Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- They walk out under the branches of hopelessness
They think of this world welcoming
the bodies of their sons.
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Re Mora Ha. Nice joke.
Wait, you serious?
This was deep, thank you
kinda click bait but ight
While being a good solution I think that building shooter proof schools isn't addressing a more fundamental problem, which is "Why are those shooters doing what they do? What can be done to prevent that?". Let's say somebody wants to commit some harm, maybe kill some people, by making the school more safe that doesn't mean that there can't a "parking lot shooter".
Man watching any of your videos while on a sativa just makes it more thrilling and creepy and my search for answers more pressing
Honestly when i was younger we had "intruder drills" and i never even thought it would be about another student. In my mind it was always like "oh some dangerous dude broke out of prison and is rampaging across the county".
They just never really told us about it till high school
If we're around the same age, I don't think that was the motivation until we were in high-school. Or school system does more and more hard lock-down drills every-time there's a shooting. Since the shooting in North Florida (a similar school to ours), our school has quadrupled the police presence afaik, installed a new security system, and has doubled the rate that we do drills... and with it the number of fake and/or intervened threats has increased too. Just this week, there was a fake bomb threat. Yesterday, there was noticeably fewer people hanging out in the hallways.
Yeah, that's exactly how it was for me
I thought the same, Beggo. Although, Drills were extremely rare. This is probably because I lived in a pretty small town, so everyone was at least acquainted with each other, so shooters had a lot less reason to shoot the school. Even the weird quiet kids have at least a small circle of 1-2 friends. Also, a lot of people turn to drugs or alcohol at my high school. They're too high or drunk to attempt that stuff.
Yeah but now days little children have phones far too early. Some probably know.
That's what they told us too. Never really considered the idea that a student could do those things
Teacher: "If there is an Active Shooter Situation, hide in this *hidden* closet."
Shooter: "Thanks. I'll keep that in mind."
That’s what I always joke
I couldn't make that joke in a country with tight gun control. Or the metric system probably. Idk the joke.
@@suprafluid3661 the student is a shooter
@@suprafluid3661 actually look up China and mass stabbings targeting children. lol oops
@@fishsmell2570 Damit their at it again. Outsmarted me yet again.
"We're hiring an architect to design our new elementary school. What are you qualifications?"
"I made five custom counter strike maps"
"You're hired"
oh man if only getting a job was that easy, fmpone would be making millions right now
@@klevmeister1g definitely
Cache has generous amounts of cover
Even an APC for god's sake
@@shardinhand1243 north Korea
@@shardinhand1243 no I mean the security guards, heavily reinforced security room, and public executions.
The saddest part about this video, is that you can watch any day of the year hell probably even a decade from now and still say "wow, I thought this video was about today's incident but it was made __ years ago".
Yeah
Wa ssuprised when he said in 2019
This is still the case sadly.
Yeah, it's been nearly half a decade since he made it
Watching in 2023, didn't see the upload time and genuinely thought it was uploaded this year. Fucking depressing dude
Imagine a kid is trying to escape school, but then all the doors shut closed and red lights start blaring.
Its a horror movie w no escape
INTRUDER ALERT! A RED SPY IS IN THE BASE!
Don't worry, the "quiet kid" doesn't have to imagine. He's already trapped in hell for 40 hours a week with no recourse. He's experiencing it already.
*SLAYER HAS ENTERED THE FACILITY*
@@ChristopherStrider It can be hard to say who has it worse. Females are subject to far more social forces. Girls can be absolutely awful to each other because they know words and opinions govern girls' lives most. The abuse girls place on each other socially is hard to watch
On the flip side, no one really cares what happens to boys. They can suffer and descend into the Abyss without anyone really batting an eye, even though it's obvious and known. We're expendable.
Different kinds of hell, and no one im schools cares at all, and uphold a system that makes it worse. Best part of lockdowns was having them shutdown.
...They've put a moat around a school? Do they expect the shooter to bring medieval siege equipment or something?
2 things
First that is fucking hilarious to think about. Fucking dude just has a catapult yeeting boulders at the school.
2nd, the purpose of a moat is abuse a thought process used by humans See, most humanss go for the easiest route possible. Path of least as it goes. With the moat, the purpose isn't to allout stop someone, but to make them go through the front entrance, where they have more eyes. If the moat is just a big hole, it's very hard to get across. If it's full of water, well now you have to deal with being soaking wet, which will be very suspicious, and with weapons, ammo, and other equipment, would be very difficult to cross. The whole point is to deter people to go through the front, where people have more eyes
@@rowmaster6894 they should have used barbed wire in that case (you could even put electric barbed wire if you are THAT paranoid), more effective and less costly.
Here in south america, stagnant still water makes for breeding grounds to all kinds of terrible insects, don't quote me on this but I think building moats would exacerbate that problem.
And also most shooters are students anyway so they'll be inside
YES!
@@Max_McGamer It's an elementary school
The point at the end about generational gaps in thinking is interesting - when I hear previous generations talk about their childhood/school experience, its always so carefree - filled with all sorts of partying, mischief, lawbreaking, stupidity, etc. You talk to kids now-a-days, they're all struggling to to study hard, keep their heads down, and just make it through life, terrified of failure of any kind
Do you mean the old days when going to and from school meant going uphill both ways?
@Space Bound Damn I wanna talk to someone like you
i was in an large school built in brutalist soviet architecture. This ingrateful tone isnt ok. Security and safety is great, these kids have it way better with a safe school and the only people having problem are braindead millenial dipshits trying to make everything a negative.
@@zapazap I'm sorry but there's nothing harsh about doing some extra exercise. Also studies have shown that giving children that extra Independence to walk home from school and vice versa actually is great for them developmentally, and helps build self-esteem. I agree there were a lot of other problematic things going on for children at the time, but they at least had the rest of the day after 3:00 p.m. or approximately that time. There were some homework, but most of a child's stress would be related to family or societal issues, not school. We now live in a world where a child most definitely has stress from school, and put on top of that family struggles, anxiety, and societal pressures.
@@otakumangastudios3617 The 'going uphill both ways' is a rather old joke.
i attend high school at a district with a recent history of gun violence and this is spot on. i dont know a single kid who feels safer being constsntly followed, watched and scrutinized, with security around every corner. we dont feel protected, we feel policed.
That's the goal. Get the populace use to being violated by the government on a daily basis. Government has no fear of a lone gunman. what they do fear are people with free spirits.
They put people in school specifically to draw away attention from themselves
And then if we get gun control, it's all superficial like "Assault weapon bans" etc. Just pure security theater.
Then why is it i feel safe when i know theres a policeman on campus? Why is it that i don't feel policed when people in America do? I am not from America so i don't know your perspective on this, but just having a cop alone isn't enough to make someone scared of them. I think its just because of Culture, when everything you hear about cops on the news is them beating up protesters etc. you think all cops are like that and the concept of police officers is somehow evil and intimidating by design. Its not, atleast not for me and my peers.
@@RabdoInternetGuy, it would be pretty much the same for me in Poland when I went to school. People here generally don't fear the police unless they are guilty of something.
They're not even trying to prevent it, they're just preparing themselves better for WHEN it happens. I feel so sorry for the children and young teens who have to live with this.
how can they prevent criminals? They might be able to prevent the students, but not the heartless adults who do it for fun.
@@pigeonmanepic psychogical help and gun control
@@pallaciccione7885 there was a time in the US when your everyday joe could buy and own a Tommy gun (Automatic weapon) and we didnt have a school shooting problem. The main problem is mental health and the fact that the media takes. School shooting and runs them nonstop almost to the point of romanticizing the "fame" that comes with it (those who are mentally I'll will see it as their way to their 15 minutes of fame)
@@pigeonmanepic I hope your brain isn't as smooth as I think it is. Do you really think that random criminals just shoot up schools for no reason? Of course not.
Kids shoot up schools. Teenagers that didn't get mental help.
@@prime_optimus people do randomly so things how do you think children get assaulted, random adults who want to harm people
Consider:
An active shooter in a school is likely a student.
Students will be familiar with their school's layout and active shooter procedures. They will know all the places the school has been designed with cover in mind, they will know what the sight-lines are like. They will know the nooks to hide in, they'll know where the cameras are.
You know who wont know those things, who wont know exactly where to look and where to hide?
The first responders.
I thought about this literally all the time in school. "If the shooter is the kid in the drill next to me, how will the paramedics know to look in the hidden supply closet where we all hide?"
A thought not at all conducive to comfort when there are more cops than usual on campus
I'm not surprised they didn't think this through.
And how fucked is that, to be trained that any one of your classmates around you is a possible threat? That you could be a threat?
Fuck. I never thought about that
The responsible move would be to provide plans to police and emergency response units. Which is what I imagine is done.
Never thought the saying "Schools are just kid prisons." would have been taken literally.
Captain Underpants was ahead of its time
Prisons from which all patents may, and most parents can, release them at any time.
It was never metaphorical. When the citizen says "Schools are designed like prisons and school shootings are becoming a problem." They mean, "Your methods of education are arcane and unethical, therefore we should do things fundamentally differently." What the government hears is: "Your child prisons are operating below peak efficiency and require improvement."
@@zapazap uh... are you sure? because getting out of school means lasting effects on your ENTIRE LIFE THEREAFTER. good luck finding a proper job.
@@ponponpatapon9670 I believe the article was referring to the mass industrial form of schooling prevalent in public schooling, rather than schooling (education) itself. Homeschooling (and even some alternatives to the traditional model like Montessori) need not be as prison.
Cheers.
A student at our school killed himself in the bathrooms. No one even found him until lunch the next day. I can't ever express the kind of chill you feel when you know someone in your school had a bag of guns, shot himself in the bathroom, and the scene was so gorey that the bathroom had to be rennovated--but no one even knew. It's fucking awful. Turning the school into military zones won't save lives, it'll just result in our children growing up in fear.
How did no one heared the gun shot ? I imagine the horror, indeed 🙁
what the actual f*ck? That's awful. How is this even allowed to happen
@@donpollo3154idk he made the choice. Ask him. Certainly nothing was stopping him and nothing was to live for.
that's horrible, did his parents not wonder why he didn't come home??
Maybe then American kids will learn a measly 1% of the fear their country taught children in all those countless countries you bombed.
Re-designing school to become fortresses seems like the ultimate example of "treating the symptom, not the cause."
Not even appropriate treatment of the symptoms, this is like treating bipolar symptoms with a lobotomy so you don't experience the euphoria or the mental rock bottom just blah.
Amazing comment, I have been looking for somebody to speak so much truth.
America in a nutshell. They got 20 years left tops
@@KeshAndrew i am going to outlive you
@@svmwasthesheet1971 ???
There's a difference between "it's safe here, child" and "you *will* be safe here, child"
oh god
That’s possible for literally everywhere
Facts are nowhere is “safe”
I just realized, the reason why there's no US school shooting in the past 6 months is because all school were closed due to covid-19 and they are studying from home.
to think that a viral outbreak actually saved the kids from dying.
@@KoeSeer got a point there
can't do a mass shooting if there's no mass to shoot
@@KoeSeer well, 30000000 people got infected so idk whats better, school shooting that would take 10 lives *MAX* or a pandemic
I remember my dad telling me a story of when he and my mother travelled to Egypt. They were visiting a set of ruins that was really popular among tourists, and after turning one corner my dad stopped. He told my mom that the whole space was set up like a shooting gallery in a video game. He pointed out to her where enemies would unload from busses, and where you as the player would stand behind cover to gun them down.
A few weeks later, a couple of gunmen slaughtered dozens of tourists as they arrived by the bus load in that exact same spot.
0_0
Holy shit - guessing it was the Luxor massacre? Because that does look like a video game level...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor_massacre?
(Dark humor)
Plot twist: It was him lmao
Sadly, the player wasn't there to gun the enemies down
a good ambush point is a good smbush point anywhere.
but its the extaction method that marks the difference between random thugs and special operators
Every time there is a major shooting, and my feed has friends or family talking about how we need to turn out schools into fortresses, I come back to this essay.
I prefer to see them turn into fortresses than strip away more rights. Taking them away IS NOT going to stop them, plus, you'd have a huge resentful law abiding owners in the tens of millions that will get violent.
@@20mcnuggets b-but- m-mah rights!! every 20 year old should be able to own 50 guns otherwise i-its not f-fweedom1!!!!
@@20mcnuggets I felt safe at home, and not at school. At home, every able bodied adult has a weapon they are trained and comfortable with using. I would argue to the contrary, if everyone's armed, any shooting will be stopped quickly and violently, limiting the shooter's potential harm. We don't need a friggin military base, we need people ready and willing to defend those unable to defend themselves.
@@b0rt119 WTF?
In my opinion guns are not the problem.
@@ernie4795 Neither do I, but it's ridiculous when people try to shove down my throat the idea that every toddler should be able to get a gun without a single issue
The problem isn't the guns, it's mental health of the american society that causes these kids to do what they do, but have fun convincing those people that mental health exists (it's an impossible task)
It was never about the guns, it's about the shitty parents and classmates that cause these guys to go rogue
It's just that if everybody and their mother didn't have guns in the first place, they probably wouldnt even think about getting one
I'm really not a conspiracy theorist but the problems lies way deeper than guns and mental health, it's something with the american society as a whole. Maybe armstrong was right?
Snake: Colonel, I've entered the educational entry panopticon.
Colonel: good, don't set off the smoke cannons
that sentence is fucking forbidden
I got here from a Metal Gear Solid video by Dunkey of all people
MY SIDES
Goodness gracious... It doesn't even sound ironic anymore.
Kept you waiting huh?
then they get pissed of when kids make counterstrike maps out of their military grade highschool
XD
"With all due respect principal Johnson, the cover placement is stellar on the school's blueprints, you were asking for it"
Shit, they should charge money as consultants for testing the design.
i actually played that map lol it was banger my guy cs 1.6 was the bomb
So you don't like the safety of the schools? You a School shooter??
"Helping students with mental health issues would reduce the amount of shootings in schools."
"But what if we turned the schools into Counter Strike maps?"
"Yeah let's do that instead."
Helping mental health would be a lot cheaper too
Literally my teachers tell me to report bullying. So I reported this girl for literally bullying me and none of the teachers believed me.
you can try your best doing that but then again, maybe it wont be enough
Mental illness only accounts for about 8 percent of mass attacks.
@@Nuhbuddys It depends on the semantics with which you talk about the subject. Some might argue that planning a shooting bye itself is proof of a mental illness .
But I get your point,
This explains a really odd feeling I used to get when I was in school in the U.S. They always felt like a great place to have a paintball game. It’s such a terrible thought with the amount of gun violence in schools but it’s just so true.
Yo that’d actually be sick though
Honestly it’s exaggerated to make people fear guns
@@50-frames-of-stick71 Guns are made to kill as efficiently as possible, only an idiot would not have a decent bit of fear for them.
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who gets game map ideas and paintball and airsoft map vibes by being in real life physical locations. Thought I was losing it
There's something uniquely depressing about seeing a bunch of mostly clueless children stack chairs up against a door to defend themselves from some imaginary future gunman
one more depressing thought, that imaginary gunman might not be so fake in the future
I can imagine that being raised in such an environment with such principles and rules either makes one paranoid and afraid of the world around them, or they actually take an interest in testing the system and become the very same thing themselves. Kind of like that DARE program which aimed to stop kids from doing drugs. It only made more kids do drugs because they became curious about it since that was all they had heard of. Turns out, the more you advertise something, the more people are going to want to try it.
@Hououin Kyouma This exactly
@Hououin Kyouma El Psy Congroo
And they are only barracading out fellow students
I wouldn't be surprised if the implementation of these designs is helping to contribute to the overwhelming increase of stress, anxiety and depression amongst students.
I'd rather be depressed than dead
@@homelessalcoholic2716 So, you'd rather there be more of an illusion of security (that actually worsens the problem and increases your chances of death), with more shooters and depression, than not have as many shooters, if any at all?
@@betaplain297 I would place freedom above all else, in this situation, while at the same time addressing the issues that make people want to commit horrendous acts of violence
Insert name here ASMR Nothing you have stated makes sense well-done sir.
At this point, a US school sounds like a totalitarian nightmare.
I feel sad knowing, that there are no attempts to take care of students and help them, but instead just except a schoolshooting.
Yea the best way to prevent something like this is to focus primarily on the people.
Create a society where people can't understand each other, say they are divided by groups, make them feel unsafe with different people, then solve the prime aspects of human group management and the rest you know how it ends, right?
Take on account the kind of kids who actually become school shooters.
Taking care of that kind of kids would need for some... pillars of US culture to be removed completely.
@@therealyaddayaddaman7353 Hollywood would be enough, that human created hell is a freak machine!
@@hbtm2951 Nope, eliminating hollywood wouldn't make a dent in the cultural basis of this.... hell, if I'm reading you right, elmininating what you want to eliminate from US culture would only make the problem a lot worse.
¿what needs to change? the way lots of parents raise their children in the US, they are the one teaching their kids jewels like "when frustrated... use violence!!" and "13yo girls should be held accountable over the urges both their peers and GROWN MEN feel when they see their shoulders"
In fifth grade, our school went on lockdown due to an issue regarding custody. We hid in the gym with a curtain drawn across the floor to hide us from view. Every time I saw the shoes of one of our teachers walk past, I thought I was going to die. I'm a senior in high school now and I still mentally catalogue every room in the school based on where I'd hide and how likely I'd be to survive. That shit sticks with you.
Id always thought how fun it would be to do a school wide hide-and-seek game. Perhaps that was a thought unconsciously spurred by the architecture as well
What do you mean "an issue regarding custody"?
@@Helperbot-2000 If I had to guess: There's a chunk of reported kidnappings that, basically, boil down to "one parent decided they should keep the kid for longer than the custody agreement says they can". And, y'know, most of the time it's some kind of misunderstanding, but...
"Wouldn't it be better to care about students health and help them with their psychological problems?"
"Nah to much work"
Nah caring about students would mean placing their needs above the school administrators' and they wouldn't want that.
How do you do that?
Nobody wants to talk that much, ita easier to pay someone to imagine fortification
"let's just install an E D U C A T I O N A L E N T R Y P A N O P C T I C O N instead. Problem solved.
Wouldn’t be better to change gun laws?
Perhaps studies on soldiers with PTSD adjusting to civilian life would reveal some insights into the perception of everyday settings becoming violent in an instant.
That could be an interesting study, especially with POW's who went back to "normal, civilized" settings and which were the most triggering of their trauma.
Kinda unrelated but when i go somewhere i imagine me doing something like if im at a bank i go wow that backdoor woyld be good to escape from in a robbery. Of course i dont di the robbery but its something that just happens
@@deathkorpswatchmaster2414 That's actually very normal. We go throughout our days not thinking of "bad" things only because we are distracted by our activities and those around us. We always play "simulations" of actions we would never act on in our heads. Sort of like dreams. Sometimes they're quick, other times we think long and hard about them.
The classroom is a place I know many have experienced that, specifically during times you have to stay quiet. Some examples I've heard include, thoughts about pulling a fire alarm, imagining beating up another kid, what you'd do to the girls/boys you find attractive, what if you told the teacher off, etc.
This can also happen in extremely overcrowded places as well. Tons of different sounds blending together just becomes indestinguishable "noise", and much like a quiet room, most of your focus is on your own thoughts.
When your school district is so paranoid that you have old ass textbooks but brand new metal detectors
The textbooks are so outdated
They couldve used the renovations as an excuse to modernize the education system. More ingrained with technology with less need to buy textbooks every year.
Who are we kidding given the way police treat black people it’s a matter of time before an inner city school Massacre has a higher student body count from the cops than the shooter
lmao
My school has geography textbooks from a time where Yugoslavia was still a thing
My school had a lockdown song.
"Lockdown, lockdown. Let's all hide. Lock the doors. Stay inside. Crouch on down. Don't make a sound, do not cry, or you'll be found. Lockdown, lockdown."
We had to have lessons about the kind of threats. Minor violence against staff was the worst, thankfully, but we had police officers in the school. The police officers had tazers, and other weapons that can be used to stun. I know where every size of person should hide. Smaller people hide in corners, larger ones under the teacher's desk or in closets... what I'm saying here isthat I've been Practicing active intruder drills for so long, that I can sing a song about hiding and being silent.
What the actual fuck... they made a song?
This is the most terrifying thing I've heard all year
if I read this in a dyatopian novel id think it was too blatantly heavy-handed to suspend my disbelief.
Sorry if this comes off as offensive in any way, but do you realise how fucking disturbing that is?! I'm half tempted to throw up after reading the lyrics. It's beyond dystopian
This somewhat reminds me of a hat song at my old school that people would sing if they weren’t wearing their hats. But this is just messed up
My two biggest fears when going to school are
1. A school shooting happening and having classmates and friends die
2. Hearing another student name on the announcements in regards to suicide because the school system has failed us in regards to mental health.
And the government doesn’t do crap about any of that
For number 1: They make school shooters more common by giving kids more anxiety through these designs and give the shooters cover
And for Number 2: They
2 has sadly happened at my school. Senior. Im a freshman, and yet people in my class *knew* this guy. Just, man. Got me thinking since then.
I find this crazy. I go to school in Ireland. My two biggest fears at school are:
1. The French teacher calling me to the front to do a practice speaking exam
2. The English teacher asking us to hand up an essay that I forgot to do.
Sometimes in school, I ponder what I’d do in a shooting. I think about how I’d hide or if I could jump out the window.
Our classrooms don’t have locks on the inside. We don’t have lockdown drills or a dedicated alarm for a shooting. We have unmonitored side doors that anyone can enter through. Our police don’t carry guns. The school has no security guards or any safety procedure for shootings. If a gunman came in, they could probably pick off HUNDREDS of us in the school.
And yet, I‘ve never once sat in class, in genuine fear of a school shooting. I’m able to relax and focus on my studies because I know that there will never be a shooting in my school.
The biggest difference I’ve noticed between schools in the USA and in Ireland is the amount of windows. My school is full of windows. Every classroom, every hallway, everywhere, is lit by natural sunlight from the windows. American schools seem to have these longgg corridors with countless classrooms and no windows until the end of the corridor. My school’s longest corridors are just 6 classrooms long, and still manage to have lots of windows throughout. The school is bright and colourful and welcoming. Yes I hate going to school and getting homework, but I’ve never felt genuine resentment for the place. People are nice enough and the building is beautiful. I think if usa schools were designed like mine, it might improve student mental health
I heard a kids name on announcements due to suicide he was popular but he got bullied a lot councilor didn’t even try to help despite their job being to help students they now don’t even remember it happening actually no one does and that was a few months ago
@@colton1325 that sounds existentially horrifying.
"Investing on programs to help Kids with mental health issues?"
School: "Nah"
"Building a f*cking pvp map in real life?"
Schools: *"YES"*
They couldn't help mental health without removing the system entirely, why risk people waking up?
@@betaplain297 if you can't help with mental health because of the system then we should get rid of that system
@@leoneabbachio7820 yasss
And that kids is the power of spending other people's money [aka taxes]!
God this is just depressing
Schools should also have platforms at different elevations and a rocket launcher pickup in the middle.
It shouldn’t be funny but the idea of a bunch of kids rocket jumping around school fragging each other is very funny to me.
@@BLIGHTROT666 Tf2 headass bois flying through the hallways
@Maciej Królikowski This is a bucket
Rovire Jams
My God...
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Sometimes there's some European,
Looking at US schools,
And speaking to themselves in horror:
"What the fuck ".
Today it's me. AGAIN.
For years I was going to school with folding knife in my pocket and I was actually using it on hallways... to make myself sandwitch from buns I bought on way to school, to peel mandarine, to cut apple for me and my friend, to help maintence guy open door which was sealed by some students with isolation tape just because. Some teachers did ask me "why do I have a knife anyway" and when I listed things like above I never got anything worse than "...ok? Just be carefull during breakes. Many kids run on hallways and might accidentally fall on it". That's it. At my last ~2 years at my 12yrs school some teachers even sometimes asked me to borrow them my knife for something without even asking if I have it because I always had. And I sometimes had screwdriver.
The only two things my school did have was cameras on hallways (that usually wasn't even working) and main doors opened by person in reception, and it wasn't even security person during day. Just some random lady or guy who would let you in and out (if they knew your face and they knew EVERYONES faces) anytime you wanted - no matter time, no matter if it's breake or during classes. The only time through 12 years when someone were checking our backpack was when some idiot thought that smoking weed in school toilet is good idea so they were searching for some weed in backpacks. Thats it. They didn't even asked why I carry knife to school.
US schools are dystopian nightmare.
as an american, they really are. when my dad was a kid he brought a bottle of aspirin to keep in his locker so he didnt have to ask the nurse for some when he had a headache. he brought a bb gun to school so him and his buddy could go to the side yard and shoot cans at recess. at my school they called a lockdown bc a kid was smoking pot behind the gym and you could get suspended for having aspirin in your backpack (bc its a 'drug'). if you had a knife god help you, you were expelled on the spot. meanwhile my gym class taught us to use a compound bow.
As a Canadian, yeah, my school experience was quite a lot more chill. I went to a small town private school where probably 30% of the students were children of local farmers, so I can only imagine how many knives were in that building every day. The front doors were never locked during school hours, though some of the side entrances stayed most of the time. I remember one instance of a high school student complaining about a headache, and the teacher said something along the lines of "well, i'm not allowed to give you the ibuprofen that's in the top drawer of my desk." And gave a little wink. Heck, I made a literally cannon as a history project and fired it in the soccer field. Though, the principal DID tell me afterward that he wasn't sure what was happening and considered putting the school into lockdown when I fired it, AND that was the last time weapon builds were allowed as history projects...
@@reaganharder1480I’m also Canadian, but I go to a city private school (it’s literally downtown and next to a busy road) but it’s the same thing. Country wide, we’ve never worried about having knives or whatever in the building, for whatever you need then for, I can’t imagine a country who in which you’re scared of others at school.
I'm in US suburbs and you could probably do the same at the high school I just left.
Incredibly glad my school is safe
Imagine having your custom Counter-Strike map become a school
Edit: I have no idea how this stupid comment that I probably came up with in 15 seconds got so many likes but thanks. It’s been cool watching this go from 10+ likes to over 20,000.
Once a guy made his school into a gmod map, which I think was or could be used for shooting games.
@@xpok3947 it was cs:source
If I'm not mistaken, the sandy hook shooters used doom to see what it would be like to shoot up their school by making the map in doom
@@noahferny2644 It was Columbine, the Sandy Hook shooter knew someone who worked at the school.
@@noahferny2644 iirc thats a myth, while the columbine shooters were fans of doom and one of them did make doom wads, one based on the school was never actually found
You mentioning how brutaliam feels like a bunker and the school policing itself reminds me of something my sibling said: "Of course school feels like a prison, they're built by the same architects." It's chilling.
Here in my country schools literally have bars on windows
Im not sure why because they started getting it when i was in my very early teens im not sure if some student killed himself but i can say that looking at bars on windows everyday when i was still on school was not cool
@@valletas most schools in my country do have bars on windows, but its mostly to protect from football kids from shooting the ball through the windows.
@@valletas We don't have bars on windows here, but all windows are very narrow and rotate open making it really hard to squeeze yourself through. At least, that's how it is until the 3rd floor. After that, it's nets and bars and railings. Sure wonder why so much care is taken in preventing a student from defenestrating themselves instead of... helping their mental health.
@@quan-uo5ws here in my country we dont have open fields on schools
All stadiums are "caged" if thats make sense so the ball wont go anywhere
@@nerd_nato564 well because the only way to improve mental health for students is to radically reform the school system, and that isnt happening soon.
My school was a place i couldn't leave without authorization. I eventually started viewing it as a prison due to bullying. A prison I could escape from. That I had to escape from. First I went into one of the many closed classrooms in that side of the building through a window, jumped out of said classroom's window into an unused dirt area, but I didnt jump through the wall directly in front of me, since behind it was a walled community, with a metal fence on the sides, instead I ran, hugging the wall, with my head low so I wasn't seen through the windows until i reached an edge, and then i climbed up the 3 meter wall, an jump down to the other side. I did this many, many times. I did it so much that my grades suffered, no one took attendance in the afternoon, so i was not missed. I remember wandering around for a bit, making time, before going home, or coming back at the end of school's day in order to get into my mom's car, who came to school to pick me and my little brother, and just, pretending everything was normal.
One time i injured my foot during this with the spikes at the top, it was not anything serious, but I remember looking at the dot of blood in my sock, and the tiny 'hole' my foot had, and thinking it was still worth it.
I remember visiting my school a couple of years later, and seeing every single area i ever used to access that dirt area blocked, the windows from the event hall, the additions on top of fence in the first floor, the metal bars sealing the windows of the first floor classrooms, the bars above the space between the ceiling and the walls of the first floor bathrooms and the fences next to them, even the literal plastic wall in the second floor next to the event hall, that prevented jumping down to that area.
I would've probably resorted to desperate measures in the face of those obstacles, and probably gotten myself seriously injured or killed. I'm glad i wasn't there to experience them.
Back in 1993 when I was 16yo I had to carry around my high school discharge papers to keep from getting a Truancy ticket when I went grocery shopping cause I wasn't at high school during the afternoon. I drop out cause of all the petty drama bull zhit. Lucky enough my parents were self-employed so I had a steady job that winter. When I was 17yo I just told cops to .. walk the F**k back.
Holy shit
When I started reading this, I thought “just going to be a school with extra safety precautions.” You’re right, that’s not a school. It’s a prison.
That aint a school thats a gulag...
What kind of school is this? What incentive do parents have to bring their kids to a place like this?
As a European, watching this feels so alien and bizarre. My school has literally none of this, nothing remotely violent ever happened there.
Edit: Guns are cool, but my point stands
@Sierra Reppert Aye, everything's starting to go to shit
Well, here’s my theory-
Americans lack trust and honesty - at least the average ones.
As an American in high school, I speak from experience - people find every possible unexploited loophole, will break rules for the sake of it, and try to selfishly entertain themselves often at the expense of others.
I also think that the biggest issue is the culture of death we have here. Guns are almost worshipped and are used to kill others here. The government, of course, has to regulate because otherwise there is enourmous destruction. However, in a lot of European countries, you can have a full automatic gun - because while it is occasionally used maliciously, it’s not enough to warrant a law banning them. The media also give WAY to much attention to what are in essence terrorists, and kids (mentally stable or not) are constantly exposed to violence, with the M on ESRB or 18 on Pegi being regulated to a suggestion. Same applies to most movies. And this leads to fundamental problem no. 3: people here enjoy violence more than art. You can notice that as movies and video games get more violent, the story/gameplay get more shallow. A lot of stories can be violent by nature (I.e., the Bible and Quran) but have actual meaning. Things like Fortnite, the perfect example of violence for violence, do not.
Just my 2 cents.
@@thenerdy0boist955 Yeah, you certainly have some points there as I see it
@@thenerdy0boist955 you had me until you went schizo and started talking about fortnite
@@exotic1405 fr bruh
"Videogames promote violence"
**Spends millions of dollars creating a prison to keep depressed and abused children from lashing out, while ignoring the causes of it all**
Cap
@nice try167 lemme just... use this real gun with real knockback and real consequenses which I have learned to use in a videogame without basically any feedback on what a real gun feels like
I’ve seen you around RUclips a lot. You’re not very pleasant. Are you a troll?
Okay, boomer.
@@mangooverlord2014
Imagine expecting the truth to be pleasant..
Schools in germany: take an old building, put some chairs and a chalkboard in it. Done.
Schoola in america: we need a few megatons of reinforced concrete and hire a game designer to make it the hardest shooter that can be a school.
yea im from Australia and these video is nuts to me
@paper tastes like cardboard I hope germany doesn't seem cool because of how cheaply we handle schools :D
JonnesTT true. Schools here are a joke for the most part.
I want to leave America when I’m older because everyone seems to hate it here. Idk what should I do? Where could I go?
I love how the way you describe German schools is a pretty accurate depiction of the school I'm attending.
"I genuinely think they had the best intentions when designing the school."
>Plays a Max Payne 3 song notorious for having a soundclip of Max's dead infant's cries looping in the background.
What the fuck
Nah, the guy that built my school also built prisons
Yeah, I loved it!
Dr. Spog Zallagi Oh god 🤣
Can you please give some context?
I grew up on the edge of the city. My first eight or so years though were spent in a world of knights and castles, and forests or wandering our small town with my sister. There was no policing of my life. My parents wanted to know generally where I was and I needed to have my school and chores done (homeschool), but after that I was free to wander. As i went into my teenage years my legs got longer and I wanted to find new places to explore. So I wandered farther afield learning and explored the length of the creek exploring fields and neighborhoods. Then I went off to college, enter locks everywhere, cameras, police presence that wasn't my friendly next door neighbor, and people that stayed within the lines. So I rebelled silently, learning to pick locks, circumvent gates, dodge people and cameras, and learn the holes in this controlled environment. Because I felt trapped and I worry that most haven't known freedom so they can't see that it still lingers above, below, and in the quiet places. If I had to describe America in one word I would say Freedom, it is our ideal. What happens when we lose that? What happens when any person loses belief in their own autonomy?
I like how even in the educational budget, America still finds a way to make most of it defense spending
Only in America
At least the building can be repurposed as a fort when it comes to it
Prime place to go if zombies are ever a thing.
Wouldn't it be easier to just ban guns?
Yes it would
@@ratrat9769 yes actually since you can be arrested for a felony meaning that at least while they're in custody their ability to commit crime is lessened.
When you walk in the doors of a school and your health bar appears
*You cannot fast travel when enemies are nearby.*
better stock up some health packs and potions of bullet resistance III
Welp, guess it’s time to sign up for online school
*E1M1 plays*
Why do I see a Raid bar?
Students are the ones most likely to become shooters, so most of the security crap won't matter. How about schools pay more attention to our mental health?
never would happen in our capital country
no no no that wouldn't help us with OUR agenda. a few people dying here and there is no big deal. what we need to do is use these people dying as a way to strike fear in the living so they are willing to come to us for security.
Simon Michelson
Small problem, the kid tends to like to conserve ammo so they use semiautomatic
@@simonmichelson8188 By removing the gun the nutty will just move to knives then pipes then bats and to there fists. Removing a wepon will make the pray an easier target they will not have any thing to defend themselves with. the nutty will just look on the black market or use a new wepon. Its the brain not the object.
@1small fish My dad and I were wondering about that a few years ago. He worked for a long time as a therapist, the agency he worked for was state funded. They would work with students, as well as adults. eventually the state cut funding. 3 years in a row the funding was cut, a lot of mental health workers lost hours, patients, and many just lost their jobs altogether. I have my own ideas about what would help to solve the problems with mass shooters, and preventing that from happening. I think that making mental health services worse is definitely not a step in the right direction, though. whenever I hear people act like mental health does not matter as much as trying this or that solution, I tend to respond with something like "ok then, lets get rid of all of the mental health services and then try your solution and see how that goes."
I saw bulletproof backpacks being sold in a Staples in preparation for the new school year and nearly burst into tears right then and there.
pause, one question. What in the fuck is staples doing selling glorified ballistics vests?
@@bruhzy2139 - It’s for kids to hide behind during the abundant amount of school shootings that US school kids have been experiencing near constantly. Parents can’t send their children to school with an actual bulletproof vest. This is the next best thing. Devastating
@@JMBAD_art ah yes, sidestepping the problem completely. this will cause no future problems
@@bruhzy2139 United States government at work
@@bruhzy2139 thank gun lobbying for that one!
This is like putting a bandaid on a broken skull
It could prevent some blood to drip OUT of the head, you know.
This is irony ^
Ice pack on internal bleeding
@@MurriciTerceiro that is a good point actually, if it were a normal cut or something wouldn't the ice pack help freeze the blood and close up the cut?
@@redcrewmate764 it could, but not in a way that this would be enough to heal the person
@@Avery_37 the school nurse 🤚😭
The mf school nurse I cant
I remember in middle school, not but a year or so after Columbine, some kids thought it'd be a great prank to accuse me of claiming I'd come to school and start shooting people.
No defense.
Expelled from the school several hours later, forced to go to an "alternative school" for several years with kids who were about 100x more likely to actually bring a gun to school.
What an excellent childhood.
But for real though. I'm not joking in any way. This really happened. The extreme if not almost ridiculous amount of paranoia back in the very early 2000's was ridiculous. But. Here I am. A socially misshapen adult with a mundane social life, still haunted by years of having the shit kicked out of him and reminded for years on end about that one time "you were gonna go kill everybody." Spent almost a year in a psychiatric hospital at one point because of this shit.
As far as I'm concerned, modern schools are fucking prisons designed to beat you into the good little worker Plutocracy wants you to be. You shove a bunch of mentally malnourished kids together and evil things happen. And I CANNOT overstate that I don't use the word "evil" casually.
Those kids who claimed I'd kill people? Two are dead, drug overdoses. One is a convicted pedophile. One is in jail for vehicular manslaughter and several DUI.
Guess I turned out pretty okay.
Have a good day you person, whomever you are. Keep on, keeping on. You'll make it my friend.
Its almost like they felt the need to project all of the evil things that they were and more in order to deflect any suspicions on their part. Wish you the best man, that sounds horrible.
"Mentally malnourished" That expression captures pretty well what is wrong with the systems.
I come from Germany, which was actually the birth place of modern schools. Catholics took children from the streets and put them into rooms, where amateurs would entertain the kids with loose knowledge. German schools got militarised and demilitarised three times. The first time during the early 20th century, to fit into the empirical Germany. The third time during the peak of the cold war, where fallout drills were done. And the second time was after the takeover of the Nazis. They made the children play with tanks and grenades and implemented systemic racism in the schools design. Hitler said in a speech German children were supposed to become soulless violent monsters. Ironically he did not need to change a lot about the schools to achieve that.
Schools are militarist in nature. With their square rooms. With teachers, who command classes like generals. Who can make the students sing, be silent, laugh, speak, cry and piss their pants, because "You were able to use the toilets during the break".
That sounds awful, genuinely hope youre doing good and staying safe
how do you know they *died* sir
Still know people from school back then. Word spreads.
"Designed for Violence" sounds like the name of a Borderlands skill tree.
Or an achievement for a sandbox game after designing a map specifically for PvP
LMAO THAT'S SO ACCURATE
Yoo it’s gill bates owner of sicromoft
It’s almost like the Jedi mind tricks album violent by design
Or a deathcore band.
That brief cut to Sandy Hook before the renovations was absolutely shocking. That one second shot really perfectly delivered the point that schools are built like prisons when they could easily not be
i have a seven year old brother. obviously he's not in a physical school right now because of the pandemic, but last year when they would do active shooter drills he would talk about them for weeks after they happened. i'm 21, my lockdown drills consisted of locking the doors and hiding under desks all the way up through high school-- i can't imagine how my little brother must have felt being barely old enough to read and being told to stack his chair against the door like that.
i've been on the other side of it, though. i've been a camp counselor for children around my brother's age, and i've had to go through the adult side of active shooter training. it's terrifying, it's sickening. as a camp counselor, our main job was to make sure every kid was accounted for-- if a kid got lost under your watch, you would lose your job that same day. i remember my supervisor telling us that in an active shooter situation, no matter what happened, if our instinct told us that the best option was to tell the kids to pick a direction and keep running, then they would back us up on that decision. because a lost kid is better than a dead kid.
it's awful. it's all just truly awful, and seeing it being built into our very architecture breaks my heart.
What makes me most angry about the active shooter drills is the futility of it. I had active shooter drills throughout my time in school, and they have all had the same plan of shoving a bunch of people into one tiny corner and creating a single stationary target. This is exactly what I'd say to do if I was trying to get the highest possible body count. We handle these drills in the worst way imaginable and act like we're doing something to solve the problem
@@awk4722 I'd say honestly if there was a school shooting and I was there I just accept my fate cuz there's no other f****** option then or or you can attempt to charge the shooter and probably still get yelled at by your teacher
I just found out about lockdown drills today. I didn't even know they existed. If I had thought more about it I would've probably been able to figure, but still. It meant so little to me to look it up because I thought it so improbable.
We should give teachers guns.
@@teejay9189 yeah some schools did that but there were a couple of cases of accidental discharge
Giving teachers guns is a non solution, it's not fixing the problem, it's only adding another problem that'll be have to be solved again. It's like adding a foreign predator to try to control an invasive species.
"you'd rather be safe right?"
no id rather schools take a harder look at why kids start shooting each other instead of slapping a general label of "oh they're just insane" and never putting responsibility into their mental health or intervening when the parents do not
well they do that for private schools at least but not public ones
Private schools tend to be bad at understanding already existing mental conditions and do not protect the students who are not as mentally strong as the public schools in my experience. I have seen first hand what the negligence leads to, including seeing someone i know get expelled after making a hit-list. He was weak mentally and the others caught on. they enjoyed his reaction as they picked on him relentlessly, even in front of teachers. He would make violent gestures or jab them with a pen pretending to stab them and kids would laugh or yell at him. He wasn't the best at social interactions but if one did not pester him, he would leave you alone or even be nice to you. Instead the band of kids who are seen as popular relentlessly harassed him and doubled down by joking about him shooting up the school. When he was caught with a hit-list and expelled, Everyone laughed. They didn't even care that they almost bred a school shooter. They almost broke this kid so bad that he could have taken lives... student's lives. They could have pushed this poor kid over the edge and some could have lost their lives because of it. Kids aren't taught to recognize kids who aren't as socially skilled as them and to protect them. Instead they see them as a tool of sick pleasure. Then teachers don't know who is screwing around with each-other and who is actually getting bullied. the problem isn't the guns, its a lack of proper education on how to treat people who may be a little different.
@@30dollarnightvision14 Most teachers seem to know who bullies who... They just don't care. Especially when the bullies are in the schools sports system, specifically football.
Schools do not care about your mental health.
Barkly Bowers You can’t buy military firearms... Duh...
Barkly Bowers Have you ever bought a firearm?
This kinda reminds me of the “clear open streets” debate. People thought that bad drivers will speed regardless of what we do about it, so instead of trying to stop them from speeding, we should make the streets open and easy to navigate so damage from speeding cars is reduced. However this had the unwanted effect of encouraging speeding since it was like the streets were made for it. Those open streets ended up having more fatalities than narrower ones with blind spots.
I know this isn’t an exact comparison, and I doubt the two situations are directly relatable, but it just makes me wonder what the effect of basically setting up high schools based around the event of school shootings will have. Will it subconsciously encourage shooters? Will it be seen like a challenge more than an obstacle? Is pushing school shootings to the forefront of everyone’s minds everyday at school going to encourage it? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
Well, that's how my brain works.
Whenever I see some kind of security I subconsciously start finding ways to evade/fool it.
Also I always dreamed about playing paintball or a lazer game in a massive area like a school or office building. This building looks like it should be part of that dream. I am sure potential killers have similar feelings. Especially if they have a friend or two, so they can brainstorm and work together.
I am not saying building this is not a good idea, but... Just saying.. it looks like an amazing challenge to me.
" Is pushing school shootings to the forefront of everyone’s minds everyday at school going to encourage it? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see." By every study on the law of suggestion ever done - yes.
I heard the opposite. That more accidents happen on narrow streets than open ones.
freedom comes after order.
@@Spider-Too-Too you got that the wrong way around buddy
My high school has curved halls to limit lines of sight and has metal doors that come down to trap a potential shooter. I've heard rumor that it is a recycled prison design, I wouldn't be surprised. Everyone says it feels like prison, and not in the ugh school way, its dark and has several levels with halls jutting out so classes are only in clusters of 4 or 5 rather then one big hall with all the classes. To get to the cafeteria takes 7 minutes from some classes. Where rows of lockers end the wall juts out creating a spot to hide behind and doors are positioned in ways you cannot see into the room. We will do all this to increase the chance of someone surviving a traumatic event when we could easily stop it in the first place.
What's disturbing is that in high school I would sometimes imagine what it would be like if a war were to break out and how parts of the school would favor the defenders/attackers. The pit area in the patio outside the cafeteria I always figured would make a great machine gun nest.
Thinking like a FPS gamer
Pov: you live in Italy and schools don't have cameras nor fricking metal detectors or gas bombs
@@pietrociceri7845 wait you guys don't have cameras or metal detectors??
@@somethingelse6774 Nothing, no one even controls you
Same
We have a massive open field in the center that is flanked by alot of buildings and a cell tower across the road
If by some chance a group of find themselves in that patch of green, they'll have no cover, and be practically blind
Is nobody gonna talk about how the smoke filling the hallways would only protect the shooter, they are just shooting at the hallway, people need to identify where the shooter is.
yeah and they could run towards the shooter without knowing
its just going to get smoke in everyones eyes rather than stop anything those running away would have a 50% chance of being safe or not and that would be far better than the shooter being able to see you
Its an intimidation tactic for if the shooter is asthmatic
@@jakedebarr9675 if the shooter is asthmatic how could they get prepared in a bathroom full of vape clouds lol
@@alexanderbrady3189 I mean I go to the bathroom in school and I'm fine. It's just like hitting fast travel for the hospital. Get out of school, have free choccy milk, it's fun.
Remember: Always stay behind cover and only move when the enemy is reloading.
remember: switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading
Remember: Use smoke grenades to retreat behind cover, but remember that smoke can attract enemy fire.
Remenber: always reload after every bullet you shoot.
This information is more useful than anything schools tell you about active shooters and such
When they are responding charge their ass and stab them with scissors
I love this video, I just hate how timeless it is
How timeless it is? It's been 2 fucking years. Are you a child?
Oh. Shit. I thought this was recent, turns out it’s already 3 years old.
You really think this will all be just as bad 50 years from now? Thats sad
“The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on Earth.”
But I think that's a luxury not a curse
if so we live in a nation of the mad
It doesn't?
I think it the opposite. If not for those who feared death we would have no safety
Cpt. Price
"The greatest victory is the one won without fighting"
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Just for clarification: prevent school shootings from happening in the first place, by, oh I don't fucking know, maybe taking better care of mental fucking health? And you won't have to build schools like this.
almost thought this was a tip for school shooters like "kill them with your words not with your bullets" lol
Hit the enemy where he is not.
@@marysunshine9193 "Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It's already happening in some extent in our own society... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives people antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable." Find who said this quote.
"...taking better care of mental health." is a dog whistle for 'numb the mind'. Not picking on you specifically, but this sentiment has been held for decades and it's embarrassing to watch the problem grow and the rhetoric to remain the same.
@@marysunshine9193 let kids beat the crap out of their bullies again and this problem will fade away.
There’s so much effort put into building schools that protect kids from shooters that no one stops to think about how to prevent kids from becoming a shooter. This is a deeper issue that not many people seem to put a lot of thought towards.
It's easier to 'solve' a symptom, get a pat-on-the-back, and a check. TPTSB aren't interested in solving root causes. TPTSB are the root causes.
Ghost comment!
There are two ways to solve an issue like this: 1) with the care of community and students, actively doing what's possible to prevent ppl from becoming shooters and working to address mental health. Although, here's the downside with this option, too costly in terms of time, money, and beyond the control one person who likely isn't a 'real representative' of state education system. Option 2) work outworldly on the issue not internally, wasted spending to make issue fade away(architectural design, metal detectors, active shooter drills) , repairs reputation with already mentally ill community, saves money by not actually doing anything bout issue, regain the publics trust by having a representative say these safety parameters will ensure a promise they can't keep. Basically option 2 is the better front bc it saves money but the price is weighed towards not addressing mental health or trying to spend or find an option to solve it
For example, to ban guns...
@@schmeterling honestly banning guns would be a pretty shitty idea and would just create more problems related to self defense, we can't always depend on knives and other sharp objects for defense considering most Criminals in the US (or any other country really) often times has guns themselves, imo it would be better if A. Tighter Security in Gunshops and Teenagers, no matter if he or she looks Normal or outright shady will always need their Parents to be with them at all times IF they wish to purchase firearms instead of just waltzing into the Local Gun store and say "Heya lads, I'd like to purchase a Glock 17" or B. Focusing on the Mental health of a Student entirely and what we could do to make him or her feel better if they're a victim of Bullying or has had a traumatizing experience from the past and is making life difficult for them both at home and at school whilst still looking out for Shady looking teenagers doing some suspicious things on School grounds or in nearby Gunshops.
But yea probably none of those things or any other good things mentioned by people regarding the prevention of School Shootings considering how shit the Government is :(
It really sucks that world events have gone in such a way that I'm not just coming back to this video because I'm on a Jacob Geller binge but because now it is, unfortunately, more relevant than ever.
Holy shit I was not anticipating to hear my music in this video. I've become a huge fan of this channel in recent months so this was quite the surprise. I'm honored!! And congrats on a provocative, fascinating video (again)!
why are there no replies on this comment lol
Wonderful music dear sir.
Did not expect to see austin in the comments of this vid lol
Aye congrats! ^^
The music was nice.
Amazing music
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
- Sun Tzu
Okay then *hugs the shooter*
Sun tzu said that, and im pretty sure he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor
@@shotgun3628 Despite the fact that i was expecting that, i still found that funny. thanks
@@guragat2 from behind. Makes you WAY harder to shoot ;)
@@shotgun3628 no matter where u go, you'll find a tf2 comment hiding somewhere lol
I have a friend who's home schooled.
When we were younger, I showed him what my school looked liked.
He was absolutely stunned because he thought it was a prison at first glance.
The inside didn't help since it looked even more like a prison, especially with the run-down walls.
Albeit, he might have exaggerated slightly but it was still surprising since I never saw it that way.
Yah, it's interesting to show people buildings and make them guess what the building is.
@@illuforce LMAO Read again, I never made him guess the building.
He just wanted to see my school since he was in the neighborhood. He said it looked like a prison at first. That's it, nothing suspicious.
@@Preposter Oh
My school had poop on its walls in the restroom
When I came to America, I was stunned to see that all of the elementary public schools literally look like bomb shelters. They're walls are covered in cement and rocks with small windows half way into the ground.
coming back to this video only a day after the Ulvada shooting. It's alarming to remember that its been three years and yet all of these things still ring true.
I have heard some sayings from different students throughout my life that schools felt like prisons. If they feel like prisoners already, what more if the schools are indestinguishable from prisons?
Get back in your cell CLASSMATE.
Arkos Gatrovich the difference is small nowadays. I’m in high school and the school I go to is good better then most. But my old schools were closed off. No natural light. Felt like a prison. Fucked up my mental state too
@@Sm0k3turt I feel lucky to have gone to a high school with no hallways. Though me and some friends would joke about how we'd all be screwed during a shooting since a majority of classrooms faced one central location (the location was very welcoming, unlike a panopticon). Shooter stands at the center and can probably kill half a dozen people by just shooting at the windows they can see. Take a couple shots at what is obviously the multipurpose room and people who had PE are almost definitely hiding in there would probably be fine, but move to the opposite side of where the bullets hit; going in then would net some easy targets for the shooter (that's how we decided hiding against the wall that was shot would probably be safer).
Thinking back on it, if a teacher heard these conversations they probably would have thought we were plotting something... we just really liked thinking tactically, and school shootings were a "practical" problem to consider.
Arkos Gatrovich I would say there’s a the feeling of being a prisoner in school versus having that reality be reflected in everything. If it’s a feeling you can maybe brush it off as that, just a feeling. Having that feeling though be confirmed by life around you can be very depressing and hopeless
Schools ARE prisons, my dude
Watching this as a non US-citizen really makes you wonder wtf is going on there.
I can tell you one thing, its pure stupidity. There's gonna be a few bad apples but the bad apples made other people bad apples and more abuse and abuse from the government, abuse abuse abuse. Its only free when your a adult but its more of a "you have a choice to do this or lose your house then die of a failure"
@@kulestdude2531 i had a stroke explain
@@nwut I'm saying that the bad people eventually multiplied and outgrew the people who had good intentions, whether by ideals or not. The majority has the voting power so they elected people who are bad. Now America is as stated in the video.
@@kulestdude2531 ty
Really just a whole lot of people freaking out.
Thing about all these newly designed schools is:
It's hard to get in. It's also hard to get out. 200-some-odd (if not more) kids and a few dozen adults not being able to escape from an active shooter just sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.
What about fire?
As someone that has been in a (what we thought at the time) active shooting, you get so conditioned to hide that you don’t think to run.
I was in a classroom with a door to the parking lot. Hell, my classmate’s car was right outside. We were so trained to hide that I honestly didn’t think about running until now, 6 months later.
It’s one of those times when you say you would do something, but you don’t in the actual moment
My school has over 1000 kids. If a shooter were to come in, we're all dead.
Any building that's hard to escape is a death trap come a tornado, hurricane, flood, or fire.
my school had only one entrance but many many exits. every classroom had a one way door to the outside
Here we are. Back again in 2022. And people want schools even more "secure" now. Man traps, one way entries and exits, more metal, more weapons.
And yet they won't go after this two things that start mass sh00t1ngs in the first place: Guns and mental health
Fun thing: this kills MORE students by not letting them escape.....
This is really an interesting topic, especially for myself as I've gone to school both in the US and sweden. I remember live shooter drills at my elementary school, and how the teachers would go through good hiding spots around the campus in case we couldn't make it into a classroom in time (the classrooms were all separate buildings connected by outdoor paths). One of the tips they gave us was literally "pretend you're playing hide and seek, find somewhere they can't see you and stay as quiet as possible"
When I moved here to sweden I told my classmates about that and they were all horrified, cause that just really isn't a thing there. Only ones who weren't were the syrian refugees, they said they always keep track of the nearest exit. Even 5 years of swedish school later I still find myself automatically checking rooms for potential hiding spots when I enter.
The feeling of fear kids have in schools now *isn't normal*, and isn't something healthy to grow up with. It's wild that it really has become the average school experience for americans at this point.
love the videos btw, keep it up!
Ah, the old "there are 3 exits and the bathrooms are over there" whenever entering a building.
the fact that the only people in an environment with tighter gun control who could relate to your experince were refugees from an active war zone is... telling.
I'd still fight if the gunner was breathing distance form me
Sunquad also brings up an interesting topic, if accidentally: How does masculinity specifically present itself in such an environment. Reminds me of a deeply uncomfortable moment when a coworker bragged about their gun of choice at length and how he wished someone would break into his house so he could blow a hole through their chest. It allows you to both display dominance to your peers while assuring yourself that you are prepared for the danger you perceive around you.
Anything to survive is healthy in my book.
After all schools are not the only place you can get shot.
"I wonder if they will be able to maintain proper social distancing during their active shooter drills once school opens up again." is a sentence that would boggle the mind of anyone 20 years ago.
“Terrorist executioners recommend social distancing”
Thanks Onion I guess that window to the future really will come true, hope I get eaten by a giant cockroach
How is distance a matter of concern when talking about social interaction????? What the hell is an active shooter?!?!!!?!! This is some dystopian setting fictional crap talk.
@@plokijum an active shooter is a shooter that has not been contained or, more preferrably, killed. as for social distancing, there's a thing called Corona virus.
@@lolgod6932
So there's creature/alien "shooter" that invades/attacks people regularly and corona virus has evolved into some kind of magnetic/spacial distorting symptom. And im supposed to believe that 😂
@@plokijum Assuming this is satire I find it quite funny yet in truth Social Distancing is dystopian. And while we’re at it Bill Gates is a Nazi, George Soros is a Zionist, Tom Cruise is the Zodiac Killer (that was a joke) and I’m just a random Socialist.
Fire drills were so simple, so clean. We had fires in my school multiple times in the first week or two and the student body left the school calmly and kindly.
Shooter drills made us all cry.
They don't have to be called 'shooter drllls.' Call them 'shelter drills' (or something else innocuous). What is needed is to drill them in a certain behaviour. No 'scary reasons. need be given. Some students might intuit what the cheerful drills are for (no reason for the _drill_ not being cheerful, right?), but I would not expect tears.
//Shooter drills made us all cry//
Then those in charge of the drills were incompetent. But your phrase 'made us _all_ ' suggests to me that you are bullshitting us -- if not a lot, then a little.
Are you bullshitting us, Ethan?
@@zapazap you good bro? I've seen you getting heated on a lot of comments
@@youreverydayhuman4528 I'm cool friend -- thanks for the concern. I know, another case of "Someone is Wrong on the Internet!"
Calling out bullshit is a game to pass the time. Unfortunately I've got far too much time to kill lately! :)
@@zapazap yeah I feel you, covid has opened up a lot of free time for me as well, I wish you well :D
@@zapazap i think it's a joke since they said that the fires happened multiple times in their school
and with the shooter drills that means that shootings happened multiple times in their school
Seeing all these outcries for armed guards at school right now is just a grim reminder that fear and anxiety take precedence when it come to responding to tragedy.
It really does get to you when the metal detectors start rolling in. It's weird to think that kids of the future will think of it like they do homework or studying. We have police officers in our hallways, I have to wear a photo ID to get into school, and this week I'll have to let my backpack be pilfrered through and go through a metal detector. Does this help me? I don't feel safer, I feel scared. What if the police think I'm dangerous? During lunch I usually just hangout in the bathroom because I'm not hungry. I've had teachers drag me out and force me to go to lunch. Now I have to deal with the possibility that some police man is going to think of that as suspicious. I have a gift that I want to bring to my friend, she had to go to a hospital because she tried to kill herself. And now I have to let some police officer touch that gift, to rip it open, to move it around and see everything in it. It's violating. The anxiety that goes through me when I think about how I could get arrested at school for causing too much trouble. It's happened before, kids thrown to the ground or put in hand cuffs for acting out, for talking back, for acting like a kid. I don't feel safe, I feel scared.
Same thing for me but no metal detector tho
Well, to be fair, in the world outside of school there are already police patrols, and as an adult you’re expected to carry a form of identification on you. If anything the police presence would make me feel safer knowing there are first responders on site. Not minutes away when seconds matter. I’m sorry to hear that they tore open the packaging on the gift to your friend. Finding a balance between privacy and security is tough. Try to think of it in the way that the police are just doing their job. I know they might seem scary, but I’d venture to say that most of them are there with your guys’ best interest at heart. I’m sure a lot of them have children of their own they’d want protected, just like you and your friends.
Welcome to the hell Orwell warned us about.
You made such a good statement, as if you were writing an SA, like, damn, so poetic. But you are right and school's have to take criticism such as this.
@@Drewlette ACAB. Cops are just enforcers of the law, and the law is designed to protect capital. Never trust a cop
This is peak America: Don’t solve the problem, address the symptoms and make the people affected by it feel as shitty as possible in the process.
Shame they can’t do what we did in the uk after the first and only school shooting by outlawing specific guns and hard to access licenses
America the Wimpy and Petulant.
@@potatopotawto1412 What is crime?
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It only took a matter of time before this became the problem we had to deal with. Not something simple, but something so deep rooted that any real solution would take years of world altering change. We can have therapists, but they will not solve the mental health crisis. They won't. You want to solve the problem? Find the source of all these children growing up in terrible situations. This is what we're dealing with. Fixing the world so it's not divided, fixing it so people aren't constantly miserable and on edge, it won't take just providing therapists, or any other small throwaway answer. This is one of the biggest problems we could be faced with, and it's about time we shake ourselves or of this dizzying and sickening spiral to our deaths.
*kid gets to school early and tries to wait for class
YOU CANNOT REST WHILE ENEMIES ARE NEARBY
*You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby.*
Is that why I never sleep at home?
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@@charmyzard noo i was about to say that
I keep coming back to this video, that’s how I know it truly matters
Note: this is not a video about how “video games cause violence” or anything of the sort
@Ivan Ivanovich Ivanovosky Democrats have been saying the same thing since the early 90s. I think it's the one thing both parties potentially agree on. It doesn't change that both parties are wrong that video games cause violence. They don't.
But you won't find a politician stating that the home life of a kid can cause more violence through parent apathy and abandonment then outside stimuli. The parents are the voters after all.
@@Fickji Not _since_ the 90s. _In_ the 90s. Video games causing violence was no longer anyone's position, until that changed just a few months ago.
Democrats weren't involved in that change.
Actually video games do cause violence but only in the sense that the military pays for war games to encourage people to join the military. Why do you think there is a new call of duty every year?
@@doctorrussia the military is not filled with people who play call of duty. The stereotypical call of duty player is very much NOT the kind of person the military is looking for. Not in capacity to obey orders, to cooperate in teamwork, to keep their mouth shut, to maintain their weapons, to communicate in cipher, not in any way.
@@doctorrussia Literally every study about the correlation of violence and video games disproves this. *Video games do not cause violence*. Say it with me. Anyone willing to go and gun down a group of innocent people dont need video games to make them do it. Anyway the faulty argument your side loves is "This person did this therefore a link" How many serial killers had a admiration for something art related? Is every artist now on a path to becoming a serial killer now??? You people are almost as annoying as the anti-vaxxers...
This brings to mind an experience I had in middle school. It was the last passing period of the day. I was stuck in the usual crowd around this one double-door that literally everyone had to pass through to exit the main building and go to the other half of the school, so crowded that you couldn't turn around without knocking someone over with your backpack. Someone screamed. Suddenly, everyone was flooding back into the building, crushing bodies and yelling. I turned and ran. Someone grabbed me by the arm and dragged me into a classroom, yelled to get under a desk. I whispered to the girl hiding next to me, asking what was going on. She didn't know, but she said a kid told her he heard gunshots.
We hid there for about an hour, lights off in silence, until it was announced over the speakers that it was safe to come out. When I left, the street was flooded with cop cars, and there were cops in the main office. I later learned that the violence was actually on the street outside - probably drug- or gang-related, bad neighborhood, you know - but there was at least one shot fired into the school. None of the students were hurt.
A few years later, in high school, we had a shooter drill. Reactions ranged from bored to "come on, again?" Half the students didn't even stop working when the drill started, just staying in their seats. Nobody asked them to move. A friend of mine loudly and sarcastically announced how *safe* he felt, how the tiny wooden desk he was crammed under would *definitely protect him.* Everyone had either been so bored by the sheer number of shooter drills as to no longer be afraid, or they were resigned to the fact that they wouldn't help anyway. It was as normal as getting assigned weekend homework, and received the same reaction.
Y'alls are a joke compared to us, atleast the desk could slow down the bullet enough for you to survive, in Italy if there's an earthquake you'd have to crawl under the same desk to survive 6 floors above you smashing into you, instead of just running out the windows when you're literally at ground level.
@@FalB27 those desks are not going to stop a bullet.
A very small caliber bullet? Yes. A regular bullet? No. Most shooters use weapons with a higher caliber then 9mm.
@@PhoniexStudio yeah but it's easier to sneak in a 9mm gun compared to a fucking rifle
Back in 1980's grade school in USA Florida we had to do bomb drills cause Cuba had nuclear missiles pointed at us. It got to the point the 4th & 5th graders would rather just get paddle for not obeying orders from the teacher than hid under our desks.
You'd think the desks would be made of freaking bullet proof materials instead to be used as shields.
With the ability to almost stop a 50 cal at the least, because who would no scope...
Nvm... Bring that 50 cal minimum in here XD
We're already joking around how the school is a CSGO map XD
Simple design structures that may not even appear to be all that relevant can be damaging in ways we don't quite understand. My high school had two long hallways with a very short hall connecting the two. One of the halls had slightly newer paint and lockers of a different color as well as classrooms that were just slightly larger. It always unnerved me as to why I felt this was wrong or out of place for the duration I attended there. It wasn't until later that I found out that it was built a segregation school to compromise the separate but equal. The school was then built in such a way that whites and blacks would "technically" be going to the same school, but each had their own hall. It has since moved away from that and people of all races go between both halls, but the foundation of racism is built in and you can "feel" it.
Jesus that's a living environment concept for intense psychological horror game.
Your profile pic reminds me of those "beware the red menace" posters, buildings last too long to be built specifically for current culture.
what a socirty we live in.
to fit the racial quota for federal grand but do the segregation ANYWAY.
@@donventura2116 It's more of an uneasiness from the building's past or how certain structures signify events. Kinda like how you might go to a old town square & get creeped out by looking at things that were designed for people to watch executions.
Hadn't seen this until now, but fantastic comment. Thank you.
As other people have mentioned, it really messes with me just how difficult it is to get out of the school building. One of my high school friends transferred from a school that had bars on the windows. In my school (bad neighborhood, lotta gang fights, plus paranoia about school shootings), you could only enter or exit the building by a few main doors that were heavily monitored. Same for cafeterias. The cafeterias were built decades ago with 3 or 4 sets of double doors, but only one was open, watched by a security guard. You had to scan your ID (verifying your name, face, and schedule) to get into lunch. That meant 10 minutes in line to get into the cafeteria, then 10 or 15 more if you got hot lunch before you could actually eat. That left no room for harmless rule-breaking, like skipping class to eat lunch with your friends if they had a different lunch period. People would often be late to class just cuz it took so long to get out of the one cafeteria door they left unlocked. It was nothing like this when my parents and grandparents went to school. Yes, my parents also had metal detectors at school and police on campus, but none of the sense of being locked in. None of the sense of your identity and person constantly being monitored. I worry about kids growing up i the shadow of so much violence and control.
I always thought the story about the kid recreating his school in CS:GO and then getting arrested was really interesting.
Can you link me to something on this. This sounds really interesting.
There used to be a map of the school on our schools website but someone made a map in an fps so they took it down.
that sounds like a plot point from tattoo atlas
It was cs 1.6, zoomer
@@reckless20 based
America: putting a whole new spin on the term "surviving school"
We have reach peak bullshitery
Well at least we're allowed to talk about it. China silences the mass stabbings happening in their schools. Typically committed by middle age low wage workers taking revenge on wealthy citizens who are depending on their children to care for them in their later year.
@@OspreyKnight lol
OspreyKnight this just in, US tells everyone their shit
Amerika, russia, china and north korea and the whole east are everything that's wrong with this world
I remember that in the elementary and high schools I attended, I almost never had access to natural light inside the room. The windows were heavy and reinforced with metal, the walls were made of concrete and whatever room I entered, I felt inside a ventilation duct. It was almost claustrophobic.
For a long time, the concept of a building where I didn't feel like I was in prison was alien to me.
I definitely feel this, my high school was built from a fort used during the Indian wars, and it felt that way; thin windows meant for pointing a rifle out of, huge stone walls.
The only natural light was in the central courtyard and was consistently crowded.
The best example of friendly architecture I've found was in art nouveau era gardens, wrought-iron framing huge glass panels covered in plants.
I can relate that last statement, but for different reasons, while the interior wasnt secure, the fences were very tall and made out of metal, there was 1 gate and there was a office next it to regulating entry and exit, there was a camera almost anywhere and leaving class for any reason was forbidden
When I was 4 years old, I asked my grandma about why she asked to put iron grids all over her house and she told me the truth: the days were changing and violence was increasing in the neighborhood. She replied after saying that, in the future, things could be better again, it was just a matter of time.
Well, it never happened, not until now. She left this world 4 years later, and things just got even worse, years later, at the point that it was necessary to sell the house because my family and I were victims of robbery (with guns) in front of it. To live there was to actually build a prison for yourself to be "safe". I understood this and other considered "mature" things since I was a young kid and, literally, everybody here just knows why some buildings/houses/etc. are "like that". It's on the DNA of the brazilian people already and it really sucks, but guess what, the majority of the people are used to it. We feel "safe" when we are being watched, it's not a paranoia, we literally don't care, we welcome that because other people can "protect" us this way. Technically, Brazil had recently a politic of disarmament (though not for the criminals because, you know) and now is slowly in a process to try to become like USA in this aspect. We can all guess that the consequences would not be great, because the real problem is being ignored for decades, the same as there, although we have different causes for it.
It's nice to see another point of view + the analysis of games that, in thesis, make the shooters doing those tragic inccidents (it's the fault of the bullying and the toxic society as a whole to be honest), but it's like, seeing a realisation that only occured now to an adult in comparision to understand implicity this practically since you are born. Childhood gets a whole new meaning when we are faced with mature things since the beggining, thus proving that maturity is not simply related to aging process (and it has a whole different aspects of it). I'm happy that your society is more carefree in some aspects than mine's, but sad that those practices, almost everywhere at least here in the whole continent of the Americas, are getting more and more common and advanced. When we will have the courage to effectively change?
Not gonna lie, I thought the opening statement was just some sort of strange explanation on game mechanics and design. When it was said they were building designs for a school I had to process that.
12/10, my english and social teachers would be blown away by such a strong opening statement.
You obviously haven't watched any of Jacob's other masterfully crafted video essays.
@@paige135 Yes, that was my first.
I swear in high school I showed every sign of being a shooter.(I have aspergers and incredibly high social anxiety) And never got any help, no one ever asked how I was or why was I always alone. But it’s taboo to say anyone else could share some fault.
I hate school, not because of the education but because I watch people suffer from idiotic teachers, and bullies, I hate sitting by and not being able to do anything
I wish you the best of luck
Same. I also didn't turned out to be violent person. I hated all this trend of saying someone alone=a violent person. Thanks God I didn't lives in this stupid western countries, I probably be arrested for being alone all the time.
People are assholes who will seldom show empathy, compassion, and assistance. You can't rely on them to go the extra mile. So you have to be the one that stands above them, work harder than anybody you know at rising above the challenges of being you, and always remember your roots when you see somebody where you once were. I believe that you can do this, but only if you make the first move.
I don't know what reasons school shooters have, but I can relate to hating school and the people in it. Bullies, teachers who don't care about you, students who don't accept you felt crushing as a teen. Things I found to be helpful:
- first try to live with yourself. You alone are responsible for making yourself happy. Others can help you have fun, but you alone can make yourself truly happy by learning to enjoy life in different ways.
- as a teen I felt emotions more strongly, I guess every teenager goes through this. I think this is part of puberty. When you get older your emotions balance out, so don't worry about this to mutch. Give it time, live with it for a while. It can also teach you to be compassionate.
- look for people who have your back, people you can trust. You will likely never find someone like this if you don't open up and start talking about what's bothering you. Everyone is afraid to talk about their flaws,fears, etc. It takes courage to talk about that stuff, so be courageous!
- do something to help someone els. Of do something else that makes you feel proud, like creating something only you can make.
- accept that life is a process where you'll always have ups and downs. Some people will betray you, but this doesn't mean everyone will. The trick is finding out what makes you enjoy life, and finding out what makes you hate life, learning ways to enjoy moments happening right now, because you can never be happy in the future, only now. So don't wait for something to make you happy, go look for it right now, even small things you normally find stupid can be enjoyed with the right outlook and intreque .
In a nutshell: being happy takes work, but it is truly worth it! When you get it right, you'll know.
Hope this helps anyone.
@@JorikD
Nice
Engineer: *builds school with a design of a prison*
Highschool students: See, School is just a prison
The purpose of school has always been control. Why must the government control what children are taught? Why did the modern school system arise with industrialization? It's designed to create useful human resources, not independent and responsible adults, and least of all people who might question what they're told.
@@gracefool common core was only English and math with geography until michel Obama extended to about every subject just a FYI
@@gracefool We'll it actually came from the people who would be the precursors of socialism. And yes, it was designed to create workers, because informed well educated workers preform better at their jobs and are worth more to their employers. Good workers improve the economy and everyone benefits.
However I like how the Nordic model of schools. Sweden uses a voucher system that allows parents, and later students to put their children into private schools. Socalism and freemarket capitalism working hand and hand to make some of the best schools in the world.
Also I like watching extremists heads explode when confronted by centrist solutions.
@@liquidgarfield8523 good to know, I had no idea, I live in NZ where it's already been like that for ages.
@@OspreyKnight That doesn't make sense, because you know who's better at their job than a student? Someone with experience. Employers benefit more from being able to employ teenagers instead of waiting for them to learn things that are 95% irrelevant.
Designing a school to be "shooter resistant" is like applying a badge to a sawn off limb instead of applying a tourniquet to the bleeding stump. It's the wrong solution, applied to the symptoms rather than the cause.
Shooter resistant buildings won't stop school shootings, or probably even lower their kill counts substantially. In fact for all we know, such spaces may even increase the likelihood of a shooting thanks to that additional element of game. Things like improved health care for students, scaled down media coverage that doesn't plaster the shooters' face and motive all over TV for the next 3 years and legislation regarding safe storage of firearms though, probably would.
But in the politically radicalized 3rd world country with a Gucci bag that America is these days, solving the root causes of issues appears to not be a priority when one can posture and powerplay instead.
Dont forget that many of the "protection" set out by the shooter resistance means that if a fire breaks out then they would be trapped whit no way to flee.
in fact wasn´t there a case where the Shooter activated the fire alarms causing a confusion on what to do.
had he light a fire (he had nothing to light a fire whit by the way) the death tool would had been astronomical as kids could not flee from anywhere in the school.
Ironic that so many of these government officials calling for more heavily fortified schools criticize video games for making this extremely violent, gun-crazy culture, while at the same time basically turning schools into video game inspired arenas for shooters to romp around in.
Nothing stops doomguy; no bulletproof glass, no wall.
@@kommentator1157 i don't know if you intended it to be but this comment is fucking terrifying
Ah yes we can only react any other prevention measures too hard, thank fully the NRA will be sponsoring a school near you.
@@mooncrime4998 luckily doomguy killed his commanding officer for ordering him to kill civilians, so he would be the one keeping you safe, if that eases the terror of that comment for you at all
I'm worried that shooters will take this as a challenge, like "Can I clear all the hideouts and shoot up the safe rooms? It's like a video game level. How fun!" This thought alone is nauseating...
Schools with that much fire cover are gonna have couples making out in every corner
Hey atleast someone will make love not war.
Hey, at least they're not fucking going at it in the middle of tHE FU *_CKING HALLWAY! MOVE YOU BRAINDEAD MASS OF TISSUE! IF YOU WANT TO KNOCK OUT A FAT ONE THROUGH EACH OTHER'S PANTS, YOU CAN GO OUTSIDE!_*
If you couldn't tell, I'm still pissed at couples for making out and causing traffic problems in the hallways. Seriously, at least get out of the way.
@@metroplexprime9901 Couples made out in your hallways?
@@zafranorbian757 yep. Not as often as I made it seem, but it was annoying every time. I did play it up a bit for satire, but still annoying.
@@metroplexprime9901 I think most of our couples left the school grounds or wen´t to the forresty area for that.
Changing the map, doesn't change the way a game is played, it just changes the playstyle. Fixing the issues that lead to the game are the only viable solution.
The problem isn't gonna be fixed, how else are they supposed to control us then ?
I'm guessing you mean the problem, not the solution, well how about gun control and more mental health programs
@@Nymiaz I'm f*cking regarded lmfao, yes, the problem, absolutely, mental health, IMO, is still not taken seriously enough all around the world, as for gun control, idk, where im from you can buy anything short of a grenade launcher/RPG without a license so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@МЭF15ТØFДL V3ЯↁЦИЅНДЄL any suggestions then?
@@Nymiaz Stop forcing kids to go and stop punishing kids for being victimized by bullies. You're creating inescapable hell scapes so destructive that the quiet kid will commit mass murder to simply escape them
I love how this video seems more determined to raise important questions than to answer any. I'm tired of seeing video essays that present themselves as an end to a process rather than the start, without really justifying said presentation. Great work!
When schools spend more effort and money into making school shootings less deadly rather than to stop the shootings from happening in the first place
not all shooters are students.
Not all shooters are students.
most are criminal adults.
Most are criminal adults.
@@pigeonmanepic will you shut the fuck up. Your stuttering on text which makes no sense and your point isn’t full.
@@pigeonmanepic Wrong. Most are students.
To be fair, schools have limited ability to stop shootings from happening compared to, say, the US Congress. Dead kids are just "the price you pay" for a 2nd amendment. That's why I moved to the UK.
How are they gonna stop them from happening?
When I lived in Mexico in a semi big city, all students were held responsible for their own actions since elementary school. Missed hw? Cut a few points. Caught cheating? Automatic 0. Didn't bring money or anything for the party? You were not invited. But you also had the liberty to walk in an out of school if needed, especially since there was no such thing as a cafeteria but having pocket money wasn't some thing that would hurt your parent's wallet. Nonetheless you yourself were still responsible of buying supplies for school and there was always a stationary shop within walking distance for the inexpensive materials. I did two year of high school before moving back to the U.S.
I remember in U.S. elementary school that everything felt like a routine: Wake up, eat, get dressed, driven to school, learn, lunch, learn, home, whatever bit of hw there was, tv, soccer, shower, eat, sleep, repeat. Was never permitted to walk even outside my own apartmenet building for reprimand to my parents of being irresponsible of my decisions. It never felt so overwhelming at any point otherwise, it just was. Coming back to the U.S. to finish high school, it literally felt like prison without needing to do much. All that would be talked about was individuality and you do you or whatever, but only if it's acceptable? If I didn't like the lunch they served that day, either I spent $5 week allowance on a tasteless treat that could only fill a toddler's belly or add another 4hrs to the 4hrs you already didn't eat until you get home because I was 18 but wasn't let out no matter what. Also, there was a staff that always suspected when someone was not in class like a prison guard, as if going to the office or counselor was out of the question of having a folder in hand. And that was 10yrs+ ago, good luck to all the kids that are and will feel this way, I surely hated my last high school years for that.
@Dami Fly you should be.
I literally have my schedule of exactly what to do and where to be every. Single. Day, planned out by the second. It kinda sucks
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@@BrOkEnLiBeRtYbElL ohhh, you poor thing.
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Our high school lockdown procedure (2007-2011) was basically lock the door, stack desks in front of door, stay away from the windows, and huddle in the corner opposite the door. One of my teachers was a Vietnam veteran, and he basically told us the procedure was a crock of s**t, and only we could save ourselves from such a situation. It was some of the most real legitimate advice I had ever gotten regarding school lockdowns. God bless you Mr. Jackson.
Yeah, because once the shooter comes in... Welp have fun! XD
Also what made me laugh was that they used books to hide their faces in one of the stuff XD
What was the advice?
@@GabrielTobing yeah, they tell you that shit in tornado drills. Cuz a fucking dr Seuss book is gonna protect my head from the flying rubble the tornado is flinging. Even when i was in kindergarten i thought it was a load of bullshit
Huh. It seems like the Jacksons are always the best teachers; my favourite teacher is a Mrs. Jackson.
Do I just break the window and bolt it?
"this problem is unsolvable" says the only nation where this happens often
Thank you for the reference to my article in Polemicist magazine. Your video is a logical extension of that line of reasoning into the 21st century. Clearly, someone has been planning and studying these architectural interventions. The lack of academic criticism seems like a huge missed opportunity.
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@@harrishemion9193 what about sentry turrets with titanium shields that paralize people with komodo dragon venom darts and obliterate them if they react
When you realize people are more willing to build entire structures to accomodate violence instead of actually working towards a better education system, the very thing that causes all of this to happen in the first place
Cheaper?
Knowing how high ranking people act that's probably it, they're too lazy and want to spend as little money as possible to solve something
To me it isn't intelligence that's the issue but rather the way it's taught. School shouldn't be so structured in a way that makes someone feel bad for not knowing something, or for restricting them to sit down and listen to someone else talk for hours on end. It should be lively and engaging. Instead of slaving away at work, both at school and away from it, missing life just so you could prove to a system that you "know the material", you should be encouraged to experiment and see what works and be more creative. Everyone remembers hating school, I don't know why nobody has done anything about it yet.
Loansome and you know, bullying
@Boring Name The social aspect and climate of education is definitely the problem, along with the education system itself still carrying the jock/nerd titles into highschool.
Aside from that, the grading system has been shown to not work for everyone, and intelligence isn't a factor in that.
Why do i say it like that?
Because i've lived through it myself. I have mild-autism combined with a reading disorder not much unlike dyslexia, and both have only been diagnosed after i quit college and had to battle my way through highschool, along with an IQ of something like 140. (disharmonic profile, so you can't really say i've got one single IQ score, but several different ones for different aspects of what makes up an IQ score, some as low as 121, another as high as 163.)
All my life i used to hear "you're just lazy, you don't want to, you're intelligent enough, why don't you just learn?".
Education is paced incorrectly for a scary number of people.
You're punished for not learning something quickly, and you're not for immediately forgetting it afterwards.
Grades are the only thing that matters, actually remembering the material you're taught for more than a month doesn't.
This fact, along with excessive bullying and picking on the 'weird kid' (for instance someone with a reading disorder and autism), leads to violence in the caliber we see today.
In Europe, here, we don't have easy access to guns, so when people like that 'weird kid' want to lash out at the world, you're not gonna get a mass shooting.
You're gonna get an angry kid hurling a stool at his biggest bully so hard that his upper leg snaps right in two, and one of it's legs punctures his hip.
That guy will still be hospitalized, but the rest of the school is fine.
Because you've got access to weapons with the destructive potential of an AR15 semi auto rifle, or a Glock 18 pistol, or even just a .22lr pistol, you need to take more precautions when it comes to mental health of your students, and that is EXACTLY the area that is mostly ignored.
There's nowhere for these kids to run to.
There's no way to help them, there's no way to stop the bullying, and in the meanwhile, you're DISCOURAGING beating the other guy up.
What the fuck.
BECAUSE you're discouraging violence, you're not fixing the problem, you're supressing it.
You're telling a river to stop flowing and place a closed dam along it's path.
One day, that dam is going to burst.
And all of you will ask "where did we go wrong?" like the blind chickens you are.
Stop popularizing school shootings by covering them.
Stop giving these kids the idea that shooting up a school will get them to be famous, turn them into the monsters they want to be.
Stop ignoring the problems these children face, and step in. Get them talking with a psychologist, NOT A SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST, an off site one, where they feel safe.
Start caring about the mental health of your students, even if they just have someone to talk to, someone to vent their anger to, that is enough for most.
Even after all these years, it's what i needed most.
Just to be able to talk to someone about the issues i face in my daily life.
Some of these kids have no one.
They're not mentally ill... They're alone.
Be there for them, just allow them to open up.