23,000 gun control laws on the books in the US, what should be added, and why aren't the ones we already have enough?
Scoobs McDoobs I grant that I am a liberal Californian. I must also state that I grew up with over 200 guns in our home. My father was a gun collector. My father also. took me and my siblings target shooting on weekends. I learned very early on how to be safe around firearms and other weaponry. My father also told us that if we wanted to hunt...use a camera, not a gun.
I do think I rather succinctly covered which laws need revisiting...gun shows are one of the most blatant ways people get around the gun control we do have. We also have NRA whining about 2nd amendments rights every time a particularly horrible mass-shooting takes place. They say the same thing every time..."we need to wait until the emotion of the moment has died down" knowing full well that people move on to other things. They forget how awful it was to live in the moment of the tragedy. Yes, we do have gun laws on the books. But there are so many work-arounds that most gun laws seems to be useless.
@@amberfuchscia709 For someone to have supposedly been a lifelong gun owner, you're very easily misled on the facts surrounding them.
The "gun show loophole" is a myth.
The NRA is a useless organization that have helped write every major gun control law on the books, the continual "boogeyman" association they get from your type is honestly hilarious.
And I won't respond to everything in that giant wall of text but the 2nd amendment has nothing to do with hunting.
on top of things like bullying and mental illness, the public display of previous mass murderers give inspiration to new killers. most of the school shooters in the past 2 decades have been found to have a profound interest in the true crime community. marilyn manson was one of the first public figures to point this out, speaking about the columbine shooters, that if we give them fame they get what they wanted.
i think it would be a disservice to not also add incel culture and white supremacy in there as well. we can see the two favor each other with incel culture usually being the first step and loneliness can lead people to that mindset with the amount of inspiration they can gather
As someone who has survived a school shooting (IA, East high school) I’m so glad to see how well these men responded to the messages. Rather than just brushing it off as Americans arguing about guns as they tend to do, they were able to see the underlying intentions of the PSA’s, despite a language barrier and difference in culture. Very observant guys, they’re the good type who will hopefully help bring good change to wherever they live now.
East Highschool? From 2022?
@Booji20 This comment is from 2 years ago 😭
by IA you mean Indiana? thats a funny coincidence, i also go to an East High lol we recently had a threat and a lock down
@V3RT3X_PINNACLE @V3RT3X_PINNACLE it's newly 2025. So when this person commented, it must've been either 2022 or 2023. Which still fits into the time frame of when the shooting I'm talking about happened. I'm going to an East Highschool that had a shooting in 2022 so I was just wondering.
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Is it bad that I’m an American high schooler and I’ve seen all of these PSAs? I remember the first time I watched the 2nd one I was shocked, you can also see in the background that things are going wrong. It honestly send shivers down my spine
When i was a school kid it was my biggest fear, and now I have a kid who starts school this year and that fear is back
@ yah, it’s scary, my school has had at least one close call with shootings and lots of bomb threats, thought those were more because were a Jewish school than anything else. This year I had to pretend to be a shot victim so that we can check the first aid kits during our anual lockdown drill and test our first aid training (grade bonding in 10th grade is and overnight first aid training) I’m Red Cross certified!
I remember watching the first one and picking up on the kid planning the shooting during the first watch through... though it may have been because I was watching a shooting psa comp or something? but I still caught it. Kinda sad how I knew though
It's amazing to watch a different culture react to one of the most horrifying aspects of the US. School shootings are so common here, we have been desensitized to it. 😔
😭I will never gets used to something as tragic as what I see myself and my country going through. Never.
No one said that we are used to it... I will definitely never get used to babies being slaughtered in broad daylight, with a high powered rifle, but we absolutely are desensitized in the way that the entire country gets distracted by stupid political talking points and then just moves on without doing ANYTHING MEANINGFUL AT ALL. Just like all of the other shootings.
The so called "thoughts and prayers" from our so called leaders are insulting at this point. I am so fucking tired of this STUPID CYCLE it's disgusting and appalling. I am angry, I am LIVID but I also feel completely helpless to do anything about it, our politicians and the NRA hold us all hostage.
There's a moral decay going on throughout the whole world not just in America. The morale is very low on human life as we see around the world. This also need to be confronted and handled. 🤔
No we haven’t.
Fr. You see it on the news so often it's like, 'oh that sucks' and move on with life just because it happens so often. Death is just another daily occurrence and even if its children it's just another day.
Bullying is a serious issue, but cannot totally explain the actions of a child that walks into school and shoots everyone in sight. More attention needs to be paid to mental illness in the young with access to real mental health professionals for poor students available.
In my experience, the 'loner kid' usually self isolates and ignores all attempts to reach out to them until other people just stop trying.
My middle/high school didn't have much bullying but there were loners
@@Mila-Rosa exactly! ppl don’t realize that a lot of school shooters weren’t just ‘quiet kids who needed friends.’ Most were racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and many were white supremacists. I agree that schools need to better address their mental illness. Instead of ppl just encouraging other students to endanger themselves by reaching out.
@@Mila-Rosa I was the loner and classmates would make fun of me because once one person started it just kind of spread. Most of my friends were special needs as I took the medical aid course so I learned to help and deal w any issues they had daily. I took what happened to me and chose to help those who are more defenseless than me but not everyone reacts to bullying the same way some people break
Yes I heard a story of a young man who was almost a school shooter. One person gave him attention and stopped him and now he's healthy and happy. Instead of just talking about guns. . . Most of these springs were 100% preventable but the school board and community ignored the signs
@@rachelpelfrey6647 thank you, exactly! These teachers are useless, if anything, they’re who I mainly blame for the shootings.
its funny that he mentioned a mom dressing her kid in a bulletproof vest because there are literally bulletproof backpacks for sale here
my mom bought me and my siblings bulletproof shield inserts for us to put in our backpacks. i still carry it with me at university
@@anonymous-sg4wibased mom 😎
It’s funny but it’s also really sad that things like this happen
It’s actually sad that no one even argues “you’re being paranoid” anymore.
this video made me start to cry, as an American i am so scared everyday that i could get shot for absolutely no reason. its horrifying.
As an American who went to American high school and went through lockdown drills like everyone else, what I will say about the "quiet kids" is that it mostly refers specifically to kids who don't talk to people and resist social interaction. It's not usually because people won't talk to them. Usually there are already psychosocial issues involved. In my grade, there were probably two kids who were on everyone's radar as "if someone does it..." Thankfully, nothing ever happened, but the year after I graduated, the school went on lockdown because of a threatening note. Two other kids had been bullied (allegedly) for years because they were... weird. Then they abducted and dismembered a dog. They had been arrested, and one kid stayed in jail but the other was bailed out by his mother (the school secretary) and returned to school. Predictably, the bullying worsened-- because who does that?-- and he's the one who wrote the note, although it was determined to be a lie as he didn't actually have any weapons.
When mass shootings happen, it's usually kids who already had issues. Bullied kids target their bullies. Mass shooters are out for anyone.
This is such a recent phenomenon. I graduated American high school in 2005 and I've never heard of an active shooter drill. We just had fire and earthquake ones. You younger generations need to treat your peers better!
@@moccalou The first "mass school shooting" happened at Columbine in April of 1999. I started kindergarten that August. I think that makes us both millennials? So were they. You can say "younger generations," but it was our generation that started it all.
The mass shootings that occur now are essentially copycats-- kids who are miserable for one reason or another and want to take it out on others. I guess lockdown drills hadn't taken hold nationwide by the time you graduated, but the next mass school shooting was at Virginia Tech in 2007. You say you graduated in 2005, so... wouldn't that be even closer to your age? "Younger generations" my foot.
It's not a generational thing-- people have bullied and been bullied since the dawn of time. It's that two kids at Columbine got the idea to massacre their classmates, and now every other psychopath who wants to go out with a bang will try the same crap because it's sensationalized. Being bullied doesn't mean you'll try to murder everybody-- you have to already be in an unhealthy mental state to even consider that, and that's not the responsibility of your classmates.
@@IzzyKawaiichi Yeah, I'm one of the older millennials. Guess I'm talking to gen z. I was in 6th grade during columbine. I remember watching the news in class. I just wanted my shake my cane at the new kids moment.
I actually listen to Dylan Klebold"s mother Susan talk about some of these things like suicidality and how you can start devaluing life if you don't care about your own. And I'm sure a bunch of it is social media taking hold in the 2010s. Bullying didn't used to follow you home because there was not a great online presence. You didn't take to Twitter because it didn't exist. There might have been Myspace but a lot of people just ignored it. You'd go on message boards for your one particular interest, and then you'd only add your friends on MSN Messenger, ICQ, and AIM.
A lot of it I imagine has to be, yeah, the copycat glorification of the Columbine massacre. But it took technology and the interconnectedness of the entire world to really jump start that kind of glorification and access to media that drew attention to it.
Obviously, if there's a lot of bullying going on and it's taken to social media so that the victims don't feel like they're ever free of it unless they do something rash, then I would stand by my conviction that students need to treat their peers better. School faculty need to be more in tune with what's going on, and parents have to actually care and raise their children better as well. A lot of people my age already have kids in elementary school so yeah, millennials need to do better too I guess.
Like those parents of Ethan Crumbly. They're probably about my age and they seem like horrible people. Actually, they're probably gen x. Not a lot of 34 year olds have 15 year olds.
@@moccalou it’s not just about treating peers better, it’s the fact that access to these weapons are so much easier than they were before
Very astute
These men are hitting the nail on the head with their guesswork and they've likely never even stepped foot in the USA. Very astute and intelligent people.
I grew up in the Philippines and the USA. Never did I watch a school shooting PSA back in the Philippines. We would do fire drills and earthquake drills, but that’s about it. Then, I came here and when I was in 8th grade, that’s when we were all gathered in the school gym and watched the Columbine shooting. That was my first real awakening of gun violence here in the USA. As years pass, there were Virginia Tech Massacre, Sandy Hook, Florida shootings, Las Vegas shooting, and sadly, many more. It is such a huge problem now. I have many friends that are considering home schooling for their kids now. My middle school and HS didn’t even have school gates or high fences when my siblings and I went there. Now, not only are there gate and tall metal fences, there are also police officers assigned there now and K-9 that are patrolling weekly. The US is a beautiful and proud country. When you see us, we smile as a greeting. It’s not a perfect country, but there’s ni such thing as a perfect country.
I have no idea who you are my friend, but that was one of the most touching things I’ve ever read. It’s true that Americans are criticized for how we respond to gun violence and how we respond to stuff in general, but thank you so much for this comment. I’m honestly a little teary eyed rn
same, i used to live in nigeria where he had to do 0 shooting drills. But after my family moved to America and I started school there, my 2nd day in an american school we got a shooting threat and had to go on lockdown mode. I was really shocked and had no idea what was happening the entire time. Still, im glad it was a threat and ddint actually happen. That was my first ever school shooting experience
The second PSA never fails to make me cry
Exactly. Especially at the part with the girl and her phone.
I love seeing how people react to it. Instead of just brushing it off they took the matter seriously even though it doesn’t really happen in Korea. I think that’s very mature and goes to show that people should be taking things like this as seriously as they do!
Everyone take this seriously except american. If they really care about their people gun would be banned already.
@@Ariel-my7lh Americans do take it seriously, I'd say about half of the full population. But there's a lot of republicans in the big offices and politicians in general are corrupt, but mix that with dumb policies, you get a dangerous situation. Same with the abortion laws, people are dying from that. So, the question is with cases like this, how many more people have to die for this to be stopped? America, as a person who lives here, is considered the richest country, but it's so wealthy because of how corrupt it is. It's definitely better than some countries, but the wide majority are so uneducated that they vote for someone, not only the president but governor of their state, mayors, etc. based off of things they know nothing about. For example, West Virginia is considered the most behind education wise out of all 50 states. I've seen interviews and they think the president has control over the economy. Like one term would change around the economy and make them live an easy life. Which isn't true, there are many contributing factors. And also, the second amendment is "the right to bear arms" which means you can legally carry a weapon. Patriotism is a hug thing in America, and so are guns, it's engraved in our history. A lot of people here hunt. There's also the "stand your ground law" which means people can shoot someone if they're on their property, with some restrictions, of course. So, people feel that taking away those rights, would "take away their freedom", some people view it as fascist or communism in extreme ignorance situations. So, it's hard to just take away guns with so many people who "love" them, and the way that are system is set up, each state has the right to make their own laws and ban them (to a certain extent). Also, taking away guns doesn't mean people still won't get their hands on them if they really wanted to, and some Americans really want to.
@@Ariel-my7lhguns can’t just be banned. The amendments are the reason we can even have them. The problem is that it’s way too easy to access and get them now.
@@Ariel-my7lh this lmao. "We know kids are getting shot dead at schools but hey here's 1864832 bullshit reasons why we can't ban guns!" If anything I take it seriously because it's just absurd. Dystopian.
@@Ariel-my7lhBanning guns is a ridiculous idea. You realize the people doing bad things with guns will just find ways to get them in other ways, leaving the people who are obeying the law without protection, right?
It’s odd for both sides here. I’m from America and watching two people, not know about (or not really understand the implications) things that I have to think about every day when I go to school shocks me. it is constantly in the back of my mind. Any loud noise makes everyone turn. A kid popped a milk carton and kid started screaming and running because they thought it was a gunshot. there are people who recommend their children to get bulletproof backpacks, which is a thing you can get in the US because of this. 4300 children are killed each year in school shootings in the US. I am expected to know how to defend myself. There are teachers who put their lives on the lines to save their students/are expected to sacrifice everything for the people they teach. A minimum wage job should not come with the added risk of death. This year we have had two bomb threats and one shooting threat to my school. The school shooting threat was made via kid on the suicide hotline. We only got the notice that this could happen at the end of seventh period (8 periods in total). We didn’t have service in our school so we couldn’t contact our parents, we were scared shitless for our lives. Thankfully, everything was fine and that kid was detained, but it was terrifying. This has happened at least once a year for the past 4 to 7 years years for me. I had school shooting threats when I was in elementary school, how do you tell a 10 year old kid that they could die right alongside their friend in that moment? You can’t.
Im a high school student in the US. These issues are absolutely serious. About a month or two ago someone brought a loaded pistol to my high school. Yesterday someone brought a loaded gun to a middle school about 5 miles from my house. They were even prepared with a hit-list. Today threats were made to my high school. They said that the school will be bombed about an hour and a half from now. Today is the last day of my high school career and I have to live through it terrified. We need help.
Honestly I thought you were talking abt the high school near me because every thing you said sounded familiar but then I saw the time and it isn’t the same as when it happened. It was the first day of high school that kids got a bomb threat :,)
Sadly and thankfully my parents don’t allow ne to go to school or have friends
@@Koala_Kawaii311bro what? Im assuming you mean you’re homeschooled?
Yeah, my high school's had multiple shooting and bomb threats this year, including one on Homecoming, and last year a kid was caught with a handgun on campus. It's a very real thing
Yah, my school has gotten multiple bomb threats, I go to a Jewish school and we have security but there have been instances where people drive up to the school asking if this is the Jewish school in the area and then are discovered to have multiple loaded guns in their car. We had a lockdown drill and I was a person who had to simulate being shot because they had to check the medical supplies and see if enough kids know first aid. On that note, we do a grade level bonding at the beginning of sophomore year and the entire time is dedicated to learning first aid in case of an emergency
I'm watching this after the Uvalde tragedy...this is a REAL problem here in the states, a true nightmare. I'm a mommy of two boys that are still too young for school...
uvalde was devasting...19 little kids dead. the texas police response was terrible
@@jonneha7 yep, it was the Border Patrol that took care of the situation
Mass shootings in america doesn’t just happen in schools. It pretty much happens everywhere, grocery stores, malls, movie theaters, churches, etc…you literally could be at the store just to buy something like a pack of gum and end up as a victim of a mass shooting in a split second. And that’s because you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time by chance.
It's the prevalence of guns with no purpose except to kill people and assault rifles which kill masses of people. That's why you don't see these kinds of incidents in Korea.
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Mental illness is not being focused on as well in america.
A lot of it is people in general don’t know how to act civilized towards each other, few people are taught respect or how to actually be kind but also fewer are taught to take accountability for their own actions so when they screw up they take it out on others rather than own up to mistakes and fix them, honestly it’s largely a parenting issue as it start there
Yea, its definetly a human issue as much as a gun issue. Take germany for example, guns are legal but you have to have a licence in order to purchase one and you have to go to a specific gun shop to find hunting rifles and such. But germany takes great importance to mental health as well, it doesn't cost much anything to get a decent therapist to talk to and the free heathcare makes it much easier to be admitted for mental health reasons. Overall, they make it easier to get help as well as harder to get guns. Thats why you dont hear about shootings there.
@@imperialwhovian3461 If you look at the vast majority of school shooting cases, it's not about "not being taught how to be civilized" is abuse, neglect, bullying from peers, online persuasion. Parents going through a divorce and the child's mental health being neglected is one case I've heard of in a shooting. It is a parenting issue, but not in the way you think it is. These crimes aren't that simple and making it out to be a generational issue of kids now being selfish or brats, which is what I personally think you implicated correct me if I'm wrong, is not correct. The real issue isn't the firearms, but taking away such a deadly weapon would help crimes go down all around, you can't prevent every person from using a gun, so why just not eradicate the possibility all together so no more people die? In places like Australia and the UK that banned guns off of one incident, the US has let many many many, happen. Taking away guns, with the extra plus of more accessible therapy options would help combat this issue. There's a reason certain weapons aren't allowed to the public, like bombs, guns are pretty much the same thing and can have the capability to kill dozens of people in under a minute. That's as dangerous as a bomb.
I was in high school during Columbine... My friends in college during Virginia Tech... My kids were in Elementary during Sandy Hook... My kids are in highschool and college... Uvalde... Nothing changes.
Some people say it's propaganda, but for me who live in country that have same law like these two gents, it is actually proper way to raise other's awareness about the social isolation other person might had endured.
Problem is do you care to talk with silent kid in the back seat? XD
The only people saying this is propaganda are the people for whom their own "rights" are worth more than the lives of their community's children.
Problem is-- does the silent kid care to talk to you? A lot of the perpetrators just hate everybody for no reason.
@@IzzyKawaiichi Nobody hates everyone for no reason - there's always a source. In some of these kids, the source is exactly the fact that no one will talk to them. They feel neglected and angry because no one wants them around - which of course is a vicious cycle.
@@IzzyKawaiichi We all have been teenagers once. You know about the kids that were picked on or bullied because they are different. It's even worse because of access to social media. I can only teach my children to be kind. They don't have to necessarily speak to some shy kid, but they wouldn't bully or mistreat someone.
@@ellenjones7819 Yes, there are plenty of kids who were picked on or bullied, but it takes certain kinds of internal issues to decide to shoot up a school. Those issues won't be resolved by people talking to them.
Should have done the "this is your brain on drugs" egg video. There's the fried egg video and the one about heroin where the girl destroys the kitchen.
I was waiting for that one! Seemed they just focused on school shooting psa tho. Or the paul Reubens "this is crack" one
I'm a quiet kid myself I barely have any friends myself but I kinda think that's how we want to stay. It's also really hard to interact with people I will tell you though when people talk to me I get quite happy.
As a middle schooler in the US, i personally think the biggest problem is not bullying or neglect (although that is usually one of the biggest factors) but people's access to guns. If someone doesnt have access to a gun, they cant do a school shooting, simple as that, but if the adults around thsm are careless with their guns or give the kid a gun, (not to long ago a man was arrested for giving his son a who preformed a school shooting a gun, even though he had displayed signs of violence in the past) then they can get do a school shooting. So, i think bullying isnt the largest problem, but access is.
Dang. I was only in 6th grade when Columbine happened. I'm glad that it took so many more years for things to get really bad because by the time I got out of high school in 2005, there still weren't active shooter drills or anything to make us feel unsafe. I feel bad for kids nowadays. But I also wonder why there are so many messed up kids in the first place. The workplace shootings and violence haven't gone up. Why school? Too many glorified attention-seeking Columbine copycats? Too much mental illness? Too much access to disturbing information? Who knows.
Not enough parental monitoring and not enough spankings when they need it.
I felt the same thank god I was done with school but then I realized my nephews and niece is in elementary. Now I think about this every month.
As the guys in this vid pointed out...this doesn't happen in most civilized countries like South Korea, because all guns are banned...
In addition, these same countries, like South Korea, have free healthcare, including mental health issues treatments.
@@pizzamonies793 Are you saying the US isn’t civilized? Please explain?
@@radbunnie2297 No, I think it's messed up how many young kids have gotten killed just these past couple of years while going to school. And that we charge kids for basic lunch during an 8 hr school day when other countries give it for FREE. Or that we're only one of TWO countries in the entire world that do not promise mothers leave after giving birth, most are expected to work up till their due date, and be back to work asap, leaving their one or two week old babies with complete strangers at a daycare.
OR that we let folks die in their homes every day because they cannot afford their neccessary prescription drugs...something that again, is covered in European & Asian countries...HECK even many African & South American countries make sure citizens all have access to basic healthcare.
Let me continue:
We bury students in school debt, something that all the places I listed above also realized is a dumb thing to do, imagine strapping 44 MILLION 18 year olds with six figure debt THAT the government collects interest rates on for their lifetimes. We even have govenors & officials in DC with stocks & investments tied up in the companies that handle student debt!
Not even getting into the fact that water across the US is becoming more & more undrinkable, not just Flint, (WHICH still isn't fixed!) look into Phily, or Pittsburgh, or Milwaukee, or even many small towns across the US, many are having issues with providing basic clean water to citizens.
Just top off this list with a housing crisis, an abismal minimum wage that isn't AT ALL livable for anyone, Lack of guaranteed vacation time( SEPERATE from maternal leave- again, almost every country besides us has this, too!), government corruption, ( we literally had a terrorist attack on our nation's capitol a little over a year ago with multiple casualties), rampant racism- especially amongst our police force, women's rights being rolled back in MULTIPLE states, MULTIPlE STATES making new laws allowing people to commit hate crimes against LGBTQ folks, oh and...
THE LARGEST PRISON POPULATION ON EARTH, many of whom are paid pennies a day to make goods in America, including things like furniture for our officials in DC. 😑
I dunno, sounds like a God awful country. Wish more Americans could afford to travel so they could see just how bad they have it here...but most can't because we're all wage slaves strapped with decades of debt...🙄
(Also multiple economists around the world have pointd out that the US is likely to collapse in the next couple of decades, and that other countries need to prep for folks trying to flee/immigrate. Good grief)..🤭
Someone brought a gun to my school for a week and no one noticed the only reason anyone found out was bc a teacher got a tip from a student who saw it. So school got closed on picture day and it would have been the best time for a school shooting bc everyone is in the same area. It actually scared me knowing that on that day it could have been my last day too.
Not the same but I did a similar thing with very strong pain killers I got after I twisted my ankle. After I got my cast off I decided to carry them around to see if anyone would stop me. I made it two years, drug dogs, teacher checks. No one found em. I didn't hide them either, they were literally in my front pocket.
it's so weird to me that not all countries makes their school students do lockdown drills and stuff. Like there is this forigne girl in my class and she was shook during one of them and was confused when everyoen else was like it is the most normal thing in the world.
i'm sure there's fire and natural disaster drills but lockdowns are only an american thing :(
6:49 I used to make jokes about “quiet kids”…until there was a school shooting about 10 miles from my school. Six people died. Having the afternoon announcements changed from usual boring school stuff to protection techniques changed my perspective on everything.
It's sad that PSA's about shooting in school have become the norm.
Just this week, 19 children in elementary school, plus 2 adults lost their lives after a guy entered the school and began shooting.
You mean the based Salvador Ramos?
The editors immediately cutting from the PSA's to Dimple's bubbly and jovial background music is so jarring lol
I took these videos at face value, not as propaganda bc I didn't know they were political messages about banning guns and, most likely, neither did these guys.
I think that's why they were able to hit the mark and respond to the HUMAN issue and not the GUN issue ... which was spot on, btw.
You do know that bullying is a problem in korean schools, thus their conclusion. They relate to it more than the “gun issues”. It’s really is both a gun issue and a human issue.
Guns do not shoot themselves. Even if there’s a bullying issue, which there is EVERYWHERE in the world, the only country that suffers mass shootings is the US. It’s tragic. But since nobody cares about the people dying, lemme say it to the effect that these egomaniacs can understand: it’s embarrassing.
It’s not about the guns. It’s about the fact children are dying and the government can either provide funding to make schools safe, or make guns harder to get if you don’t need one. No one says “ban guns”. But there are common sense practices that could be in place that aren’t, such as requiring a mental and physical health check as well as training for someone to own one, and ensuring people properly store them away from children.
Bullies or mental health are everywhere. School shooting is only in the US. What do you think make up the differences?
We definitely need to tackle the gun issue though. The human issue is insanely intangible and perhaps unfixable for a long time, it will take a ton of social and cultural change in America. But we can be tougher on guns in the now and prevent ease of access now and later on into the future. A person shouldn't be able to just go buy a mass murder weapon, keep those at gun ranges. And even pistols should be insanely tough to get and a long long long process with a ton of background information.
Bullying is also a serious issue in Asia, they are just more likely to take their own life rather than others
The second one never fails to make me teary eyed.
Every school has their little klicks & snobs as we called them back in the day. If someone is quiet & doesn't talk to many people, how many of you will take the time to talk to them first instead of waiting for them to talk to you first. How many kids are very shy or feel unaccepted? It's time to stop the bullies and act like they had nothing to do with making somebody feel worthless. Kids can be CRUEL, more so than adults because adults think about how to treat other people.
I'm a teacher in the US but didn't grow up here. My first year I was surprised to know that elementary schools in the US practice what to do in a case of school shooting.
But then last year our school had a lockdown because of a school shooting at the high school next to our elementary school, and I was so glad that my little 8 year olds knew what to do. The kids who I could not keep quiet for 5 minutes during instruction were silent for almost an hour. It broke my heart that they have to go through that though. 😢😢😢
School shootings are often talked about from 2013-2022 there has been more than 800 school shooting and more than 200 deaths across the U.S. so yes this is a big problem in the U.S. but there are controversies against gun control and a huge debate about it.
Last year, my middle school had bomb threats, weed circulating, 2 fires, over 2 dozen fights, threatened school shootings, attempted kidnaping, and my state is still over the 30 safest states. Please help, I have to go back to that school again this year, I’m scared, what if I’m not one who survives this time, please, please, please help, help the teachers and the kids. I don’t want to die nor do I want my future kids to be scared like me right now.
The 2nd psa video always make me cry especially the part where the girl texts her mom "I love you mom"
I will never be more terrified than the time my school went on a soft lockdown. There were so many parents picking up their kids that there was a line out the main entrance.
Something similar happened to me on Election Day and we went into lockdown because of a threat. I was horrified. And even the police said to the superintendent that it’s not safe to have school on Election Day but here we are.
Same happened here. We had cops with dogs all over my school in fifth grade because someone left a threat on the wall of the local middle school, and the middle school was evacuated (the district elementary schools just had police everywhere). When I got to that middle school the next year they updated their lockdown drills to be more effective and the principal would walk around and pound on the doors to check if they were locked. I remember right after one of the really bad shootings we had a drill and I nearly threw up from crying
@ aww I’m so sorry that happened to you :(
@lumisherbert5682 I'm so sorry. It's very traumatic when things like that happen and I hope you recovered
@ Same to you as well, nobody should have to grow up in an environment where this kind of thing is normal :(
I dont think it helps the situation when we make kids fear the 'quiet kids', some kids are simply introverts. Imagine getting labeled as someone who'd be a school shooter when all that you really are is a kid who's abit shy and reserved. I think that'd make the kid more likely to harbour resentment for the school
The second psa is another level
The end like oh my god it’s so sad
Teach your kids, don't let the world beat you to it.
I went to American high school from 2018-2022 and we had to do lockdown (school shooter) drills monthly. Every classroom had a yellow paper that identified the “safe corner” (the one most out of view from doors and windows) and teachers would go over things to grab for self defense. My chorus teacher would always grab the fire extinguisher, my history teacher had a hammer in her desk, we had agreed who would have scissors/chairs/etc. Every door window had to have an emergency cover that could be pulled down to block off the view. Also we did take note of the “quiet kids.” There were usually at 2-3 people every year that we kept a close eye on because they would be the most likely. At one point I had to go to the office because one of the quiet kids had told me I was on his “safe list” (of people not to shoot) because I was kind to him. He was already showing some alarming signs beforehand such as dressing in military uniforms to school (American and North Korean), making random riot gear, pretty much running a training course through the hallway and literally scaling the walls and vending machines (he really liked parkour and was dedicated). Someone else I know personally said they had packed the weapon then unpacked it because of how their friends would feel. I reported it and they got psych help. It is a very real issue.
The last part of the second PSA gets me every time no matter how many times I’ve seen it, I think they do a great job with the music change too and the fact the kids are smiling is so unnerving
i actually saw the second PSA before, like three times.
I graduated high school in 2020. I went through approximately 5 real shooter lockdowns and countless shooter drills. We started doing these drills in elementary. It’s scary to think that you might die every time you go to school. We have a problem with bullying but it’s also a mental problem. People have broken home lives and shitty parents. All problems stem at home. Racism, homophobia, and just hatred towards people are learned behaviors. As a society and humans we have to learn empathy and respect for all humans. Regardless of their beliefs and background, we have to accept each other. Maybe one day we’ll have a more understanding society.
Ya'll prob gonna get some hate for this, but I appreciate the video. Ofc these videos each have a set narrative they're supporting and a lot of American's get fired up about the gun debate from all sides. I will say that it's interesting seeing the reactions from other people who don't have the same gun laws as us see how different it is. Regardless of peoples' opinions on the matter, school shootings and accidental shootings with unsecured weapons that are accessible to minors is a real issue here that people like to ignore for some reason.
Don't forget the weapons in the hands of drunk or otherwise impaired people. My grand daughter's classmate was shot and killed by his own father who was playing with a gun. 7 years old. I have plenty of firearms and no one can access them but me. My husband has mental issues and he doesn't even know where they are - and that is as it should be.
@@mayhemacres725 I'm sorry to hear that. Lost my two cousins the same way. My fire arms are hidden away from my own father as he has suicidal and violent tendencies.
Both of you are great gun owners, actually this is how gun ownership should be like.
The way I saw that psa in school for a assembly is sad 3:09
That girl at the end of the video is a real good actor. That's what made the PSA video stand out, it made to a lot of appeal to awareness.
I've never been through a shooting but once my school has been on a list but luckily the person who made it got arrested, the first time I have heard of gun violence was during the Uvalde shooting (i was in elementary btw) now as a middle schooler, my heart goes out to those who have been through or died in a shooting. God bless them
It’s weird to say it’s so common here. I have an escape plan for all my periods. There was a school shooting down the street and we went in lockdown for like three hours
These issues are so serious and its the fact of how poorly guarded our schools truly are. I recently graduated middle school last year and im a freshman in highschool rn. I kid you not maybe a while into my freshman year somebody told me that somebody was caught with a gun at my old middle school, she didn't attend the school snd was DEFINITELY not the students age and was going to target a student, ig it was over a fight that might've happened with somebody they know that goes there, eitherway a teacher had to tackle her before she fired the gun. I couldn't imagine how I'd feel if she had fired the gun and it had injured someone. It doesn't help that the school im going to rn found someone with a gun in their bag JUST last year. It gets to a point ahere its not about bullying anymore but simply just mental health, bcuz you are truly not alright in the head if you think its a good idea to go to a middle school disguised as a student to shoot an ACTUAL child over a petty fight, or just bringing a gun to school in general. Mental health seriously needs to be focused on more bcuz they're starting to happen more frequently simply bcuz the shooter wants to be the next big sensation or they want to settle some beef with a singular bullet..
It’s not really about “guarding” schools. It’s just that normal countries like here in Japan ban guns and violent Americans have the “freedom” to shoot each other with guns. That is the difference.
Mental health issue in Japan. But, we ban all guns. That is how you fix it.
@@BrilliantHandle quick question, genuinely curious, are you in japan or are you just using them as an example ?
@@BrilliantHandle that's why I mentioned guarding schools. It's almost impossible to fully ban guns in the US after so long, I feel if other countries didn't ban the ownership of guns then they'd be having the same problems bcuz everywhere there are violent ppl, it's just that the US has the unfortunate circumstances that allow such easy access to firearms. Since this is such big problem here and has been for a while now, it would make sense that schools should be gaurded like how they guard the president.
@ZeusHadANOTHERkid I am a Japanese resident. We are a small island nation so it would be an unusual example otherwise lol
The reality is that Americans want this to be our children's lives. It doesn't have to be this way, but its the result of policy choices that say access to an assault weapon is more important that children's safety.
my school almost got shot up before christmas break and the only reason it didn't is because a kid snitched on the other kid who had the gun. The kid with the guy had a list of names and everything, it's so sad these are things we have to fear everyday and plan for I came to learn not to fear for my life everyday because some guy with mental health issues decided he had enough and wanted to take people with him.
i remember my school had a lock down once. i thought it was a drill, but apparently at this new school the tell you ahead of time if it is. i remember a kid grabbing a lamp so it didn’t hit the floor and everyone silently cheering. i remember seeing the happiest kids and the mean kids all crying, texting parents. i was confused. i took a nap.
it ended up being an accident, the secretary accidentally hit the alarm. there was a german exchange student there, it was their first day. rough.
As an American the second PSA always gets me choked up and it's even more emotion-inducing just cause of the sheer whiplash you get on your first watch. IDK how it is for other countries but for those who aren’t familiar with American advertisements this PSA is structured and filmed EXACTLY like a “back to school” ad to the point that when it's your first time watching it you genuinely are under the impression that its an idk Target advertisement or something and then your heart sinks, especially when the last girl shows up because you know that throughout your entire school experience, you can’t recount the number of times you’ve imagined yourself and been told countless stories of people who have been in her shoes. I’m not even exaggerating I remember having conversations with my classmates about what we would do if someone came into the school and we were stuck in the bathrooms, we were in 4th grade. I am now in highschool not only that I go to a BIG high school and with every passing day I walk through a metal detector reminded of the ever growing pile of threats made and the fear only grows. Being a student in America feels like a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. That one day you’ll go to school and in the weeks after your family will be receiving “thoughts and prayers”.
I can’t wait to graduate.
Four days ago there was a school shooting 15 miles from me. He was a popular senior that played football. Three injured, two were faculty and the resource officer (in 90% of US schools, usually from 6th grade age 11 until you graduate, we now have a Police Officer at the school all day) This officer shot the student but he is not dead. Amazing and appalling to think there is a shootout at a high school.
In September a student was at school with a loaded gun in the town I live in. Someone told and it was “taken care of”.
I don’t understand the need for all of these guns in the US. It is scary to me. Shootings daily. The gun owners say people want to take away their rights. I can tell you the people that have died have def lost all of their rights.
*** In 2007 a 23 year old South Korean student killed 32 people at Virginia Tech University where he went to school. His parents had immigrated to the US when he was 10. I’m not naming him, you can always find the article. It brings up Being a product of your environment.
As always the guys in black had amazing reactions!
What is happening in Ukraine is exactly why we don’t want to give our guns up, but also have you thought that if parents actually taught their kids about firearms safety and raised their kids to be accountable and responsible that maybe that would solve many of these problems? If you don’t solve the issues with people themselves it doesn’t matter what you take away they will still cause harm
@@imperialwhovian3461 Citizens of Ukraine were armed after the invasion started. Also, how do you plan on making parents more responsible in order to control our public health crisis?
Last year there was a shooting at one of the county fairs in Ohio. I know because I was there, 30 minutes before it happened. My friends that were there heard gunshots, i think it was a few kids that were pissed off at each other or something. the fucking fair board LIED that there weren't any guns involved and that it all happened outside of the gate. the fact we left 30 minutes before it happened tells me that there was some sort of divine intervention because it happened on the midway by one of the rides.
My point being: it's not just schools. it's everywhere. nowhere is safe, if someone wants to shoot other people they will.
2:30 my school showed us this PSA first thing in the morning when I was in 6th grade 😂 a few kids cried lmao
it’s not really funny as if stuff like this happens all teh time and what i recommend is to take it seriously.
@STARYY4RA Don't tell me that, tell people who actually have power to change stuff like that. It's funny in hindsight
This really isn't funny.
@@breeze1148like Republicans? Yes.
@Xomtheproto yes the Republicans
a few months ago, there was a shooter at an elementary school I used to go to, but it was like an hour before school actually started, so that was good that no one was there, because my friend goes there and I’ve been friends with her for such a long time and I wouldn’t wanna loose her.
You know.. for as long as I’ve lived here in the US and gone from Head Start all the way up to High School, I don’t think I’ve ever seen commercials like these. My High School once had a bomb threat from a female student who swore it was a joke but the school didn’t tolerate it and legit called DHS (Department of Homeland Security) to investigate/monitor. I don’t even know how many DHS agent were at the school but I do know from personal experience that on every floor (The main school building had 3 floors and the newly added building had 2 floors) there was ALWAYS an agent at the top of the stair case of each floor watching over everyone that walked by. They even had a couple agents walking up and down the sidewalk where the buses parked to load up or drop off the high schoolers. The agents legit looked like characters out of the Matrix movies. Shades/glasses, black long coats, and that clear ear piece with the wire leading down to their walkie-talkie.
Watching this after the recent shooting that took place in Wisconsin. I'm an hour away from where the Oxford shooting happened. I had to go into a lockdown at my Elementary during lunch because of an armed gunman who robbed a nearby bank. I've had to go into lockdowns at my middle school because of people shooting their families in their homes nearby, a police chase where the suspect, who was armed, crashed into someone's garage nearby, someone brought a loaded BB gun to the school, someone else brought a large knife. My high school had a lockdown during after-school activities because of a shooting from a drug deal gone wrong. Those who shot were students that had the guns in their backpacks that day. Gun violence in the US needs to be stopped. I fear for my life whenever my school does the unexpected lockdown drills. It terrifies me because guns are so easily available to the wrong people, and as a Type 1 diabetic with a loud insulin pump, I'm afraid the real-deal is going to happen one day and that my pump is going to get me and my class killed if it beeps at me. I go to a school that's been teaching us to stack desks in front of the classroom doors during lockdowns, a plan to run if the person gets in, and how to fight if that person gets in. We have plans, but they might not be helpful when a real situation happens since we're all teenagers that will probably panic, I know I would. Violence with weapons, guns, threats, etc in the US needs to stop. Its horrifying how I have to make a plan to either hide myself or be ready to fight or die fighting from someone who intends to kill.
The fact your in elementary and have to worry about this..sad
@@MoLester-q8w Yea, it was sad that I had to go through that in elementary. I still worry about it all the time in high school, its sad in general that I'm not the only one that worries about these things.
I saw the second psa when I was a kid, I didn’t understand it back then
2:02 as a American this is too relatable
I nonstop hear about them
A friend of mine that goes to a different school than me had one
the second one is pretty accurate. I remember being taught in third grade that if an intruder got into the classroom to throw your school supplies at them.
The second one always brings me to tears at the end with the girl wIth the phone I cannot imagine not knowing if that would be the last time I saw my mom and it terrifies me how someone can take a life without a second thought of who loves me and what I could grow up to be
I'm still in high school, and I thought about going virtual because there were so many school shootings happening all at once. I did not go virtual because I would rather die with my friends than be all alone, and I have this fear of shootings all the time. Even if it's not happening as much now. I'm even afraid to go to Walmart or the mall anymore because they do shootings in big populated areas.
Fun fact about UK PSAs. A lot of PSA directors in the 1970’s used film students who took inspiration from western horror films in order to make these horrifying and downright scary PSAs, and since they were deemed educational, these films could be a lot more graphic and darker than the standard rated R movies in the film industry and weren’t censored that much.
Most PSAs and PIFs have 30 Seconds of runtime, 80% of haveing Scary or Creepy music, and A 100% chance of giving you PTSD.
When I watch this video I thought that school shootings happen everywhere and they were normal but now watching this it hit me that they are not normal and very rare in other countries.
All of these same problems happened when I was in school 30+ years ago and there were no school shootings. Because we didn't have children and teenagers with easy access to the types weapons that only soldiers should have.
not true at all, if you're talking about the AR15 platform of rifles, they have been available for public purchase since the 1960s
My son is 12 and i have had to have talks with him about what to do in the event of a school shooting. It is very surreal and difficult to have these talks but with the way things are here in the us you have to. I started them when he was in elementary because it has happened in a few elementary schools. Hes had shooting drills since he was 5 years old. I cant explain how difficult it is to teach an at the time 10 year old what to do if he gets shot. To not say anything if hes in a shooting and someone yells if anyone is in the room or that its the police. To stay hidden and quiet as long as possible. How to stop the bleeding in the event him or his friend is shot. I shouldnt have to explain these things to a child. But parents who lose their children to this some of them may have lived if they knew some of these things. There was one a child who heard "is anyone in there its the police" from an officer outside she said yes but the gunman was in her room she was then shot and killed because of this. She was probably no more than 10 years old. It is sad that this is where we are. That i have to send my child to school everyday with this being a thought in the back of my mind. Will this be the last time i see him. Will his school be the next school in the news. Will he lose his friends to something like this. Its truly heartbreaking that this is where we are at in America.
It’s so fascinating to see people outside the U.S. react to these PSAs as it’s just a part of life here growing up. Though (thank god) I’ve never experienced a shooting, I’ve done plenty of drills.
One day in PE in middle school, we had to do a lockdown drill. The whole lesson that day was planned around what to do in a shooting. We learned to run in zig zag motions because it’s harder for a shooter to aim that way.
Another time, in high school, when the police were checking my classes barricade, they managed to crack the door open. I’m pretty tall with blonde hair, so I kinda stand out a bit to start with. I wasn’t huddling down in the corner because it was a drill so I didn’t see a reason to do so. The cop shined his flashlight at me and said, “Tall blonde. You’re dead.”
In middle school, the police were checking the barricades each class made (I think they came every three years to each school in the district). My class stacked a bunch of backpacks on the desk barricade and, when the policeman opened the door, a bunch of bags fell on his head. We were terrified we’d get in trouble, but the man praised us because we would’ve slowed the shooter down if it was a real event.
I didn’t necessarily think twice about these events until I was an adult.
sometimes i forget that kids in other countries have never had to hold workout weight plate in front of them and hope it'll deflect a bullet, sometimes i forget that in other countries going to the college that had the deadliest mass school shooting ever recorded would be horrifying, not a curiosity
It's so refreshing to see someone actually care about school shootings. There's been a couple of times a few kids tried to gun down my past schools. I wish America cared enough for the children to actually have gun laws. In more than half of the states you can buy a gun at 16 but you cant drink until your 21. It's beyond backwards with what America's priorities are.
- An American
I’m happy that channels are bringing attention to this problem in America. It’s sad to think that there have been more than 200 shootings since the beginning of the year. We recently just had the biggest massacre happen in a long time at a elementary school. 19 children and 2 adults were killed. It’s sad to think that this is what the United States have come too.
Exactly why I'm doing virtual school it's scary how schools in the US are rn
A few months ago an elementary school just down the street from me went on lockdown. There was a man with a gun banging on the doors trying to get in, demaning the school release his ex's kids. (I don't remember if he was related to the kids or not.)
Thankfully, he never gained access to the school.
I can only imagine the trauma that all those children experienced that day.
(The man fled, and took his own life before police caught him. The children are safe, and he will never be able to attempt to harm them again.)
as someone in the american school system, it always surprises me when ppl from other countries see our PSAs. like i feel like we watch a lot of these in class (not exactly these ones but similar enough) i have ideas for how i would get out of school and find my sister and friends if there was an emergency like a shooter. it’s wild to me to hear others countries perspectives
3:24 this psa is so like iconic for some reason
I’m a senior in high school, but through out my years in high school we have had a lot of threats, to the point where my school is considering putting metal detectors in incase someone wasn’t joking about having a gun in their bag. These things had me on edge all throughout high school, I can only name some very specific moments in my time in high school that I think fit with this.
One of them I was in freshman year, and three major lockdowns occurred during that year. One was on the same day as the Prep Rally, and me and the other girls in Homeroom were getting all ready for the big day, putting on face paint and wearing all sorts of jerseys representing our school whiles also wearing the color of my grade. Next thing we knew, the announcer said that we were in a modified lockdown. Apparently someone wanted to cosplay as JD, they said that they had a gun in their bag and were going to shoot up the school during the Prep Ralley. Thankfully it was fake, I get this information from my mom and dad who both work for the township (mom is a secretary at the police station, and dad helps with town events at city hall.) and it scared the hell out of me, me and the girls were hiding under the tables, thankfully it was an art room so the tables were huge but still. The second was somewhere in November, and it all started when members of the school’s football team and their coach got Covid, and to prevent the spread they canceled the game. Apparently this pissed off half of the school because for some reason football is more important than the students well being. But some people take this too far, cus someone made a post on Facebook saying that they will bomb the school if the football game doesn’t happen. Since my school principals were the most unreliable being to exist, not only did he say students had to go to school on the same day were were supposedly getting bombed, they also allowed students to go out to the field to protest the cancelation of the football game. I was stuck in my gym class the whole day, scared shitless cus this was the second time in the same year our school got a threat. Thank god I made friends there, which later became my best friends, but I do remember this annoying attention seeking boy in my French class that tried to guilt me into believing the school shouldn’t have canceled the game. The bomb threat was a lie in the end, and whiles leaving, my cousin who plays baseball made a valid point that this would never happen if the sport was anything else. And finally was close to my last day in Freshman year. What happened was a huge fight broke out near the cafeteria, and I mean a bad fight, a security guard got knocked out in the process, and this happened on my way to my Algebra class, so I quickly skedaddled over to class, my teacher wasn’t there yet, a Geometry teacher was in the room, but then when I got there, the announcer called for a modified lockdown, and I kid you not I was banging the door begging for the teacher to let me in, which he did thankfully. Eventually that modified lockdown went by and class went on as usual,I was chatting with one of my friends until the announcement went off again, this time for an actual lockdown, so we all ran to the corner and we all shut up. Surprise surprise, it was another gun threat. I remember my friend hugging me as a way to comfort me since i was shaking. And from then i took every threat seriously.
My Sophomore and Junior years were quiet, we only got two major threats in those years. And during those years i actually got nightmares about going to school the next morning only to watch someone pull out a gun and shoot the nearest person, but whenever I ran to warn people about an active shooter, they would say I'm lying, sort of my brain telling me "All of those events were fake, how do you think they would react in a real shooting." which scared the hell out of me. Anyways, the two major events occured in separate years. One was during my Sophomore year, I was in my French class, me and one of my friends there were working on a project where we have to create a scenario and write it all in French. That was until the announcer called for a modified lockdown, but during this modified lockdown, the fire alarm went off, but we were all told to stay in our classes, thats when everyone got paranoid, even the annoying kids in the class went silent, it was like we all collectively knew what this meant. And we weren't sure what was happening, it was a loose loose situation, if we left the classroom, then there was a chance we would have been shot, and if we didn't leave and the fire alarm was for real, we would have burned. I never found out why that happened, but I was messaging the group chat for a club I was in to try to get some info. The other time was during my Junior year, I was in my Algebra class, we were learning about measuring the angle of a triangle, basic trigonometry, me and three other girls in my class suffering from it, until we were put into a modified lockdown, so me and the girls took the time to explain to someone the MLP and FNAF lore like it was a required subject. That one went on for 2 periods, and I still don't know what it was for.
As of this year, I've only had two threats so far, and one of them was real. The first one was somewhere in October, I was in my senior health class until again, we were put into a modified lockdown. I wasn't doing much, I was writing a comic, and that same year I was diagnosed with GAD because those threats along with other personal things really messed with my mental health, but I was still worried, I wandering what it was until it was over when my mom told me. A freshman said that they had a gun and was going to shoot someone, and then themself, because I later heard the life crisis line was called whiles discussing it in my senior english class, whiles also debating whether or not the freshman was just doing it for attention, which I'm more on the ladder for that debate. And the other one was recent, and this was the real one I was talking about. To add context, my school has a program that allows students to take a class outside of their homeschool so they can have experience for their career of choice. Me and another girl from my school who is a sophomore are apart of a digital media class, mixed in with kids from other schools. Whiles we were there, I was working on something until my friend whispers to me "Our school is in lockdown…" and showed me a message from her friend there. And we were scared to go back to our home school because this time it was legit. My mom told me, two kids, a 19 year old super senior, and a 17 year old, on the camera of someone's ring doorbell, they caught the two hiding a bag in the bushes of the school's entrance, inside that bag was a pistol, one of those revolvers to be exact. I didn't have my license yet, but if I did, I would have gotten all the people from my school that I could fit in my car, and I would have drove off back home for refuge. Thankfully, our bus drive and aid heard about the incident and delayed the ride back until the lockdown was lifted.
Isn't it crazy though, all of these events happened in the span of four years, it is crazy how often these kinds of things happen, this is the exact reason why I have plans to move to Japan once i graduate college. My dad told me about the natural disasters and the creeps, basically all of the cons of moving to another country, but in my honest opinion, I’d rather deal with that, than to have someone put a bullet through my skull.
Sorry for the rant, seeing these PSAs made me want to vent about my experiences. Stay safe lads
It’s refreshing to see & hear reactions from a very different perspective and cultural background in the gun violence issues that all of America has been deeply impacted in some way or another 😢 As an American I still struggle to comprehend why we get so caught up on the “motive” behind these horrific events, because there doesn’t seem to be any “reason” for anyone to carry out such acts as those portrayed in these PSA’s. Remember that those shown in these PSA clips are recreating the REALITY of one too many of our citizens who have actually went to school one morning a normal kid, with bright and amazing futures ahead of them & their classmates, teachers, coaches, etc. to either never have the gift of attending school, or making new friends again. Remember the countless number of survivors whose lives are completely turned upside down & their innocence stolen… their right to make good and bad choices in life and get to learn from them, and to become better people for it gets taken from them. No matter the circumstances in one’s life, the actions, reactions, choices or responses to them should not consist of violence against another… there ARE resources available & there ARE good people to be found in anyone will try hard enough, long enough to help change/stop whatever circumstances arising in one’s life that are difficult… the answer will never be to pick up a firearm and use it against someone unarmed, unaware…etc. It’s a sad topic for us ALL!😢 I appreciate y’all’s honest responses to this issue. Praying for changes here in the US to prevent the rising of gun violence, and violence in general!
It upsets me that gun violence is such a big thing here. I feel so lucky that there's rarely any gun violence in the small area in America I live in. The fact that people can't even feel safe in a school is really upsetting. I wish everyone stays safe. Please be careful.
honestly, these kinds of PSAs don't haunt me NEARLY as much as the ones you see before prom. For those unaware, it's very common in the USA to have to watch your friends in a live reenactment of a drunk driving incedent. I'm talking all the bells and whistles. Prom outfits, realistic bloody makeup, ambulances, completely mangled cars, funeral directors in hearses, the ACTUAL parents of the kids, and even life flight. To make it as reallistic as possible, they try to make the times as accurate to a real incident, so I was stuck watching it for about 2.5 hours. When we left, they even had a fake funeral set up for the kids that "died" with pictures of them, caskets, and mourners. I'm honestly still incredibly shaken up from it, even though it's been almost a year (and it was fake-), and I refused to drive my date after prom. Like honestly, THAT is wayyyyy more effective than video PSAs.
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It’s interesting to hear their take on it. I personally locate the exit in every movie theater I go into. I also find it interesting that others didn’t have drills in school for this as regular as a tornado drill. The last thing I want to point out is that it’s not just bullied kids I as well as several others I know were bullied this wasn’t out solution
i agree with the memes part. people should not be posting memes about things like this, it's just wrong.
We did those lockdown drills on Guam. We heard about school shootings in America, so we were freaking the absolute fk out when a homeless person broke into the cafeteria. Everyone in my class thought it was a shooter and a lot were crying. You know what's even crazier? The homeless guy broke in literally an hour after the school had just been done with a lockdown drill and everyone still freaked the hell out. The Korean exchanged student was so scared I felt so bad
The second PSA had always stuck to me. I was showed that PSA when I was in fifth grade, meaning I was only 10 years old
so tragic. a few years back my cousins friend began having bullies on top of issues at home, he started getting more and more violents toward people as well. one day at 12 am my cousin recieveed a call begging him to stay home because the friend "didnt wanna acciendently hurt you" so he told his mom and they called the police and the kid had a gun ready.
I remember seeing the second video in elementary school. I was a kid in Florida who went to a school known for having shootings in the past. I was terrified
I keep forgetting this it normal to have a detailed escape plan for every class your in and to base your seating off of the safest and easiest way to carry out that plan lmao
Everyone’s talking about the second one being chilling but the first one really got me. Like at first you think the twist is you had a false sense of security and then BAM shooter but then there’s another twist revealed that the shooter was in the background the whole time. Horror movie stuff
I remember Parkland so vividly because it literally happened while I was in classes. I remember turning on my vpn on my school computer so that I could override my school’s block to watch the news coverage while I was doing schoolwork. And I didn’t get in trouble cause I know my teachers were watching my computer screen so they could see I was on UA-cam watching something that is obviously not school appropriate but I think they knew everyone would be watching it from whatever source they could get (we didn’t have news sites block as the high school division of my school does our schools news where we research what’s going on in the world, create a script, record our segments, and then edit it and once a month or so we would present it to the entire high school but sometimes it would be shared to other parts of the school or something; I can’t remember). The day after the shooting, we were allowed to do a couple minutes of silence (I can’t remember how long it took but we started during our break and it ended a couple minutes after class started again) by the flagpole. I remember joining with a few friends. Obviously it was an open invitation. It was also just us high schoolers doing it as well cause the shooting happened at a high school, but I don’t know if the other divisions did something or not as i wasn’t in those divisions.
....whos gonna tell them about the bulletproof plates you can put in children's backpacks at 7:35 (Florida)
In high school we went through quite a lot of shooting threats. From someone having a gun in school to threats on the internet that even got the head of the Board of Education and I think either the FBI or police involved. At that time I was grounded so I had no phone and I was terrified. After the drill was over I would go use the office phone and call my mom explaining what happened and telling her I love her. It’s really terrifying
The way we are so normalized to shootings that we dont think this way anymore about them. (Some people). Im scared to go back to school for my senior year because of this! I FEAR for my life just to go to SCHOOL. It should never be like that and i wish our government could see that and the trumpies.
I swear that second one at the end always got me crying 😭😭😭
It’s so sad how we have drills for these situations when I feel like we shouldn’t but yet again here we are having them for our safety
It's insane yet sad how desensitized we americans have gotten towards School shooting with how they happen too often compared to other countries-and it shows with how these lovely Korean men reacted to all the school shooting PSAs considering they're not used to gun laws allowing people to just...own a gun
As an american, I have the phrase "Locks, lights, out of sight" engraved in my brain.
(For those who don't know, when you have an emergency like this, the protocal is to LOCK your door, turn off the LIGHTS, and get out of SIGHT from any windows, making it seem like no one is in the class)