How Do We Fix the Shooting Crisis? 

Leaving high school is like leaving the vault in fallout 3

that guy who stopped the school shooter should be a mortal combat character

*-This school shooting has been sponsored by coca cola* *feel the bullet*

Mandatory fight nights in high school to let out anger

We should separate everyone into 12 districts and each year hold an event where a group of people fight to the death.

High school students especially have become so used to it. No one takes lockdown drills seriously; instead of preparing seriously for the inevitable, we all play Pumped Up Kicks on our phones lmao. We don't care. The novelty and fear has worn off, now we're only cynical and sarcastic about this shit. We are tired of this; we don't want to have to go to school worrying about getting shot.

I agree kids need more sleep. I’ve been sleep deprived for the pass 3 weeks. Getting even 5 hours of sleep is amazing for me.

Subject: "How do we stop the shooting crisis?" Last thing talked about in the video: *Man with monster muscles defeats child shooter with a basketball to the face*

This is how the reporters think: "Yes!!! The death of all these 12 year old kids is going to make me so much money!!!" Reporter talking to a 12 year old: "So little Jacob what was it like to watch your friend get shot in the head and you thinking that you're about to die?"

For a while during high school I was extremely suicidal, and I didn’t think my life was worth a damn. I remember my mom just saying, “ you just gotta get through it, after high school you can be who you want to be.”

Erik: "I dropped out of college.....I couldn't wake up early enough" (cuts to young Erik on Salvia in his backyard)

tbh your talk about how high school doesn’t matter made me feel so much better about going into college. u guys are like my gay dads

Jason, the Hero, was my teacher and he told us when we were in his class that if it happened he promised that he would would protect us. Couple years later he protected all of the kids and got to fulfill his promise. At Noblesville we are having our finals not count if they hurt our grade because of the kids who have been traumatized or hurt by the experience. If it wasn’t for Mr. Seaman there would’ve been many more deaths and injuries but not many people know because they don’t care about the hero’s and only the villains. The media needs to focus on Hero’s like him and not the actual event or the shooters

Does anyone think we shouldn't allow the identity of shooters in media?

It really doesn’t matter when you watch this video

Erik: "No one gets laid in high school." High school girls: Pregnant

We have to wear ID's, Can't use headphones, we're not allowed to talk to each other in the hallways. This shit is out of control

This year, our school, no joke, had like 10 bomb drills in the same month.

"They fetishzie them" it's true they do! And they love it, the shooters see this and they love the attention. I had a psychology of evil class and we studied serial killers and back in the day they would give them names; the nightstalker, BTK, ect... they purposely stopped doing that BECAUSE of this. they have to stop giving the shooters attention and when they are caught they'll just enjoy it more.

At 8:42 Ethan says that kids wake up at 7-6 am I get to wake up at six on late starts

I wish your podcasts made more of an impact. It's a shame that mainstream media and television is so disconnected from this area of youtube culture. This is real shit, spoken about in a mature and respectful way. The world needs more of this.

It's incredible that this is the most in depth conversation I've heard that analyses ALL variables involved in school shootings aside from guns. Incredible.

These two have one of the best outlooks on this problem that I’ve seen in a while

This conversation reminds me of the movie Nightcrawler

The 7am start time is MOSTLY because it's more convenient for parents. Drop your kids off at school then off to work at 8 Also so you have time after school for extra curricular stuff

I almost killed myself so many times in high school because of the insane amount of stress, especially when you have strict parents who are disappointed in you for getting B's and scream at you for getting C's (not even talking about overall grade at end of semester). The expectations for you are absolutely the most crushing thing. It feels like you have no room to choose your own future.

Actual real solution: better parenting

Damn I thought this was about recent Texas shooting *wow*

The schooling system in America is atrocious, that's probably the biggest issue. All the stories I've heard about American schools are insane, like the teachers don't even TEACH, they instead give you a shit ton of homework so you can do their job yourself. There's so much shit that America should learn from Northen Europe it's ridiculous.

I think parents and adults need to stop saying "this will be the best part of your entire life make the most of it" every adult I encounted- my parents, their friends random bus drivers, random grandmas etc. During high school I have anxiety and depression, it was the worst during school & high school because of all the pressure and I was so unhappy every time some one said that I just wanted to die. The year after high school I was so numb, I felt broken i started a mind numbing job and drifted for a year, I felt like I didn't deserve a future because I failed my last year of school. Then I decided to study, i didn't think I'd get in, I did, I moved out studied hard now I have a part time job in my field and I'm looking for a second job and I feel like I can cope with a lot of the shit I've been put through. In a way I feel like because I had no support from my parents, teachers etc. I am able to handle nearly anything by myself but it so nearly went the other way, sometimes I'm shocked I survived and didn't succeed in ending my life. Life sucks but it's all about attitude. Sometimes we're born without the ability to see the light at the end of the tunnel it's awful, it sucks, it's sad. It doesn't excuse hurting others. Adults need to step the FUCK up. Kids need guidance. Kids need support, help and love. They need outlets like mentioned in the clip, and they need to be cut some slack. Kicking a kid out for fighting that's like labeling a kid a failour before thier life has even started. I dunno why I've rambled on but I will post this in case any kids out there read it. Life gets better, work hard, know your limits but don't be afraid to push yourself, if you don't like it change it, take every oportunity and try new things. The biggest waste of life is regret.

Kid starts shooting up school Enters gymnasium “Why do I hear boss music”

High school was the worst time of my life I never felt so much anxiety everyday since Life is amazing now since I left school no constant stress, you do what u want and you can surround urself with the ppl u want Things will only get better!!

One of the reasons teachers work students so hard in America is because they have a merit pay system for teachers. Teachers can make more money if their students have higher grades and as a result they push tons of homework onto their students. And like you mentioned, teacher's pay is already bad so this extra money can be very important to them.

There's so much that can be done. -Armed Security -Better Mental Health Research/ and Treatment -Better background checks for people who purchase firearms -Parents need to do a better job at raising their kids -Law Enforcement taking action when they are alerted on someone who is potentially dangerous (and it's sad I have to say that, but the Florida shooting could have been prevented if law enforcement had acted because they knew well enough about the suspect.) And one thing that is important. Don't give shootings wide spread coverage. Do you know why there's been more then one shooting recently? I would assume a contributor is the news coverage and having mentally ill copy cats wanting to replicate what they've seen all over the news. There's so many people who are mentally ill today. And it's not even just school shooters. I've met sketchy people. I'm sure anybody reading this has met sketchy people. Yeah, they're not school shooters, but they're clearly mentally ill. Society also contributes to mental health. When people are young, the part of their brain that relates to emotions is very active. Society today has obviously changed to what it was 10, 20, 30 years ago. Something is causing young people to let their emotions get the best of them and become mentally ill.

"You want the meat? We have the meat we're the meat makers" 😂😂💀

In the past 6 years, 2 of the colleges I went to had instances where a student came to school with a box cutter, and cut people’s throats and faces. Texas too btw. It’s crazy

I'm watching this video as I do homework for one of my high school classes, I'm in 10th grade and I totally agree with all the stuff at around the 8:50 mark. I wake up at 5:30 to get to my bus around 6, I play football so I don't get home until 6:30 and then I have to take care of my dogs, shower, and eat and right now its 8 as I do my homework. Shit crazy.

Finally a person with sensible opinions who doesn't freak out because someone has opposing views.

This shit has helped me thru high school so much so far. I come back and watch this video a few times a year.

This is actually a really helpful video, ive really been struggling in school and I think that your right and I should not care too much and just be myself :)

Dude I go to bed at 12-2 in the morning, and wake up at like 5 to finish homework. Sometimes I even just go to bed and then wake up at like 3 because I just get too tired to do homework. High school sucks man.

I don't think the pressure on kids is the problem. Asian countries don't have this shooting problem, they have a suicide problem. They got 6-4, night school, and cram schools before exams. They don't get breaks except when travelling from one cram school to another, and they usually end at midnight. Their suicide problem stems directly from all this work and the possibility of not meeting their parents' expectations. I feel like media attention is the difference, since they want to negatively affect others and they want to make a name for themselves.

Man must have been hard being in a US highschool from the way it seems. I grew up in Algeria, was a proper nerd top of my class throughout highschool. None really cared about social status and whatnot we just went there studied, pranked teachers and classmates and called it a day.

Tbh as a freshman we are under a lot of pressure, there now talking about college getting into more advance classes, it's way too soon for us we have 3 years left and some of is still dont know what we want to be when we grow up

I honestly think a major part of it is the flawed school system like you guys mentioned. I graduated high school about a year ago and I hated it so much despite the fact that I went to a nicer "artsy" high school. I couldn't imagine having to go to a normal high school. During my senior year, I'd occasionally have fleeting thoughts about shooting it up, and of course I'D never act on these notions, it's just high school can get you in this very destructive mindset. Luckily for me, I was never bullied or anything like that, but if I had quick little thoughts about shooting up my school, I'm sure someone who has endured more mental anguish would actually consider it. Now after having graduated high school, I realize how much of it doesn't matter at all. It is a temporary prison, but it definitely should never feel that way. It is my personal opinion that the United States looks to the nordic countries such as Norway, Sweden, etc as examples for reforming the school system here, because not only do kids actually learn more, but it comes off as a much healtier environment.

I got put in isolation (basically being suspended but still having to come in to school) because he was strangling me and I had to push him up to breathe- you know that thing you have to do to live? It's not even like I then carried on the fight, I immediately left and it wasn't like I had some bad reputation ever. I am British, so there are obviously some differences, but you are right in saying shit like that is really fucked, and they see that sort of stuff on college applications.

Love that New York public school hours. My high school had a 7am first bell and a mandatory home room meeting at 7:15, we weren’t allowed to walk outside because of a shooting in the early 2000s and if you played a sport or were in a club you didn’t leave until 5 in the afternoon on a normal day and later with a game. I also didn’t have a lunch from sophomore year on

Being from the UK I have never seen and cannot imagine having ads on news channels

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7:00 AM school start time comes from the 18 Century model of schooling that is the same classroom we have today: compartmentalized, left brained, and industrially oriented to produce efficient workers. Our models for classroom education in general havent changed structurally in almost like 150 years think about that.

I'm glad that we switched the blame from the gun itself to the parents. I grew up around guns my whole life, that being said I never had easy access until my father was sure I was competent and responsible (which wasn't until I was 18 anyway and could purchase long guns on my own. But not only did I not have access, but I was also raised in such a way that I would never have even considered trying to steal one for ANY reason let alone killing people. The true blame lies with the parents, as with almost every single case of a child committing a crime. It's about how we are raised and how our parents deal with things like guns. I hold my guns, and my right to defend myself very dearly and I'm very happy to see that we are starting to consider as a society that the guns are not the primary problem.

well not showing their faces is a place to start like with what you said about the mainstream media meat makers

Wow. That bit about teenage years not being important was really what I needed to hear right now...

Ethan back then: Look at this guy's face, lulz. Ethan now: STOP SHOWING THEIR FACES, THEY ARE NO ONE. THE MEDIA FETISHES THESE GUYS.

when i was in the 5th grade we had bomb threats constantly. it was January and freezing as we had to stay outside for hours.

Rule 1: Dont mention the name, or show his images it leads people to idolize these monsters

Thank you for talking about what it is like for teachers. I am a school teacher in the UK and I cannot imagine having all the stress of being a teacher AND THEN THE THREAT OF A SHOOTER

Certain countries hire philosophers to keep the morality ethics of the company in line. Take Norway for example. We could make it a thing where the media has to abide by a standard of ethics and morality, and consequences if it would be broken. Don't think it would change anything without the proper influence being pushed on the importance of philosophy though.

thabk you for that speech about life after school that totally changes, i really needed that.

This is what Marilyn Manson has been talking about since Columbine

I was waking up at 5am to get to school...

Spot on about how stressful school is. The biggest worry I have about getting into teaching is that a lot of people are going to get pissed off when I don't want to dump a mountain of work on top of my students.

The part about letting kids fight was pretty profound actually

"I just couldnt wake up..." thats my college experience so far

Yes he owns a samurai sword

I had a friend in high school who was suicidal and depressed for most of the four years and always talked about how he was pressured to take rigorous classes by his parents and often stayed up until 2am doing homework and studying. After we graduated he got a schedule that started at 10am and was doing less work at university and is the happiest he's ever been.

my middle school dedicated a whole day of school for school shooting drills, like where we should escape to from each room, which doors not to use, which ones to, how to take down the shooter, which classroom objects to use as weapons, how to find useable exits in a classroom, etc. it really is absolutely terrifying.

i live in Australia, the school that i attend has a room with youth carers that you can visit anytime during school hours if your feeling angry, depressed suicidal etc and it has helped many of my friends that suffer from mental illness or bullies which i believe has really has saved a lot of lives plus if you don't want to talk about your feelings with them yet then you can chose not to. plus in Australia guns are illegal you can get a gun license if you really want to own a gun but the vast majority of the country doesn't have guns which prevents kids from obtaining firearms from their parents. the only sort of bullying here is verbal and still as long as you can make a come back to a "Roast" or just brush things off and keep calm then your fine. i personally believe that to stop school shootings we should, stop the media from glorifying school shooters, just make your gun laws stricter just lower the accessibility of guns to people who shouldn't have them and allow teens _especially_ to have a place where they can express their emotions and be taught that really, *high school doesn't matter* and life * i believe that this will help the drastically help save lives, but i'm just an outsider giving my thought on this topic if you have any constructive criticism i will be more than happy learn and consider and discuss any thoughts.

It's too simplistic to blame the established media alone. They do it for the clicks and views, the consumers give them those clicks and views. There are two sides to the coin. It's a cultural and legislation problem.

"Don't give these guys attention. They're just losers!" "Well, I mean the problem is that he was bullied." Whoops.

This is so true though. I remember at high school literally having the thought of killing myself if i failed. Fortunately i passed but even so upon the many good years I've had so far, high school did nothing for me on that

I already know that this comment section is gonna be a spiritual journey

It’s not a h3 podcast if Ethan doesn’t say that shredder is cute.

This gave me some relief because I’ve been stressing about grades and shit in school and this made me feel better about it lol

I’m currently a 15 year old and going to school everyday isn’t the hardest thing, but lately it’s terrifying knowing I might never see the sun rise again. Sometimes i think I would escape or what I would do if a shooting came to my school. It’s horrific thinking a person I know could kill or be killed.

My old high school now runs "Blank" drills where they'll do a lock down and the principle will go around the school firing blanks from the school handgun. I only graduated 4 years ago. For the first 2 years of high school the classrooms didn't even have doors. First year it was just standard as thats how the rooms were designed, and the second year was because we used temporary rooms during the school remodel. The last 2 years the each room got serious thick ass doors with heavy locks on them that could all be locked down from the main office in the case of an emergency. Shit has changed alot in just a few years.

The first thing that needs to change is to make it illegal for media channels and sites to show the images of the shooters because it is giving them public attention. Second, I wonder how many students would have been killed if that teacher didn't step in and stop him, just shows that the schools need protection or else they have a much higher chance of ending up in double digits.

I go to the highschool in Noblesville, and they brought all of the kids to the school. I can confirm that we had vans all over the place at both schools.

I graduated on the ass end of all of this college prep stuff, but I will say there was a *visible* change in the atmosphere when it was implemented.

I think it’s a lack of community support for some of these people that commit these atrocious school shootings. Like you can tell some people just aren’t in tune with reality and need to be watched a little closer.

The reason people are so passionate about guns and the right to bear arms is because essentially it's the right to defend your self from any entity, and history shows us that when ever a government seizes control of the fire arms of a population some from of despotism then ensues. School shootings are the result of individual decisions that led up to some one feeling like they should shoot up a school. From breaking down the similar aspects of the life in which people who commit these school shootings live, we can attempt to find out how to prevent these things. What's common among school shooters well one being a social outcast, having little to no friends to communicate with means that your not being influenced by the world so you keep some of your misconceptions ignorance and faults. Experience in social situations sort of exfoliates what others around you consider undesirable from the surface of your personality. Not to mention we are social and we need some social interaction to properly develop especially when we are young. So as a parent I would make sure your kid is very well socialized, read and can speak well I would teach my child or sibling martial arts so that they could defend themselves without weapons and so they could respect them selves more because they know they are already capable. Also I would give my child or sibling a lesson on a little philosophy about good and evil aswell as chaos and order. Actually talk to them about how to handle bullys and negativity they receive from other people. Mental illness is also common among school shooters. Solving the problem of mental illness obviously extremely difficult likely impossible. Diet, genetics, vaccines, fluoride and other chemicals in hard water, iodine deficiency, air quality, prenatal substance abuse conditions, radiation possibly all these things and more should be looked into. I can already understand the brooding hateful emotions of resent at existence and all that is ideal innocent or aesthetic. But the conditions that are common among them all are most important to note and try to find practically applicable solutions for. If your are a parent or big brother or big cousin it's your duty to help your young people prosper. Once we all sort of get are shit together and spiritually evolve to a greater level then school shootings will drop. Evil will always exist though I am convinced of that.

Mandatory parenthood would be a start. Any involved parent would know something was up. The irresponsibility of the parents are to blame for most of these tragedies. Vegas was a false flag. 100%.

When you're so ballin you can't even fathom waking up every morning at 7 to go to work....

Well high school is more significant now. Because it’s a lot harder to be successful without a degree now than before. I’m a high schooler and people I know who are older and didn’t graduate and they were able to do things that I know I couldn’t do now.

i go to Noblesville High School and we have finals next week but due to the shooting the school decided to give the finals but the finals will only count for your grade if your grade improves from it. The school district is also changing the start times for us in like 2 years.

I got suspended illegally for false accusations of "vandalizing" and "trying to break into" a cleaning cupboard with no proof when I all I did was touch the lock.

Im a freshman in high school and this hit me so hard

Ridicule is not utilized enough. We need fewer reports on the people and how tragic the situation is, and more people calling them weebs. If these people are going for a legacy of infamy, we must deny it to them, and replace it with a legacy of ridicule. Props to Ethan for understanding this.

It was actually really interesting to watch this as a high school student myself. I'm pretty sure i almost teared up at one point. It's great to see that you guys are actually having a human conversation and we really need to see a lot of these multi dimensional discussions being made at school. I love y'all papa bless great moves keep up the good work 👏

I'm in college, but your statement at 1:16 is beyond relevant. There was an active shooter scare at my school the other week (thank god there was no actual shooter but my campus didn't know that until like three hours after everything was first reported). As soon as I found out there was a shooter I wasn't surprised, it felt like something I was waiting for had just finally happened. I was in a bit of shock yeah, but the first coherent thought I had was "oh, we're next."

There was a kid at a high school in my school district who tried to nonviolently defend another kid who was being bullied and the bullies started beating him up, they even picked him up by the shirt and slammed him into the ground, but when he defended himself, he got expelled and arrested and he's being charged with a felony. It's insane

I thought of killing myself for 3 years now. I never want to harm anyone but myself however. The stress of school, family, bullies, and being apart of the lgbtq has done so much damage to me. I constantly think that I won't make to next year because I actually feel I am a worthless shit who doesn't deserve anything. I am try to hard to grasp on this thread of hope I have left and try to make it out of highschool and see what I can do with my life afterwards. Knowing how you guys are doing now does help. I think school is a fucked up place and if they had a better system maybe we would have as many suicides or school shootings

American highschool sucks but my depression hit me worse right before and during college. Thats just me tho

"We HAVE the meat" Arby's, we HAVE the meats

People need to be taught that growing up happens inside as well as outside. That the adult mindset is totally different and that transitioning from the child to the adult is a stressful and miserable event. Kids are not taught this anywhere at the moment and I think they just think "this misery is what life is and that's it". Emerging adulthood is a stage in your development which ends between 25 and 29 and then everything settles down.

I wish school focused more on going there and learning what they taught you than on coming home and trying to remember what they told you

"Imagine you catch your kid sending letters to a school shooter" i wish they wouldnt have cut that one off lol

Our school does this activity every year I can’t remember what we call it at the moment but we basically role play a very realistic school shooting, you can drop out or participate but it’s terrifying. We implement all the rules, we can’t let students in the classrooms, it’s heartbreaking to hear a fellow student begging to be let inside.

This happened in my home town. I didn’t go to this school but all schools here went into full lockdown for about an hour. We have no school shooting protocol in our schools. We don’t have metal detectors or any of that stuff, all we have for protection is locks on our doors.

The thing you said about people firing blanks in the hallway, I’ve participated in that. My school chose kids that are good leaders and we came in on a Saturday and they went through drills and had swat team members shoot guns.