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I Survived A School Shooting And It Affected Me For Life
I Survived A School Shooting And It Affected Me For Life
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I Survived A School Shooting And It Affected Me For Life

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    I was outside the school, hanging out with my friends before our first class. Suddenly, we heard the lady from the front office over our school’s intercom: ‘Lockdown immediately, lockdown immediately!’ We understood that something bad was happening. So, I rushed into my first class and everything went silent. No one knew what was going on, even our teacher. And I think that was the scariest part. The entire atmosphere in the class was just confusion and terror.

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    Gintarė Kozakaitė

    Gintarė Kozakaitė

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    Gintare is a project manager at Bored Panda. Here, she coordinates the project based on true teenagers' stories called Dear Diary. She graduated with a BA in Information And Communication and MA in New Media And Digital Culture. Before joining Bored Panda, she was creating social documentaries and working as a journalist. Her greatest inspiration is people who dare to be different. And well, she truly believes that some great stories actually start with a salad. By the way, she laughs more than she talks. True story.

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    Gintarė Kozakaitė

    Gintarė Kozakaitė

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    Gintare is a project manager at Bored Panda. Here, she coordinates the project based on true teenagers' stories called Dear Diary. She graduated with a BA in Information And Communication and MA in New Media And Digital Culture. Before joining Bored Panda, she was creating social documentaries and working as a journalist. Her greatest inspiration is people who dare to be different. And well, she truly believes that some great stories actually start with a salad. By the way, she laughs more than she talks. True story.

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    Claes Gustavsson
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gun control. In Sweden, we've had one school shooting, but that was in 1961. And we are a land of hunters, lots of guns. Unfortunately, in recent years there have been shootings, but always gang-related. Illegal. When it happens, it's news.

    Lucinda Overhoussen
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Illegal guns are much harder to get hold of. In the states you can pick one up in with the eggs and milk. Bullied teen has access to his parents semi automatic(s) what could possibly go wrong? Mass shootings on daily basis happen because people can pick up combat grade weapons without checks at gunshows, and what's worse is that enough of Americans are ok with this, that the laws don't change that would make this happen less frequently. The fact that share prices for gun manufacturers jump when there's a huge "newsworthy" shooting is just plain 4ucked up

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    Foxxy
    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am so sorry, I hope with time you can heal from this. I haven’t watched the news in about 3 years because it is just too depressing. Senseless killing all the time, innocent lives lost. So much hate and anger. It’s a sad sad world we live in.

    Lauren Kaufmann
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Im in high school in the same area. When our school heard about the shooting, we were so scared for our friends there and had no clue what was going on. Even when you aren't in immediate danger, its still so terrifying.

    Petra
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are countries where these things never happen. It is present time, not future. I am lucky in many ways to live here. I hope kids like him will make America great again.

    Renita McAfee
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    According to Americans, those kids from parkland who protest gun accessibility are cowards who should get over it. Just consider where we are as a society that we get angry at people who are angry about their friends being gunned down at school.

    Magpie
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am so sorry anyone had to go through this. I am also sorry I cannot bear to watch this video. I do not understand why the mongrels that sell those over powered guns are not in jail.

    Cat Kittey
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Such a sad day for all involved. Too bad the authorities don't crack down more on bullies, because that is usually what triggers these events.

    BusLady
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm with you on that one. Schools tend to be way too tolerant about bullying. A bullied kid could gain access to a gun from a relative. That may well be what happened here.

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    Tripp Lea
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    IM JUST GLAD YOUR'RE OK MAN! WE GOTTA SPREAD MORE POSITIVE ENERGY!

    Useless Panda
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

    So, what you're telling me is that you "survived" a shooting that was pretty much just a single murder in which the assailant surrendered immediately after the incident and that scarred you for life. Also it happened to be in a school. ...

    Max Harkins
    Community Member
    6 years ago

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    All I can say is that IT WAS NOT THE GUN'S FAULT!

    Claes Gustavsson
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gun control. In Sweden, we've had one school shooting, but that was in 1961. And we are a land of hunters, lots of guns. Unfortunately, in recent years there have been shootings, but always gang-related. Illegal. When it happens, it's news.

    Lucinda Overhoussen
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Illegal guns are much harder to get hold of. In the states you can pick one up in with the eggs and milk. Bullied teen has access to his parents semi automatic(s) what could possibly go wrong? Mass shootings on daily basis happen because people can pick up combat grade weapons without checks at gunshows, and what's worse is that enough of Americans are ok with this, that the laws don't change that would make this happen less frequently. The fact that share prices for gun manufacturers jump when there's a huge "newsworthy" shooting is just plain 4ucked up

    Load More Replies...
    Foxxy
    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am so sorry, I hope with time you can heal from this. I haven’t watched the news in about 3 years because it is just too depressing. Senseless killing all the time, innocent lives lost. So much hate and anger. It’s a sad sad world we live in.

    Lauren Kaufmann
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Im in high school in the same area. When our school heard about the shooting, we were so scared for our friends there and had no clue what was going on. Even when you aren't in immediate danger, its still so terrifying.

    Petra
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are countries where these things never happen. It is present time, not future. I am lucky in many ways to live here. I hope kids like him will make America great again.

    Renita McAfee
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    According to Americans, those kids from parkland who protest gun accessibility are cowards who should get over it. Just consider where we are as a society that we get angry at people who are angry about their friends being gunned down at school.

    Magpie
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am so sorry anyone had to go through this. I am also sorry I cannot bear to watch this video. I do not understand why the mongrels that sell those over powered guns are not in jail.

    Cat Kittey
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Such a sad day for all involved. Too bad the authorities don't crack down more on bullies, because that is usually what triggers these events.

    BusLady
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm with you on that one. Schools tend to be way too tolerant about bullying. A bullied kid could gain access to a gun from a relative. That may well be what happened here.

    Load More Replies...
    Tripp Lea
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    IM JUST GLAD YOUR'RE OK MAN! WE GOTTA SPREAD MORE POSITIVE ENERGY!

    Useless Panda
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

    So, what you're telling me is that you "survived" a shooting that was pretty much just a single murder in which the assailant surrendered immediately after the incident and that scarred you for life. Also it happened to be in a school. ...

    Max Harkins
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

    All I can say is that IT WAS NOT THE GUN'S FAULT!

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