Quite true. I grew up mostly in a relatively affluent neighborhood with little to no crime, and this was still a question I asked myself growing up. Because it's a legitimate possibility that it could be a gunshot, and not fireworks or a car backfiring.
What's even scarier is that the classmate that could b the potential school shooter does the drills w/ u, he knows where u hide, what corner ur classmates r in, he is already prepared. That haunts me all the time.
Same, it can be anyone, most of the shooters lately are students. They do the "Code Reds" but it's obvious the shooters know we are in a room hiding, schools need to really fix that. I always made sure to have a separate hiding place if it was in range in case of an event or if I had to, run and hop the fence into the canal, because classrooms are not always the safest.
Exactly. Which is why I would take my chances and run. I have to have a better chance of survival running and getting away from the school then being a sitting duck in a classroom. Also even if the shooter isn't a student they aren't stupid. They know exactly where the students and staff are. One of my teachers was also like that. We are getting OUT. Going though a window and running, whatever we had to do to escape.
@@Queeniiiie I agree, I hate the hiding technique, the U.S advertises way too much ab our methods of safety to the point where it isn't a safety method anymore. The shooter already knows bc we advertise it so much. I wish they would b encouraging flight or fight methods. Not sit in a corner. It's stupid and will result in our deaths.
@@em.2689 exactly, I wish schools would encourage fight or flight methods instead of sitting in a corner to wait for our deaths. The U.S advertises way too much on our methods of supposed survival to the point it isn't a safety method anymore. If the school is going to b encouraging hiding, they need to think of better hiding places than a corner or being under a desk. The idea of hiding is stupid to begin w/. The shooter will probably just shoot the whole place up to make sure everyone is dead. We need to think of better methods of preparation when it comes to shooter drills.
I remember the story of one child who had to hide under the bodies of her classmates pretending to be dead so that she could live. The kid was still in elementary.
I remember that she said she pulled her classmates body over hers and covered herself in their blood so it looked like she was dead, its so sad how kids that young have to fear situations like that
Why was I so surprised when she said she hasn’t heard actual gunshots before? It makes me realize that what we Americans experience is not normal. I hear gunshots every other month or so and that’s really sad, I don’t even live in a bad neighborhood 😕
I teach in Japan and one of my school's had some kind of intruder drill and didn't warn me beforehand, so I thought it was real. I had a panic attack in front of my students and had to explain to my kids how dangerous schools can be in America. They were shocked.
See, ik these stories are big news, but the odds of this happening on your school is incredibly low. Dont think we need to be telling people american schools are "dangerous" 99.9999% of the time its totally safe
@@TheGoldenBoot-cz1do I get where you're coming from dude but the fact that school shootings even happen at all is a sign that something is seriously wrong. As long as the average person can get their hands on a gun, no public space (including schools) will be safe. The mindset that "it won't ever happen to me because xyz," isn't helping anyone.
"im afraid of copycat crimes" theres an endless amount of people who have said that columbine was their reasoning to attempt or go through with a school shooting.
I live in the same state where Columbine happened. In 2019, for the 20 year anniversary, a woman from Florida came to Colorado with a gun saying she wanted to "recreate Columbine" I remember when this came out, the whole school district went into lock down. They canceled school for 2 days in over 20 districts across the state. It was so serious that they had to get the FBI involved. She was found dead in the state a few days later with the same gun she bought when she came to Colorado. I thought about it and if her threat wasn't taken seriously, I think she would've gone through with it. It was never said if she was targeting a specific school but all I know is it could've been my school and we could've been the school that got shot up on the anniversary of Columbine.
@@julesss8061 OHH yeah I remember that, I didn't think that that it wasn't normal at the time. I'm really glad they took it seriously, though, or else who knows what would've happened:/
@@julesss8061 i remember that! it was a big deal down here in florida too, at least in my area (because we're close to the area where the parkland shooting happened). she had some sort of blog dedicated to her thoughts leading up to it and her idolization of columbine + a bunch of other stuff that stayed up for a crazy amount of time after her death. i think it might still be up today if u can find the link to it
yeah, i feel like at this point gun reforms can only do so little. the way the media covered columbine was incredibly sensationalized, it created a culture where these shooters are seen as anti hero’s who were misunderstood.
In certain classrooms in high school I’d make note of things like “oh this row of windows along the hallway would make it hard to hide in an active shooter situation.” Or “I wonder how I would escape from this room if I had to.” I hate going to movie theaters because I end up wondering how I would survive if someone started shooting.
At my job I work in the back room and I'm unable to lock and doors with giant glass doors facing the entire room and just thinking about how I would due if someone wanted to make that happen
@@jeandunham1363 it’s scary to think about it. I always feel kinda weird for thinking about it, but it feels like it’s becoming more and more common, so I can’t help but think about it. I hope nothing like an active shooter situation ever happens to you!
When our son was in kindergarten they had shooter drills and he came home the day he went through his first one and said, “Mama, I decided if a shooter comes in the school I’m going to play dead so he hopefully won’t shoot me.” I cried so hard thinking that my little boy had to even think about such a thing at his age. 😭
Its honestly bizarre that this IS normal to us. We're so used to seeing about the latest shooting on trending pages or the news that its not even shocking anymore, its like any other Tuesday and its a horrible thought. It becomes like a fire drill and everyone has to go through one of those. And then you remember outside the U.S, you don't have to worry about getting shot for doing your normal day to day routine.
@@schmoneysworld3790 That's not a particularly good outlook in life-- This problem CAN be fixed-- we can refuse to accept this as our reality and actually work to change things.
@@mshoppers9789 yoooo one time I had a sub and we were hiding in the closet in the science lab for a drill and my sub decided it was a good idea to open the closet door, leave, and peak out the door to the hall because she wanted to see if the drill was over. Like mam are you dumb. She literally had a class of middle schoolers whisper yelling at her to get back.
@@welcometomyrandomness2073 Why would you not jump out the window if a shooter walks in your class with a gun and starts shooting everyone it would probably get you killed to run past him and try to escape out there you could either play dead or jump out the window
When I was an exchange student in Japan I was talking with one of my friends from Australia about school shootings and she was so concerned about it and I said "Well you just go into school with the mentality that you might not come back out" She had the most horrified look on her face (rightfully so) and didn't understand how someone could focus like that. There was also one time in my school in Japan there was a loud bang and I instantly fell to the floor covering my head and everyone was looking at me like I was crazy.
Well, that’s just normal for kids in America and it’s sad. We really need better hiding places for the kids. We just pile them in the corner and hope the Shooter can’t turn side to side.
i'm in highschool now and i'm even MORE worried about school shootings because most of them take place in highschools. the idea of getting killed in a place where i'm suppose to just learn and have fun always haunts me and has been since the very beginning because even kindergartners do drills, atleast where i'm from. it's just horrible that us kids have to do shit like this because it's real and it's happened way too many times. we do all types of drills in school. but honestly i've forgotten that this isn't the norm, i was talking to one of my non american friends and she was shocked that so many school shootings has happened.
The parkland shooting was another one that I would've loved for them to hear about, especially one of the surviviors aalayah eastmond who hid under the dead body of one of her classmates to fool the shooter into thinking she was dead with the rest of them
I’m out of high school now but when I was still in it and my technical school I hadn’t heard about parkland at the time, but both schools the lunch rooms where literal traps with barely any exit. I would run the scenario in my head to just drop and freeze with the bodies because where I normally sat chances of any escape were zero. It’s really depressing that me and fellow students had to run these survival scenarios through our heads.
You know what’s sad? A lot of kids don’t take these drills seriously. I’ve had plenty of drills where people in the class are huddled in a corner or under there desks and they’re all talking, it’s crazy like take it seriously you never know if something could happen or if they’re just disguising it as a drill when it’s real.
I think it’s because we get told by adults that it will never happen so much that some kids believe it. We had an armed mentally unstable man come onto campus during summer practices and we had tons of girls in my Drill team not taking it seriously. We found out later that we just barely missed crossing paths with him by less than 5 minutes and he ended up getting stuck in the wall of the locker room we had hid in earlier. Luckily, no one was hurt except due to heat stroke from searching for him in Texas heat, but if just one thing had been different…
We had one, wasn't a drill someone actually made a threat. And my classmates were loud as hell. To be honest i think my whole grade just didn't want to live.
Our school drills in high school are way more serious. They make it seem like it's really an active shooter in the building. Every time I hear the ringing of the bell and the principles announcement I get scared.
wow that's so good for your school. I don't mean to be rude by saying that it's just at my school they turn of the lights and close the blinds. One time we didn't know if our schools as on lockdown for a shooter on or off the campus and I had a teacher open the door when someone knocked. It shouldn't have to happen at all but I'm glad to know some schools take it seriously
My school implemented passwords that only teachers would know for the all clear. In one school there were two school shooters. The shooters forced a principle to announce it was all clear over the radio so that kids would come out. Our school made passwords so only teachers would really know if it was safe or not. Even drills were scary because they would rattle the door knobs and beat on the door.
We also did more realistic drills. They never announced it so we didn’t know if it was a drill or real. We would jump up, turn off the lights, block the door, and huddle in a corner as far away as we could from windows or the door window. We had to sit in silence for maybe 20 or 30 minutes. They sent staff or police around to try to break in rooms to make sure it was locked up. They didn’t shoot anything but we would hear yelling and loud bangs to simulate it. I understand they don’t want to traumatize kids with shooting drills but I think that school needed more urgent movement and planning. Look how short some of the deadliest school shootings are, you have seconds to react.
@@depressedterrestrial6821 in both schools ive been too, they have done the same its quite surreal sometimes because although no one was shooting its overwhelming hearing the loud stomps and the loud bangs on the wall and lockers.
As an American I still cry every time I see any Sandy Hook footage...I remember that was a very dark period of time for everyone as the news covered it. I can't imagine the horror of taking your child to school and never being able to pick them up.
Also having worked in an elementary school...lockdown drills are scary for kids. Even when kids are used to them. Even if they're not scared, it's a negative experience - the day is interrupted, desks are put in front of the door, and everyone has to lie down on the dirty floor and be completely silent. It's so sad that we need to do them.
yeah, i was 12 when this happened and still in middle school. same state too. about a 17 minute drive away from my city. we went into a lockdown that day and my mother called me to lock all the doors and windows when i got home. absolutely terrifying, especially when i remember police officers escorting us to our ride’s cars just to be safe, since at the time we weren’t sure what was happening. there was also a rumor they found the shooters car at my brother’s college the same day. it hits way too close to home knowing that those kids were about half my age and by now would be halfway through high school.
@@johnalden5821 I agree but the problem was the gun rights advocates led a brilliant campaign of misinformation where they leaked conspiracies calling shootings like Newtown and Parkland as "false flags" and the victims as "crises actors." To me that's even sadder than the actual shootings, because of the poor parents that were harassed and victimized after losing children.
We call those drills “lockdown drills” I grew up doing these drills since I was very little, for a very long time I think I really thought it was normal for everyone, not just in the US.
We started doing them in Canada where I’m from when I was in grade 8 . So not just America but after seeing how often shootings occurred they made us practice these drills just in case something crazy happens
We'll we suggest adding security to schools, but people say it'll make the schools into prisons. Which only makes me think "Bitch the schools are prisons"
@@Robert-rw5lm why not stop selling guns like they are nothing? like instead of putting more security in the schools, it's easier to be safe if you just stop what hurts people
@@Robert-rw5lm Allowing teachers who are former cops, veterans, licensed to carry, or otherwise proficient and responsible firearms users to conceal carry on campus wouldn't be a bad idea. The crime rate among There's 330 million guns in the U.S. No amount of legislation is going to do anything at this point. Check out NYC. It's damn near impossible to get your hands on a gun legally, yet gang violence is commonplace. At the end of the day the only thing that's going to stop a nutcase with a gun is someone else with a gun.
@@natidantas eh, it’s just as the woman said in the video. Guns are so integrated in America that it’s very hard to eradicate it. Once we stop selling it legally I guarantee you more people will just start purchasing it illegally.
Yeah they even practice lock downs from time to time me what to do if a active shooter enters the premises. And if that shooter is a student then they know that cut off the light crap and hide in the corner and probably won’t fall for it
i remember the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, it really affected schools all over the country. my school wasn’t even near the school that that took place at, and we still started a policy where you were required to show your ID card to get into the building, and there were always police officers stationed in the school after that incident. it’s a really sad reality that you have to get accustomed too even as a child because there’s just so many sick, twisted monsters out there.
The worse part is people make jokes about it and you never know when the joke will become reality. My school went on lockdown after so many kids saying that a couple of days before someone posted that they were being a gun to shoot up the school in two days. It turned out that it was fake but it wasn’t a couple of months later when a random tall male in a mascot hat was waking around our school with a bag. Luckily he never entered or did anything but we knew that if he found a way in it could have been a real tragedy that day. I’m blessed that it never happened but guilty because it’s happened to others. We shouldn’t have to live in fear like this. People need to stop playing GOD and punishing people who are innocent. I say innocent because these people aren’t all seeing and all knowing beings therefore they don’t know what any of these people have done to deserve any punishment. It’s sick honestly.
My college went on lockdown because a man was spotted with a gun and was keeping students hostage in the class room. It was my film teacher who is borrowing a prop from theater for one of the students for a group project. People were scared but because me and the rest of the class know the context, we can't help but laugh at the situation. Our director for my group was locked outside too and so me and the rest of the team have no idea what to do and laughed. Some of the students made memes out of it
I remember a girl my freshman year of high school was talking in detail about coming to school and shooting the teachers and people she hated. Those of us around her tried making light of the situation, but it was still super scary. We all were asking her to let us know when so we wouldn’t be there - jokingly but not, you know? I felt so uncomfortable because...well, what if? What if she were serious? What if she were really thinking about it? I recall her talking about us not snitching or SOMETHING idk but nothing ever ended up happening, even after I transferred from that school to the other high school in the city later that school year. I haven’t thought about that memory in so long and it really hurts my heart. What if, what if, what if. I’m in university now, and there was a shoot near my campus a couple weeks ago. They still haven’t caught the guy, and sometimes I worry about what I would do if he came on campus. If he was in more dorm...if he were on my floor. The anxiety I get is only alleviated when I’m praying. It’s almost 5am now bc I watched their previous video and now my heart is racing too fast. It’s tragic that we go through this and have to live with this in the back of our heads.
@@friedrice7876 I did in class I joked about how everyone would die turns out there was a killer in the building he stabbed two students and i felt awkward and apologetic for saying that.
About sandy hook victims who perished..they had defensive wounds. They tried to protect their tiny defenseless bodies with their tiny little hands and arms AGAINST BULLETS. After this NOTHING was done legislatively for sensible gun reform. NOTHING. 20 little children, people's babies were taken. Those who are they just blamed it on "crazy" people and moved on.
@@RecoveringChristian what exactly is “sensible gun legislation”? Background checks? Registration? Licensing and/or insurance/taxes? All of these either exist or are so abusable that it would make gun ownership unsafe for law abiding citizens. The only bad faith is from gun control advocates who can’t bring themselves to say what they really want. Confiscation.
I think the scariest thing for me was when all the schools in my town went into lockdown because a student brought an automatic gun to the elementary school. Three of my little siblings were attending that school. I remember crying because I didn't know if they were going to come back home that day. Luckily the student didn't open fire, but the reason why he brought the gun to school was because his stepfather was threatening to shoot his mother with it. He brought the gun to school to hide it from his step dad.
Fucking hell that's insanely depressing. I feel so bad for literally everyone in that situation. A kid bringing a gun to school because he's preventing his dad from shooting his mom. That's so messed up. The fact that you can buy an automatic or semi-automatic is the problem. No one needs to buy one of those. Even for gun enthusiasts and hunters, no one needs an AK-47 or similar. Also mental health evaluations and licenses. You can't outlaw it, it's too open already, but making it harder will help. I don't know why people are against gun regulation. You should regulate ANY weapon or tool that can cause harm, both on purpose, but also on accident.
I live in connecticut. A dad of one of the elementary schoolers who died in the sandy hook shooting came to our school. It's a different experience watching a parent cry over the loss of their child. It hurts as it should.
I cant even imagine the amount of emotional pain the victims parents would have to go through... seeing your kid one morning only to find out you’d never see them again...
It’s so scary when your siblings go to the same school because you have to constantly worry about them especially during a surprise drill so you don’t even know if it’s real or not
I remember when I was in band practice in middle School my teacher said there was a shooting at my sister's school he didn't know my sister went there and I almost cried and I begged him to go call my mom you wouldn't believe the relief I had when she told me my sister woke up late that day.
We're all home-schooled now, but I used to memorize all their classes and where they were, just in case. I was deadass ready to die for them if something happened.
What surprised me is that they have never heard a gunshot before. I didn’t realize they weren’t allowed to have guns. But in America it normal for me to hear gunshots almost every day so it’s kinda became a normal occurrence
Yeah it’s very strange to me. My Secondary School had a highway right behind it and one day while some gardeners were taking care of a large bush on on of the exits they found a homeless man living in a tent. He had a gun and he shot at them. The entire school went on a lockdown and hours later it was revealed that he (TRIGGER WARNING SUICIDE) shot himself in the head with the gun and his body was found in the tent.
@@anonymoustangerine Not really. I live in a middle class semi-closed community and I still here gunshots every other day, more or less. It can be anything from an actual shooting to someone hunting in the woods near by.
Fr like I remember my first school shooting drill in pre-k like my school was pre-k to 5th grade so yeah everyone was freaking out and over the years I’ve gotten used to it
I went to high school in the US in the 90s at a time when the term "lockdown" meant that police dogs came sniffing for drugs in everyone's locker and nobody was allowed to leave the classrooms in case a student was going to throw their stash away.
Lock down to me is getting a door support beam and installing it on the door huddling next to each other trying not to cry and texting our parents we love them. I’ve been in suspected school shooting alarms that weren’t drills. I though I was going to die. He brought the gun to school and told people he had it. We went on a level 3 lockdown and we’re absolutely terrified. He never shot it and hurt everyone. There was another incident where a kid was airdropping a text message saying he was going to shoot up the school. We were locked down then too. These incidents were about three or four days apart. I texted my Dad and My Mom and told them I loved them. I didn’t know if I was gonna make it home.
As an elementary student teacher, it breaks my heart that we have to practice for school shootings. It’s scary and I just imagine how the kids feel, but I’d do anything to protect those kids.
@@sofiamoreno9178 They do do stuff about it, but they do the wrong things. Shaming law abiding gun owners or banning guns doesnt stop it. Every school shooter has 1 thing in common. All of them were on some type of mood/mental medication.
@@Pyramanager I am not trying to shame gun owners (at least the ones that do the right thing with it) I am shaming gun owners who think school shootings are fake ever since sandy hook. To be honest I do think America should do something about it but I don't know what I'm kinda stuck in between I listen to both sides and I really don't know.
I am a preschool teacher in the United States and we do active shooter drills with our classes. It makes me sad and mad that I have to do these drills with 2 year olds.
This reminds me of that video of a tiny girl at home showing her mom how she stands on the toilet and stays quiet to avoid being seen by the bad guys. She says it all so matter-of-factly because that's just her reality already. :(
Yeah I was in kindergarten during Sandy hook, my cousin’s school went on lockdown for it. But I never felt too safe afterwards. I might’ve been young but I noticed the pawn shop that sold guns a few min walk from school... Idk I just wished it stopped
Im so sorry you have to go through that with such young kids over and over again. All my respect is to the teachers in these situations. Thank you for everything you do!
Wait 2 year olds go to school? I thought school started from ages 4 and up? I do agree though, it's really sad children have to go through this. I remember sandy hook happening when I was in 2nd grade and after that event happening, my school did lockdown drills way more than before.
@@danad3838 Edit: I just realized they aren’t maybe day care? Idk tho I always think kindergarten starts at 3 oops-. I think if you went to pre-k then yeah. Some kindergartners are 3 I think tho.
I'm from Australia and all throughout my school life whenever there was a lockdown I never once thought it was because of guns, that was the last thing I'd expect, and seeing these stories from America it makes me so sad because you shouldn't go to school and fear you might die because of a shooting. I wish their gun laws were more strict.
before covid hit, i used to go to high school school everyday and at random moments feel paranoid that a shooting might occur-- it honestly is a sad reality in america. school shooting mostly occur in high schools. i'd say it's an ongoing epidemic. obviously because of covid, most people aren't in school anymore but once school opens again, i'm still going to feel anxious. you never know what will happen.
Yea it really is scary. Almost every year we watch videos on school shooters and afterward we are told to be observant because anyone could do it. I am often paranoid about school shootings what I would do. My school had a bomb threat before and we were sitting for hours as the police dogs searched. Fortunately they found nothing but many students are paranoid and scared to go to school. The one good thing about covid is that we have a short respite from the fear.
I know what you mean. As a foreigner who moved to America, I was a little shocked when I did the first shooter drill in class. Then after knowing about all the previous shootings in the US, it's hard not letting it get to you. High school is difficult enough as it is. In a way, I'm glad the pandemic has kept my siblings at home....
me as well. My highschool had a ruthless bullying culture and it was a struggle every morning to leave my house. If i heard a door of my classroom being opened i nearly panicked.
I was shocked to hear that girl has never seen a gun in person being an American who lives in the south because here everybody has a gun. My grandpa keeps one under his pillow lol. Also I hear gunshots multiple times a day... people hunt all around our property so it’s just normal
My legal tutor has a gun in his house I think almost everyone from Texas does tbh it’s sad I’ve also heard multiple gunshots not only in the US but also in Mexico since I’m from both places it’s really sad
@@danieladlsss13 100%. i live in texas and my mom only got rid of her gun when i started showing signs of being suicidal. to be fair, she got it before i was born because she had a crazy stalker ex boyfriend, but it's common place to have at least one here
i started crying when she said she had never heard or seen a gun before, i never thought that there were people that hadn't seen one before, wow the us is fucked up
Theres a shooting range behind my school for officers, so everyone hears a bunch of firing behind the school. Luckily its after school hours, so we dont hear it durung class
i remember after the MSD shooting everyone was afraid to go to school and when we did no one laughed or talked or even smiled and the teachers could barely function we were so afraid that it would happen again that everyone was always on edge and then someone outside of my school decided to prank the police and said there was a shooter at our school and we all cried and were hugging each other and all you could hear were heavy boots of the swat team and in the window you could see their guns and when they checked that it was just a false alarm we were able to leave early as everyones parents were contacted in a mass emergency call (edit: we were in the middle of making cards for MSD and it was the first day we came back and the person who prank called was a student from another school in the area)
I remember you could feel the heavy dread the first months after the shooting, it’s even worse because it was so close to home, I remember being in my 8th period we were on code yellow since there was a lockdown near by, little did any of us know 17 lives were being taken just a few miles away.
Yea it scary to think that it can happen to you.. You are just wonderingif you are gonna make it out alive..Hopefully I didn't go to school when a similar story happened.
my two cousins were freshman’s at MSD when it happened and they were in that same building and to this day there’s still a sense of reverence whenever it’s mentioned
I live in a small town and there's been a gang knife fight inside my school, multiple people have brought guns to school, I watched a kid almost taze someone, and there's tons of fights. Sad thing is the school never announces these things, takes care of it secretly and even try to hide it so other students wouldn't freak out.
Am I the only one who's schools didn't take drills serously. Like I didn't even know what the were until recently. I was always told "it's nothing to worry about" and then did nothing. The most of a drill i've ever gotten was turning off the lights and finishing the assignment as quietly as I could.
same I only did one drill in the 4 yrs I was in high school even after multiple threats no one took it seriously the principal legit went on the intercom and thanked ppl for actually showing up the day of the threat. Like its sad tbh cause it wasn't a far fetch idea for it to happen at my school but still no one took it seriously.
My elementary took drills seriously... We’d do it at least 4 times during the whole school year, I remember in grade 7, we had a drill and I honestly thought it’d be those short drills. But it lasted for 2 hours. We were sitting in uncomfortable spots (because where you in ur desk, you are designated in different corners, mine was near the desks for teachers so we went under the desks which was awfully uncomfortable). We started taking it serious when it lasted for 30 mins and we’d hear rattle noises outside. Then an hour came and the teacher walked towards us and grabbed a bat, thats when we all got scared thinking it was actually real. Then another hour past and we hear a knock saying “We are the police” blah blah, then they slid a business card underneath confirming it’s real police officers and they started explaining this would what a real drill would look like. And honestly i’m glad they did that, to let us know that it’s important, even tho my school never had a school shooting before (or in a really long time), they still take it serious. Mostly my art teacher who actually experienced a school shooting when she was younger.
Yeah my teachers just didn’t take them seriously and used the blackout curtains quickly said “ur supposed to go under ur desks, but just continue ur work”. But I in my area people think it might not happen, but I think it could a middle school nearby got a false call threat tho. Also our school has lots of minorities, so we could be a target (Asian tho)
@@katiemp670 Yeah, there was actually a gun shop like 3min walk from my school. And there’s a gun range near my home. I’m not sure if the bangs at night are fireworks or that. But they sound more like shots and the gun range is closed I think. But I hope I’m wrong
@@katiemp670 not everywhere gun shots means criminality. In switzerland everyone is used to gunshots, because there is a shooting range in every little village. Its for training the militia of our country
I remember in the second week of the start of 6th grade, it was during lunch and an intruder jumped over the gate and i didn’t realize it until my friend grabbed me and started dragging me towards a science classroom. it was terrifying and luckily no one was hurt but I wonder if I didn’t realize there was an intruder, I could’ve been hurt.
we had drills 3 times a month for school shootings and we also go into lockdown if a neighboring school goes into lock down. I remember when the school up the street from my elementary school which was a middle school went into lockdown because a mentally unstable man with a rifle was walking up and down the halls I hate when adults say it'll never happen here it can happen anywhere at anytime that's why a lot of people are scared to go to school.
That kind of reminds me of what happened at my high school. Some crazy dude showed up after school with a gun and was just walking around outside my school. It was after school so everyone was in clubs or doing sports, so we were put on lockdown in the gym and locker rooms and the people out in the sports fields had to hide under the bleachers on the baseball field. I caught a glimpse of the guy after he was arrested: he was some old man with a long scraggly beard, uncut hair, and wearing sweats. Disgusting. And this isn't even the only time. In my University, there were a couple other similar incidents. It really can happen anywhere at anytime.
As someone from Colorado and in High School, it scares me everyday that we could have a shooting. We have to go through a lot of protocols because of it, its something that kids shouldn’t have to worry about anywhere in the world though.
Just in the past few years has my high school taught us ALICE - Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate. I always remember doing shooter drills since I began school but it was always turn the lights off and hide. When the old system was implemented there were a lot of drive by shootings at schools and it was safer to hide in the corners of the rooms (this is what I was told) but now they have it where you actually do something instead of being sitting ducks bc the shooter knows school is in session and you are not going to fool them by turning off the lights.
I had similar drills. I think the idea of turning off the lights wasn't to "fool" them into thinking no one is in the school, but rather no one is in those specific rooms. Mainly the exercises we did were just for intruders. Shootings when I grew up weren't really a problem yet. It wasn't till I was out of high school or in high school that it became common enough to warrant it's own form of lockdown. The most common drill was the fire drill where everyone went outside.
Maybe just me but when I was in high school I used to daydream what I would do if there was a shooter in the school. Obviously I’d take down the shooter but still kinda weird that other people in the world don’t even daydream about a realistic situation that could happen here
I just graduated high school and I’m grateful that I was lucky enough to not experience such a horrible event. Cause I remembering one day during class a threat was made that made us go into a lockdown but nothing happened but it was enough for us to fear. And days after that the school became extra vigilant to ensure all students and staffs safety.
I live in America and seeing how they reacted, honestly I forgot that this type of thing isn't normal. About a week ago a mall close to my home had a shooting going on and I have gotten so used to it which is sad.
The Virginia tech shooter was Korean-American, and his actions sparked a conversation about mental health treatment in Korean culture. Might make for an interesting video
@@lightup6751 cause cultures like that don’t speak about it at all, I mean I don’t listen to Kpop but I’ve heard a lot about bullying being so common with kids committing suicide and the adults not really ‘caring’ in a way, the west is talks about it much more than eastern countries and that’s the problem
I remember a school shooting happened about 15 minutes away from my school , so they put us on lockdown too . Our teachers kept saying that the shooter was on the loose . I cried sitting in the corner of my class . I was thinking about all the happy memories with my family & apologizing for all the bad ones. It’s normal in America to fear for your life at all times .
This made me teary-eyed. I have not realized how lucky I am studying in such a peaceful environment. I cannot imagine how scared the victims and survivors of these mass shootings were, it just made me feel thankful for every little thing possible about my life. I'm sending my prayers to all of the victims. Rest in peace.
Going to school you know your teachers you know your friends and your best friends. And specific to me, my sister goes to my school. Which means that when you go into an unplanned lockdown it is extremely difficult and some kids find it really traumatic. If we go into lockdown my sister is in a whole other part of the building which means we are gambling the odds of us both making it out alive and some rooms are safer than others. I couldn’t get to my sister if I needed too. She could be killed and I wouldn’t know until long after. It’s genuinely terrifying the more you put yourself in that situation.
The sad thing is when I was in school we just called them “lockdown drills” for anything other than a fire drill. We did many of the same things they did in these clips, but one time in middle school there was an actual lockdown going on while there was an investigation For a potential bomb after there was a note in a bathroom. There was no bomb luckily, it was a bad prank and the girl got in major trouble, but we just sat at our desks during it and I remember us being stupid, ignorant kids in our boredom and anxiety not knowing what was going on, the group of 4 I was sitting with literally discussed a plan of tossing the recycling bin over the intruders head and throwing a chair at them to buy time if they broke in since we were situated closest to the door. Obviously a suicide mission and sadly enough I kind of knew that then. I feel like when I was in school, they didn’t do nearly as many lockdowns as they did fire though. Now in college they literally have active shooter guides on the walls all over the building with instructions on what to do in the hallways, bathrooms, and classrooms. This is reality.
AT least you wouldn't go down without a fight. I would have done the same thing that or jump out a window because you're a sitting duck in a classroom.
I think throughout my highschool experience we had like 3 pranks about bombs/guns and no one ever took them seriously and it goes to show how desensitized these things can be
@@byronhenry6518 you can’t have guns in school and besides if you were to pull out your gun and shoot the shooter it’s possible someone will pull out their gun and shoot you thinking you may be the shooter and so on. In such a chaotic traumatizing moment the chaos could very well cause confusion and let this happen.
@@grey_2361 That has never happened in any case where an armed citizen stopped a robber/suspect/shooter. Not to my knowledge anyway. Obviously students shouldn’t be allowed to bring guns to school. But doesn’t it make sense to allow staff members who already carry a firearm off campus to bring it to work? I’m not saying give the unstable 80 year old math teacher a free gun. I’m saying the teachers who are ex-military, law enforcement, avid hunters, or concealed carriers who are already use guns to carry their gun to work. Imagine you’re locked in the classroom and some emo kid is walking around with a shotgun. Wouldn’t you feel better if your teacher had a gun pointed at the door? Or are you content with just being a lamb waiting for the slaughter?
Came back to this video after hearing about the shooting that took place in a elementary recently and it's crazy how this stuff is still happening and it does seem like it's gonna end any time soon
I remember when we would have drills no one took them serious and would just fool around. But when the parkland shooting happened the reality started to settle in. When we had drills sometimes some of us worried they might have been real
Eh, I’d understand if children may be confused by such an intense and dark concept but even children learn about these sorts of things at a young age. Like the people above my comment said, they just refuse to tackle the issue due to their incompetence.
@@Karkarbroom To overthrown the government if it ever becomes tyrannical. The 2nd Amendment gives you the right to bear arms and if the government ever takes away the 2nd Amendment, that would be seen as tyrannical also.
What's even scarier is that even when children's lives are on the line, our government refuses to take any meaningful action to protect them. Gun violence is *extremely* prevalent in the US. I forgot how intrinsic this fear is until I heard you all talk about it. I just don't notice how scared I am every day, even though just last month my neighbor was shot in his car in the middle of the day. It makes me quite jealous that other people don't have to live with this fear.
no its just we are not going to take the rights of millions over a few isolated incidents... you are 5 times more likely to die from medical malpractice than firearms violence in the US and you are more likely to get struck by lightning multiple times than die via a mass shooting incident... The media just likes to play it up because dramatic stories sell...
@@happyjohn354 even though it’s rare it should never be happening at all. medical malpractice is more common because medical care is an every day thing. although I personally don’t think it should be outright banned, they should at least make obtaining a gun harder
@@sab-nm9di That's the problem people get hurt because of someone irresponsible and then start screaming for someone with power to do something so they don't have to... The person in power does so to reinforce their power and popularity Thus making life harder for the average responsible citizen... I don't care how many people were hurt because some nutjob decided to hurt people or do something stupid don't put restrictions on me... I'm just minding my own business after all...
@@happyjohn354 “i dont care how many people were hurt..” no this mindset is the problem. you’re not, and you dont think you will be, a victim of gun violence therefore fuck all those who are. if you’re right in the head and have nothing to hide, then minding your own business should be completely possible
@@sab-nm9di Its statistically unlikely that I will be but if I am I'm prepared... That's the thing I'm not going forcing laws on other people because I'm weak like you are trying to... I'm taking care of myself...
It is terrifying, schools and us as the students had to take everything seriously. I remember being stuck in a dark practice room (for instruments) for more than 30 minutes after there were threats made and had no idea what was happening or what was going to happen. This is the normality though, I live in not the best of areas but not the worse, and there are always random booms or shots heard too many times than they should be but it's normal I guess-
I was in my senior year of high school when Columbine happened. I remember watching it unfold on the news and felt overwhelming sadness and sick. It was like something went off, saying this was just the beginning.
At my school someone was stabbed and we all didn't know what was happening in the beginning because it was the start of 3rd period. The dean came on the speakers and told us it was a lockdown and we where all so scared because we didn't know what was happening. We eventually found out what happened after they got the kid that stabbed someone. The whole time i was just waiting to hear the gunshots and i was thinking that it was another shooting thankfully it wasn't but it was still really scary. We got let go early and when i got home my mom just hugged me and my brothers.
I remember the drills in my high school-- we didn't have blinds on the door or even bothered to move any desks, but I do remember that the local police brought the K9 unit through the halls during the drills and would bang at the door/try at the doorknobs. To be honest, none of us took it very seriously, but it was scary when our teachers would explain that the reason they stand closest to the door is to protect the rest of us, even with their life. Even now, I make escape plans for everywhere I go and keep multiple things for self-defense on my person. At work, we've had a couple customers become violent/carry weapons and I think back to my teachers and realize that I could very well have to be that protector for the people in the building I work in. That kind of thought process always continues in the background, and it is scary how unconscious and instinctual it is at this point. On a funny note, during one of our active shooter drills at school, a kid got busted for keeping drugs in his locker by one of the police dogs.
A lot of schools have cops assigned to them these days, at least in my region. It was reassuring when I was in school to know an armed cop was always there in case of situations like this.
Yeah we had a cop too and I never really felt safe. He was mostly just there to look like he was helping and bother kids about weed or whatever. I think Uvalde proved they aren’t the answer
The only thing that changed after Sandy Hook was people were MORE angry that there was a push to limit guns. That's when I gave up hope for this country.
Actually, why do citizens get to purchase firearms? In most NORMAL countries, only the police & military are allowed to bear firearms. But then again, with how lousy the gun control & laws are in the US, there's no way to get rid of guns completely now.
@@niji8164 Yeah and their governments can run roughshod all over their people. "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have." - Thomas Jefferson You know what every dictatorship had in common? An unarmed populace because then it's difficult for the citizenry to rise up against tyranny.
@@IronFreee guns are important to American society. If school staff actually took the time to learn what is happening in their school, most of these school shootings wouldn’t happen.
Sad but true. 20 children, elementary school students in Newtown, shot to death in 2012...and NOTHING CHANGED. I hate to say it as an American, but we're a sick fucking country. Our politicians literally take money from the National Rifle Association to make sure nothing changes, and we vote them in again, term after term. It's disgusting.
@@kurousagi8155 Guns are important, you need them when you want to visit the Capitol or when you want to occupy in Portland. It's not school staff job to police students. Teachers in my country don't do it and there's no massacre. Why? Because kids don't have the option to take an automatic gun to school.
I remember the school shooting that happened on Valentine’s days a couple years ago. I remember leaving my last class and walking to the bus ramp when I heard a lot of whispers and gasp, people were shocked at what they were looking at. I finally got on the bus and saw that a school 30 minutes away had a school shooting and it was terrifying. The entire bus ride was silent, which usually doesn’t happen. I remember my school getting so many threats after that incident...there was even a photo that said my school was next. It was extremely scary and made everyone extremely worried. This should never ever happen to anyone. School is supposed to feel safe! You should be worried about this stuff!!
One of this days I was wondering why I haven’t seen any school shootings over this past year in the news. Maybe people grew up or something, or at least they learned that guns are for savages. But then I remembered that there’s not schools and that you can’t shoot through a screen. I laughed out of irony.
It’s weird that I hear jokes about it all the time and I’ve even laughed at some without a thought. It hurts to realize how sad and horrible the reality of the situation is
I use to be at this school I remember there was police officers every time to guide the school and they will always check everyone’s bag to make sure no one don’t have any weapon so I always feel safe when there’s police who are protecting the school I wish every school in America had police to always protect.
Yeah but they tend to cause more trouble. I’d prefer some that are trained to handle kids cuz on normal days... Also they don’t to engage if they think there isn’t enough backup
My school had multiple false alarms with this type of stuff. We would have people post that they will be a school shooter on social media or stuff like that. When I was in middle school, we stayed three hours after school because someone walked across the street with a JROTC gun. Then we also had to almost evacuate because of a false alarm of a bomb. Public school can be freaky
My high-school had a false alarm as well in my junior year, it was the same thing where it was posted on social media and the only reason people knew about it was because students were telling their parent and their friends, the school didn't even know about it till my mom and a bunch of other parents called about it. Since my mom found out about it before school even started she came from work to pick us up and by that time police were out front.
same, apparently there was a rumor that our neighboring school was going to shoot down ours but thankfully they were arrested (i think, its still a rumor) so yeah
same. two instances of social media threats, and one we thought was real for a bit. It came very randomly like five mins before the end of the school day. i was in the library with my history teacher and class. I got really freaked out because the library windows were tinted but giant and itd be easy to see us. there were helicopters, armed policed, police in full tactical gear. i remember police with giant guns making us walk single file with our hands up to leave campus. it turned out a film class student was playing around with friends and had a tripod and was holding it like a rifle and turning corners like someone who was hunting or looking to shoot. a teacher saw it and immediately called the front office thinking it was a rifle and front office saw it on camera, didnt realize it was a tripod, and called the police.
i’ve been doing school shooting drills since kindergarten, and at first i had no idea what we were doing sitting on the floor all huddled up. i’m a lot older now, and i’ve gotten so used to it-- my school does “surprise drills” really often, and it’s to the point where i get so scared every time the principal makes an announcement or the bell rings because i never know if it’s real or fake. i’m only in middle school, and yet i’ve always been making plans for how to escape each classroom if i needed to whenever i’m bored- it’s so messed up. not only in school, but in movie theaters i get so scared i won’t be able to escape if there’s a shooting, and even at my own dance recitals i’m scared of it. i’ve heard gunshots multiple times, there was once a shooting a block away from a grocery store i was at with my mom, and it happened on the block our car was parked. if we had taken just a bit longer to get out of our car, i can’t even imagine what would have happened. this is what living in america is like.
Its so sad. I was in the 5th grade when the parkland shooting happened. The school i went to was like 20 min away from the school and I was so scared. When I went home and saw the news I couldn't even move. That school was so close that it could have been me ☹
As a kid I always dreamed about going to an American highschool, but as a I grew older I realised that what we see in the movies is NOTHING like real life
@@kaylaeubanks9313 yeahhh ofc ofc, i get that there’s a low chance, i just mean personally over all the whole idea of the perfect american teen dream was broken once I grew up 🤣
@@kaylaeubanks9313 i think they mean the entire culture of american highschools, like the ones that make it possible for a thing like a shooting to happen
It’s just awful, especially when people take it as a joke. Like how another commenter has said. Things would go around and then we have to go on lockdown, fortunately there has never been a time where there was a shooter. But one time someone outside of our school did come over and we were on lockdown. It was just a girlfriend of this dude. It’s frustrating how you can’t just get a schools permission or just meet after school instead of trespassing and making the school on a lockdown.
I'm grateful I don't live in America where people are obsessed with the bible yet they don't practice it's teachings. Where people are afraid of other people that look different and persecute them because people believe they're the superior race and the world and other countries revolves around them. Where people would rather believe the words of selfish egomaniacs than proven facts.
@@davidboggs4331 I agree fully, I am religious personally and sometimes I get embarrassed because the world depicts us by how they act and they sometimes don’t act how I personally think we should. I am so grateful to not be there as well but I hope everyone avoids and is safe from the shootings and all the horrors they may face there 💕
@@davidboggs4331 I don't know where you've been getting your news or information, but none of that crap is representative of the US. If you were to tell me there's "systemic racism" or some other nonsense, I wouldn't know what the hell you were talking about other than it being some sensationalist news talking point. Don't believe everything you read or hear, especially from mainstream American news like CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Wallstreet Journal, etc. Our media is very partisan and is politically compromised. There's a lot of bad information you have to sift through to find the truth.
@@MelodusDethicus Racism happens every damn day and you're a fool to think otherwise. Put the kool aid down and stop listening to the republicans that are brainwashing you. You have ZERO right to say racism doesn't exist and on a systematic scale. Let me guess. You're white, living in a mostly white neighborhood and town and a trump supporter with a lot of guns.
@@MelodusDethicus the fact that you think systemic racism doesn’t exist here is insane. It’s incredible how so many people are ignorant and privileged like yourself.
I actually knew a man who was a student during the columbine shootings, and, surprisingly enough, he hasn't gone anywhere without a gun since. he told me "I didn't have a gun when I needed it, and now I'll never be unprepared again." He told me about watching his friend die, and how blood got all over him. Being an American is really heartbreaking sometimes, even if, objectively, we have it easy.
@@ahsookee true but the thing is those people might not even have any ACTUAL mental problems and are just evil human beings. We need to stop the excuse of “they had mental issues that’s why” like bs, I’m not gonna sit here when someone ik just got shot by someone and have someone be telling me “ it’s cause they got mental issues”
@@ahsookee Some states do have this as part of their background checks. Others do not. Usually it's just a criminal background check, and what disqualifies you (once again) varies by state. In some states, it's misdemeanors, in others felonies, and in some others you simply have to have been accused of a crime involving violence, a weapon, or (for some reason) drugs. State laws vary wildly.
@@ahsookee yea i's very easy to get a gun and even worse the police don't need to take a mental test anymore so they can be just a bad or even worse but they're the law enforcers
I'm was actually curious to know how they feel about the Virginia Tech shooting, as the boy who committed the massacre was Korean-American. I think they would be even more surprised by that
The fact that its kids always gets me. I remember watching the sandy hook promise psa and bawling my eyes out. Thankfully I'm not in high-school anymore but when I was, all of my anxiety disorders made me on high alert. I was so scared of assemblies. But the younger the victims the more it hurts. Sandy hook still makes me cry. The thought of a parent happily taking their child to school to learn about fractions and not thinking much of it until they get a call. And their child is in danger through no fault of their own, they can't do anything but pray. It hurts. It hurts to live in a country where instead of addressing the problem, we're forced to adapt. These kids shouldn't have to know this drill. They should be singing songs about colors. They should be preparing for the SATs. They shouldn't be thinking of how to bandage a bullet wound. It hurts. All shootings are horrid. But the schools, those hurt the most.
Here’s some very scary facts about school shootings in 2019 prior to quarantine where schools were shut down: - within 46 weeks there were 45 school shootings within that time period. - 32 were in schools that taught K - 12 Here’s another scary fact about 2019: - there were more mass shootings than there were days in the year. - there was a total 417 mass shootings in 2019 - keep in mind a mass shooting is defined as 4 or more people shot which means that there were more than 417 shootings in a year Bc it didn’t count if only 3 ppl were shot. The only reason that school shootings aren’t being discussed or heard of now is bc schools have closed due to corona. Each year there is an increase in school shootings and if 2019 wasn’t bad enough imagine how much worse it could have been if there wasn’t a dangerous virus in 2020 that prevented students from going to school. Many people don’t see a problem with the lack of gun control in the US but it’s seriously getting out of hand. Anyone over the age of 18 can get there hands on a gun legally and that is scary. Sorry for my rant, but as a student, this honestly is very scary knowing all this yet I can’t do anything about it since I’m not old enough to vote and lawmakers only care about there own agendas.
I'm in Australia and I've never seen a gun before or heard a gunshot, I can't imagine the horror and pain people in America must go through for shootings to be a common fear.
in my middle school we received a school shooting threat and the administration did nothing about it. They just sent out a message letting parents be aware of the situation. They still held school that day and didn’t even provide us with additional police officers other than the two security guards that are always there. Luckily it turned out to be an empty threat but it still sticks to me because my mom new about the threat and sent me to school anyway. (I have also been met with a school shooting situation when I was in 1st or 2nd grade but i don’t remember any of it besides what i’ve been told.)
i have memories of lockdown drills from early elementary school and now i’m a college student. it’s crazy how school shootings have been a threat for almost the entirety of my education
In middle school, I had a similar experience. It was the first day of school and we were all in the lunchroom when an older kid came into school with a gun. The teacher had to rush us through the back door and upstairs. Honestly, it freaked me out a bit, especially since they were right outside the lunchroom door. Lucky we had metal detectors and security.
I remember my first lockdown drill in kindergarten. My biggest concern was how dark the room was, but I got used to it pretty quickly, and it was never a concern again.
Access to guns in America is so crazy, literally anyone can buy them illegally. I literally know TEENS who have semi automatics and pistols just from hitting up a plug on snap.
Also, I thought you were going to show ‘If Anything Happens, I Love You’ on Netflix. It’s a short, silent animated movie that details the life of parents dealing with the loss of their young daughter to a school shooting incident.
Disappointing to say but we haven’t improved in preventing school shootings. 27 school shooting have happened since 2021, heartbreaking numbers. Rest In Peace to the 19 children killed in the Robb Elementary in Texas and to the 3 adults who unfortunately passed with them. Many futures were robbed on May 24, 2 days before summer break. May God help the families of the victims.
