Koreans React to American PSAs FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER

[@lilyrose-mo7iy]

The second psa never fails to make me feel unsafe or on edge

[@scoobsmcdoobs5701]

That's literally the point. It's propaganda produced by a gun control activism group to play on your emotions.

[@amberfuchscia709]

We are the most violence-prone country on the planet. We are (per capita) the most heavily armed populace in the world. We have so many mass shootings that only the truly horrific even make the news. We can buy military grade weapons (with little to no background checks) at gun shows and on the 'net. WE NEED BETTER GUN CONTROL.

[@scoobsmcdoobs5701]

@@amberfuchscia709 out of the 23,000 gun control laws on the books in the US, what should be added, and why aren't the ones we already have enough?

[@amberfuchscia709]

Scoobs McDoobs I grant that I am a liberal Californian. I must also state that I grew up with over 200 guns in our home. My father was a gun collector. My father also. took me and my siblings target shooting on weekends. I learned very early on how to be safe around firearms and other weaponry. My father also told us that if we wanted to hunt...use a camera, not a gun. I do think I rather succinctly covered which laws need revisiting...gun shows are one of the most blatant ways people get around the gun control we do have. We also have NRA whining about 2nd amendments rights every time a particularly horrible mass-shooting takes place. They say the same thing every time..."we need to wait until the emotion of the moment has died down" knowing full well that people move on to other things. They forget how awful it was to live in the moment of the tragedy. Yes, we do have gun laws on the books. But there are so many work-arounds that most gun laws seems to be useless.

[@scoobsmcdoobs5701]

@@amberfuchscia709 For someone to have supposedly been a lifelong gun owner, you're very easily misled on the facts surrounding them. The "gun show loophole" is a myth. The NRA is a useless organization that have helped write every major gun control law on the books, the continual "boogeyman" association they get from your type is honestly hilarious. And I won't respond to everything in that giant wall of text but the 2nd amendment has nothing to do with hunting.

[@Valkyseeeee]

As someone who has survived a school shooting (IA, East high school) I’m so glad to see how well these men responded to the messages. Rather than just brushing it off as Americans arguing about guns as they tend to do, they were able to see the underlying intentions of the PSA’s, despite a language barrier and difference in culture. Very observant guys, they’re the good type who will hopefully help bring good change to wherever they live now.

[@newgrl]

Bullying is a serious issue, but cannot totally explain the actions of a child that walks into school and shoots everyone in sight. More attention needs to be paid to mental illness in the young with access to real mental health professionals for poor students available.

[@Mila-Rosa]

In my experience, the 'loner kid' usually self isolates and ignores all attempts to reach out to them until other people just stop trying. My middle/high school didn't have much bullying but there were loners

[@lizlewis6364]

@@Mila-Rosa exactly! ppl don’t realize that a lot of school shooters weren’t just ‘quiet kids who needed friends.’ Most were racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and many were white supremacists. I agree that schools need to better address their mental illness. Instead of ppl just encouraging other students to endanger themselves by reaching out.

[@joesoto3975]

@@Mila-Rosa I was the loner and classmates would make fun of me because once one person started it just kind of spread. Most of my friends were special needs as I took the medical aid course so I learned to help and deal w any issues they had daily. I took what happened to me and chose to help those who are more defenseless than me but not everyone reacts to bullying the same way some people break

[@rachelpelfrey6647]

Yes I heard a story of a young man who was almost a school shooter. One person gave him attention and stopped him and now he's healthy and happy. Instead of just talking about guns. . . Most of these springs were 100% preventable but the school board and community ignored the signs

[@binaryrot9173]

@@rachelpelfrey6647 thank you, exactly! These teachers are useless, if anything, they’re who I mainly blame for the shootings.

[@samsgirl7821]

It's amazing to watch a different culture react to one of the most horrifying aspects of the US. School shootings are so common here, we have been desensitized to it. 😔

[@saiyongdawn7756]

😭I will never gets used to something as tragic as what I see myself and my country going through. Never.

[@samsgirl7821]

No one said that we are used to it... I will definitely never get used to babies being slaughtered in broad daylight, with a high powered rifle, but we absolutely are desensitized in the way that the entire country gets distracted by stupid political talking points and then just moves on without doing ANYTHING MEANINGFUL AT ALL. Just like all of the other shootings. The so called "thoughts and prayers" from our so called leaders are insulting at this point. I am so fucking tired of this STUPID CYCLE it's disgusting and appalling. I am angry, I am LIVID but I also feel completely helpless to do anything about it, our politicians and the NRA hold us all hostage.

[@saiyongdawn7756]

There's a moral decay going on throughout the whole world not just in America. The morale is very low on human life as we see around the world. This also need to be confronted and handled. 🤔

[@Therealcania]

No we haven’t.

[@NullitasOfOne]

Fr. You see it on the news so often it's like, 'oh that sucks' and move on with life just because it happens so often. Death is just another daily occurrence and even if its children it's just another day.

[@Stealthspy589]

These men are hitting the nail on the head with their guesswork and they've likely never even stepped foot in the USA. Very astute and intelligent people.

[@IzzyKawaiichi]

As an American who went to American high school and went through lockdown drills like everyone else, what I will say about the "quiet kids" is that it mostly refers specifically to kids who don't talk to people and resist social interaction. It's not usually because people won't talk to them. Usually there are already psychosocial issues involved. In my grade, there were probably two kids who were on everyone's radar as "if someone does it..." Thankfully, nothing ever happened, but the year after I graduated, the school went on lockdown because of a threatening note. Two other kids had been bullied (allegedly) for years because they were... weird. Then they abducted and dismembered a dog. They had been arrested, and one kid stayed in jail but the other was bailed out by his mother (the school secretary) and returned to school. Predictably, the bullying worsened-- because who does that?-- and he's the one who wrote the note, although it was determined to be a lie as he didn't actually have any weapons. When mass shootings happen, it's usually kids who already had issues. Bullied kids target their bullies. Mass shooters are out for anyone.

[@moccalou]

This is such a recent phenomenon. I graduated American high school in 2005 and I've never heard of an active shooter drill. We just had fire and earthquake ones. You younger generations need to treat your peers better!

[@IzzyKawaiichi]

@@moccalou The first "mass school shooting" happened at Columbine in April of 1999. I started kindergarten that August. I think that makes us both millennials? So were they. You can say "younger generations," but it was our generation that started it all. The mass shootings that occur now are essentially copycats-- kids who are miserable for one reason or another and want to take it out on others. I guess lockdown drills hadn't taken hold nationwide by the time you graduated, but the next mass school shooting was at Virginia Tech in 2007. You say you graduated in 2005, so... wouldn't that be even closer to your age? "Younger generations" my foot. It's not a generational thing-- people have bullied and been bullied since the dawn of time. It's that two kids at Columbine got the idea to massacre their classmates, and now every other psychopath who wants to go out with a bang will try the same crap because it's sensationalized. Being bullied doesn't mean you'll try to murder everybody-- you have to already be in an unhealthy mental state to even consider that, and that's not the responsibility of your classmates.

[@moccalou]

@@IzzyKawaiichi Yeah, I'm one of the older millennials. Guess I'm talking to gen z. I was in 6th grade during columbine. I remember watching the news in class. I just wanted my shake my cane at the new kids moment. I actually listen to Dylan Klebold"s mother Susan talk about some of these things like suicidality and how you can start devaluing life if you don't care about your own. And I'm sure a bunch of it is social media taking hold in the 2010s. Bullying didn't used to follow you home because there was not a great online presence. You didn't take to Twitter because it didn't exist. There might have been Myspace but a lot of people just ignored it. You'd go on message boards for your one particular interest, and then you'd only add your friends on MSN Messenger, ICQ, and AIM. A lot of it I imagine has to be, yeah, the copycat glorification of the Columbine massacre. But it took technology and the interconnectedness of the entire world to really jump start that kind of glorification and access to media that drew attention to it. Obviously, if there's a lot of bullying going on and it's taken to social media so that the victims don't feel like they're ever free of it unless they do something rash, then I would stand by my conviction that students need to treat their peers better. School faculty need to be more in tune with what's going on, and parents have to actually care and raise their children better as well. A lot of people my age already have kids in elementary school so yeah, millennials need to do better too I guess. Like those parents of Ethan Crumbly. They're probably about my age and they seem like horrible people. Actually, they're probably gen x. Not a lot of 34 year olds have 15 year olds.

[@KrisFlicks]

@@moccalou it’s not just about treating peers better, it’s the fact that access to these weapons are so much easier than they were before

[@tonya8469]

Very astute

[@gargutz]

its funny that he mentioned a mom dressing her kid in a bulletproof vest because there are literally bulletproof backpacks for sale here

[@Mary-sh2bp]

I grew up in the Philippines and the USA. Never did I watch a school shooting PSA back in the Philippines. We would do fire drills and earthquake drills, but that’s about it. Then, I came here and when I was in 8th grade, that’s when we were all gathered in the school gym and watched the Columbine shooting. That was my first real awakening of gun violence here in the USA. As years pass, there were Virginia Tech Massacre, Sandy Hook, Florida shootings, Las Vegas shooting, and sadly, many more. It is such a huge problem now. I have many friends that are considering home schooling for their kids now. My middle school and HS didn’t even have school gates or high fences when my siblings and I went there. Now, not only are there gate and tall metal fences, there are also police officers assigned there now and K-9 that are patrolling weekly. The US is a beautiful and proud country. When you see us, we smile as a greeting. It’s not a perfect country, but there’s ni such thing as a perfect country.

[@BlakeStClair-zi6nc]

I have no idea who you are my friend, but that was one of the most touching things I’ve ever read. It’s true that Americans are criticized for how we respond to gun violence and how we respond to stuff in general, but thank you so much for this comment. I’m honestly a little teary eyed rn

[@ayanoaishi8489]

I love seeing how people react to it. Instead of just brushing it off they took the matter seriously even though it doesn’t really happen in Korea. I think that’s very mature and goes to show that people should be taking things like this as seriously as they do!

[@Ariel-my7lh]

Everyone take this seriously except american. If they really care about their people gun would be banned already.

[@minshooky110]

I'm watching this after the Uvalde tragedy...this is a REAL problem here in the states, a true nightmare. I'm a mommy of two boys that are still too young for school...

[@jonneha7]

uvalde was devasting...19 little kids dead. the texas police response was terrible

[@spidermonk3uVvwy8-2]

@@jonneha7 yep, it was the Border Patrol that took care of the situation

[@jenapodaca3072]

Im a high school student in the US. These issues are absolutely serious. About a month or two ago someone brought a loaded pistol to my high school. Yesterday someone brought a loaded gun to a middle school about 5 miles from my house. They were even prepared with a hit-list. Today threats were made to my high school. They said that the school will be bombed about an hour and a half from now. Today is the last day of my high school career and I have to live through it terrified. We need help.

[@Koala_Kawaii311]

Honestly I thought you were talking abt the high school near me because every thing you said sounded familiar but then I saw the time and it isn’t the same as when it happened. It was the first day of high school that kids got a bomb threat :,)

[@Koala_Kawaii311]

Sadly and thankfully my parents don’t allow ne to go to school or have friends

[@teresaromero4738]

I'm a quiet kid myself I barely have any friends myself but I kinda think that's how we want to stay. It's also really hard to interact with people I will tell you though when people talk to me I get quite happy.

[@moccalou]

Dang. I was only in 6th grade when Columbine happened. I'm glad that it took so many more years for things to get really bad because by the time I got out of high school in 2005, there still weren't active shooter drills or anything to make us feel unsafe. I feel bad for kids nowadays. But I also wonder why there are so many messed up kids in the first place. The workplace shootings and violence haven't gone up. Why school? Too many glorified attention-seeking Columbine copycats? Too much mental illness? Too much access to disturbing information? Who knows.

[@theclarksvillepiper9202]

Not enough parental monitoring and not enough spankings when they need it.

[@radbunnie2297]

I felt the same thank god I was done with school but then I realized my nephews and niece is in elementary. Now I think about this every month.

[@pizzamonies793]

As the guys in this vid pointed out...this doesn't happen in most civilized countries like South Korea, because all guns are banned... In addition, these same countries, like South Korea, have free healthcare, including mental health issues treatments.

[@radbunnie2297]

@@pizzamonies793 Are you saying the US isn’t civilized? Please explain?

[@pizzamonies793]

@@radbunnie2297 No, I think it's messed up how many young kids have gotten killed just these past couple of years while going to school. And that we charge kids for basic lunch during an 8 hr school day when other countries give it for FREE. Or that we're only one of TWO countries in the entire world that do not promise mothers leave after giving birth, most are expected to work up till their due date, and be back to work asap, leaving their one or two week old babies with complete strangers at a daycare. OR that we let folks die in their homes every day because they cannot afford their neccessary prescription drugs...something that again, is covered in European & Asian countries...HECK even many African & South American countries make sure citizens all have access to basic healthcare. Let me continue: We bury students in school debt, something that all the places I listed above also realized is a dumb thing to do, imagine strapping 44 MILLION 18 year olds with six figure debt THAT the government collects interest rates on for their lifetimes. We even have govenors & officials in DC with stocks & investments tied up in the companies that handle student debt! Not even getting into the fact that water across the US is becoming more & more undrinkable, not just Flint, (WHICH still isn't fixed!) look into Phily, or Pittsburgh, or Milwaukee, or even many small towns across the US, many are having issues with providing basic clean water to citizens. Just top off this list with a housing crisis, an abismal minimum wage that isn't AT ALL livable for anyone, Lack of guaranteed vacation time( SEPERATE from maternal leave- again, almost every country besides us has this, too!), government corruption, ( we literally had a terrorist attack on our nation's capitol a little over a year ago with multiple casualties), rampant racism- especially amongst our police force, women's rights being rolled back in MULTIPLE states, MULTIPlE STATES making new laws allowing people to commit hate crimes against LGBTQ folks, oh and... THE LARGEST PRISON POPULATION ON EARTH, many of whom are paid pennies a day to make goods in America, including things like furniture for our officials in DC. 😑 I dunno, sounds like a God awful country. Wish more Americans could afford to travel so they could see just how bad they have it here...but most can't because we're all wage slaves strapped with decades of debt...🙄 (Also multiple economists around the world have pointd out that the US is likely to collapse in the next couple of decades, and that other countries need to prep for folks trying to flee/immigrate. Good grief)..🤭

[@urban_fox4658]

I took these videos at face value, not as propaganda bc I didn't know they were political messages about banning guns and, most likely, neither did these guys. I think that's why they were able to hit the mark and respond to the HUMAN issue and not the GUN issue ... which was spot on, btw.

[@mei42na]

You do know that bullying is a problem in korean schools, thus their conclusion. They relate to it more than the “gun issues”. It’s really is both a gun issue and a human issue.

[@marianne4902]

Guns do not shoot themselves. Even if there’s a bullying issue, which there is EVERYWHERE in the world, the only country that suffers mass shootings is the US. It’s tragic. But since nobody cares about the people dying, lemme say it to the effect that these egomaniacs can understand: it’s embarrassing.

[@i_kpop_fan]

It’s not about the guns. It’s about the fact children are dying and the government can either provide funding to make schools safe, or make guns harder to get if you don’t need one. No one says “ban guns”. But there are common sense practices that could be in place that aren’t, such as requiring a mental and physical health check as well as training for someone to own one, and ensuring people properly store them away from children.

[@thanussongprasart2568]

Bullies or mental health are everywhere. School shooting is only in the US. What do you think make up the differences?

[@CadeHXH]

We definitely need to tackle the gun issue though. The human issue is insanely intangible and perhaps unfixable for a long time, it will take a ton of social and cultural change in America. But we can be tougher on guns in the now and prevent ease of access now and later on into the future. A person shouldn't be able to just go buy a mass murder weapon, keep those at gun ranges. And even pistols should be insanely tough to get and a long long long process with a ton of background information.

[@anonnnymousthegreat]

Mass shootings in america doesn’t just happen in schools. It pretty much happens everywhere, grocery stores, malls, movie theaters, churches, etc…you literally could be at the store just to buy something like a pack of gum and end up as a victim of a mass shooting in a split second. And that’s because you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time by chance.

[@shirleydurr411]

It's the prevalence of guns with no purpose except to kill people and assault rifles which kill masses of people. That's why you don't see these kinds of incidents in Korea.

[@imperialwhovian3461]

But the real problem isn’t with firearms it’s why people feel the need to commit these violent crimes in the first place, solve that and crime of all sorts goes down

[@anonnnymousthegreat]

@@imperialwhovian3461 Mental illness is not being focused on as well in america.

[@imperialwhovian3461]

A lot of it is people in general don’t know how to act civilized towards each other, few people are taught respect or how to actually be kind but also fewer are taught to take accountability for their own actions so when they screw up they take it out on others rather than own up to mistakes and fix them, honestly it’s largely a parenting issue as it start there

[@childeater319]

Yea, its definetly a human issue as much as a gun issue. Take germany for example, guns are legal but you have to have a licence in order to purchase one and you have to go to a specific gun shop to find hunting rifles and such. But germany takes great importance to mental health as well, it doesn't cost much anything to get a decent therapist to talk to and the free heathcare makes it much easier to be admitted for mental health reasons. Overall, they make it easier to get help as well as harder to get guns. Thats why you dont hear about shootings there.

[@JTheGuideBV]

Some people say it's propaganda, but for me who live in country that have same law like these two gents, it is actually proper way to raise other's awareness about the social isolation other person might had endured. Problem is do you care to talk with silent kid in the back seat? XD

[@Serai3]

The only people saying this is propaganda are the people for whom their own "rights" are worth more than the lives of their community's children.

[@IzzyKawaiichi]

Problem is-- does the silent kid care to talk to you? A lot of the perpetrators just hate everybody for no reason.

[@Serai3]

@@IzzyKawaiichi Nobody hates everyone for no reason - there's always a source. In some of these kids, the source is exactly the fact that no one will talk to them. They feel neglected and angry because no one wants them around - which of course is a vicious cycle.

[@ellenjones7819]

@@IzzyKawaiichi We all have been teenagers once. You know about the kids that were picked on or bullied because they are different. It's even worse because of access to social media. I can only teach my children to be kind. They don't have to necessarily speak to some shy kid, but they wouldn't bully or mistreat someone.

[@IzzyKawaiichi]

@@ellenjones7819 Yes, there are plenty of kids who were picked on or bullied, but it takes certain kinds of internal issues to decide to shoot up a school. Those issues won't be resolved by people talking to them.

[@stonent]

Should have done the "this is your brain on drugs" egg video. There's the fried egg video and the one about heroin where the girl destroys the kitchen.

[@randomizedassault8124]

I was waiting for that one! Seemed they just focused on school shooting psa tho. Or the paul Reubens "this is crack" one

[@mingbing7946]

It's sad that PSA's about shooting in school have become the norm. Just this week, 19 children in elementary school, plus 2 adults lost their lives after a guy entered the school and began shooting.

[@cherylmarquez2645]

Every school has their little klicks & snobs as we called them back in the day. If someone is quiet & doesn't talk to many people, how many of you will take the time to talk to them first instead of waiting for them to talk to you first. How many kids are very shy or feel unaccepted? It's time to stop the bullies and act like they had nothing to do with making somebody feel worthless. Kids can be CRUEL, more so than adults because adults think about how to treat other people.

[@cynicallysalty4592]

Ya'll prob gonna get some hate for this, but I appreciate the video. Ofc these videos each have a set narrative they're supporting and a lot of American's get fired up about the gun debate from all sides. I will say that it's interesting seeing the reactions from other people who don't have the same gun laws as us see how different it is. Regardless of peoples' opinions on the matter, school shootings and accidental shootings with unsecured weapons that are accessible to minors is a real issue here that people like to ignore for some reason.

[@mayhemacres725]

Don't forget the weapons in the hands of drunk or otherwise impaired people. My grand daughter's classmate was shot and killed by his own father who was playing with a gun. 7 years old. I have plenty of firearms and no one can access them but me. My husband has mental issues and he doesn't even know where they are - and that is as it should be.

[@cynicallysalty4592]

@@mayhemacres725 I'm sorry to hear that. Lost my two cousins the same way. My fire arms are hidden away from my own father as he has suicidal and violent tendencies.

[@askosefamerve]

Both of you are great gun owners, actually this is how gun ownership should be like.

[@moorooster223]

on top of things like bullying and mental illness, the public display of previous mass murderers give inspiration to new killers. most of the school shooters in the past 2 decades have been found to have a profound interest in the true crime community. marilyn manson was one of the first public figures to point this out, speaking about the columbine shooters, that if we give them fame they get what they wanted.

[@petepal55]

Teach your kids, don't let the world beat you to it.

[@sspiker]

I was in high school during Columbine... My friends in college during Virginia Tech... My kids were in Elementary during Sandy Hook... My kids are in highschool and college... Uvalde... Nothing changes.

[@AM-rc5nz]

The editors immediately cutting from the PSA's to Dimple's bubbly and jovial background music is so jarring lol

[@saiyongdawn7756]

There are various reasons for school shootings and mass shootings that are going on in America. Mental health is one reason, some feel lax gun laws are another issue. In my opinion morale has sunk way low in society. Right now we're in the midst of burying more innocent children bc of another mass shooting in our schools. Not to mention other innocent victims from earlier mass shootings. Very sad tragic and heart wrenching. 🙏🥺😭

[@spookytini6202]

I graduated high school in 2020. I went through approximately 5 real shooter lockdowns and countless shooter drills. We started doing these drills in elementary. It’s scary to think that you might die every time you go to school. We have a problem with bullying but it’s also a mental problem. People have broken home lives and shitty parents. All problems stem at home. Racism, homophobia, and just hatred towards people are learned behaviors. As a society and humans we have to learn empathy and respect for all humans. Regardless of their beliefs and background, we have to accept each other. Maybe one day we’ll have a more understanding society.

[@InfernoPhoenix123]

Someone brought a gun to my school for a week and no one noticed the only reason anyone found out was bc a teacher got a tip from a student who saw it. So school got closed on picture day and it would have been the best time for a school shooting bc everyone is in the same area. It actually scared me knowing that on that day it could have been my last day too.

[@cookycookyjk7976]

School shootings are often talked about from 2013-2022 there has been more than 800 school shooting and more than 200 deaths across the U.S. so yes this is a big problem in the U.S. but there are controversies against gun control and a huge debate about it.

[@jesikabuttram3784]

I’m happy that channels are bringing attention to this problem in America. It’s sad to think that there have been more than 200 shootings since the beginning of the year. We recently just had the biggest massacre happen in a long time at a elementary school. 19 children and 2 adults were killed. It’s sad to think that this is what the United States have come too.

[@miyejis]

The second one never fails to make me teary eyed.

[@ashlipope5079]

I lived in the town that had one of the largest shootings with 17 dead. They happen almost monthly in the USA now sadly. It was in Colorado. We have an open weapons law that makes it so guns are readily available. I grew up shooting daily and being in competitions, hunting ect. My dad re loaded most of his medications. Usually it is very irresponsible gun owners that don’t keep them in a safe and it’s in the culture to collect weapons just for beauty and shooting for fun and skill with a military history like America. Right now you could go to my dads and open a vault and find pretty much what would freak you out but what couldn’t be safer in the hands of my father. Probably 75 percent of our local community are gun owners, and although it sounds scary it actually keeps us safer than if we didn’t have them as we need them for protection as crime rates sky rocket.

[@sarahodomlee1139]

It’s refreshing to see & hear reactions from a very different perspective and cultural background in the gun violence issues that all of America has been deeply impacted in some way or another 😢 As an American I still struggle to comprehend why we get so caught up on the “motive” behind these horrific events, because there doesn’t seem to be any “reason” for anyone to carry out such acts as those portrayed in these PSA’s. Remember that those shown in these PSA clips are recreating the REALITY of one too many of our citizens who have actually went to school one morning a normal kid, with bright and amazing futures ahead of them & their classmates, teachers, coaches, etc. to either never have the gift of attending school, or making new friends again. Remember the countless number of survivors whose lives are completely turned upside down & their innocence stolen… their right to make good and bad choices in life and get to learn from them, and to become better people for it gets taken from them. No matter the circumstances in one’s life, the actions, reactions, choices or responses to them should not consist of violence against another… there ARE resources available & there ARE good people to be found in anyone will try hard enough, long enough to help change/stop whatever circumstances arising in one’s life that are difficult… the answer will never be to pick up a firearm and use it against someone unarmed, unaware…etc. It’s a sad topic for us ALL!😢 I appreciate y’all’s honest responses to this issue. Praying for changes here in the US to prevent the rising of gun violence, and violence in general!

[@AngelGarcia-yb2vm]

You know.. for as long as I’ve lived here in the US and gone from Head Start all the way up to High School, I don’t think I’ve ever seen commercials like these. My High School once had a bomb threat from a female student who swore it was a joke but the school didn’t tolerate it and legit called DHS (Department of Homeland Security) to investigate/monitor. I don’t even know how many DHS agent were at the school but I do know from personal experience that on every floor (The main school building had 3 floors and the newly added building had 2 floors) there was ALWAYS an agent at the top of the stair case of each floor watching over everyone that walked by. They even had a couple agents walking up and down the sidewalk where the buses parked to load up or drop off the high schoolers. The agents legit looked like characters out of the Matrix movies. Shades/glasses, black long coats, and that clear ear piece with the wire leading down to their walkie-talkie.

[@i_kpop_fan]

Unfortunately in the US, the gun violence PSAs aren’t shocking. Since the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999, over 292,000 students have been involved in school shootings here. Our kids go to school with clear backpacks, walk through metal detectors and do “active shooter” drills to prepare in case someone comes, but most schools don’t have the funding or people make it about politics instead of precautions. Occasionally there will be a shooting that perks people up more than others, Sandy Hook in 2012 when 20 6 and 7 year olds were shot and killed in their classrooms as their teachers tried to hide them. Most shootings are done by a fellow student (in the case of Highschool or even Middle School) but there are also many cases of adults going to the school because they are angry at someone there, or have family or a significant other who works there. At Sandy Hook the shooter was a 20 year old who first killed his mother then went to the school for no actual discernible reason. He just wanted to hurt kids. It doesn’t end. People make it political instead of making it about common sense and trying to protect people. Some people treasure their guns over other people’s safety. It’s sad. People on one side say get rid of guns, the others say they want to ban them. Instead everyone could meet in the middle and talk about what common sense things can be done in schools or workplaces or even at homes, just to ensure that those who handle guns are able to use them properly and are mentally and physically responsible.

[@michelekcmo1]

Four days ago there was a school shooting 15 miles from me. He was a popular senior that played football. Three injured, two were faculty and the resource officer (in 90% of US schools, usually from 6th grade age 11 until you graduate, we now have a Police Officer at the school all day) This officer shot the student but he is not dead. Amazing and appalling to think there is a shootout at a high school. In September a student was at school with a loaded gun in the town I live in. Someone told and it was “taken care of”. I don’t understand the need for all of these guns in the US. It is scary to me. Shootings daily. The gun owners say people want to take away their rights. I can tell you the people that have died have def lost all of their rights. *** In 2007 a 23 year old South Korean student killed 32 people at Virginia Tech University where he went to school. His parents had immigrated to the US when he was 10. I’m not naming him, you can always find the article. It brings up Being a product of your environment. As always the guys in black had amazing reactions!

[@imperialwhovian3461]

What is happening in Ukraine is exactly why we don’t want to give our guns up, but also have you thought that if parents actually taught their kids about firearms safety and raised their kids to be accountable and responsible that maybe that would solve many of these problems? If you don’t solve the issues with people themselves it doesn’t matter what you take away they will still cause harm

[@rachelt4792]

⁠@@imperialwhovian3461 Citizens of Ukraine were armed after the invasion started. Also, how do you plan on making parents more responsible in order to control our public health crisis?

[@jheuer8162]

To this day… Newtown, Connecticut makes me sick to my stomach and my heart aches 😢

[@Redmask00]

When I watch this video I thought that school shootings happen everywhere and they were normal but now watching this it hit me that they are not normal and very rare in other countries.

[@aminsaleh7686]

Most PSAs and PIFs have 30 Seconds of runtime, 80% of haveing Scary or Creepy music, and A 100% chance of giving you PTSD.

[@Carbonf1ber001]

Exactly why I'm doing virtual school it's scary how schools in the US are rn

[@JLDREAMS]

I dont think it helps the situation when we make kids fear the 'quiet kids', some kids are simply introverts. Imagine getting labeled as someone who'd be a school shooter when all that you really are is a kid who's abit shy and reserved. I think that'd make the kid more likely to harbour resentment for the school

[@jewel1200]

Shooting schools do happen mostly because of students who have been bullied or even when the teachers seek to find people who are more likely to cause a shooting. There can also be times where home life can also lead to someone shooting up a school. I had many moments where I have been bullied many times where I just..got so angered where I almost considered it but I never did. You know why? There was always someone there by my side (usually an animal) that I could vent out everything to them. Sometimes walking in the halls certain people would smile at me and it would brighten up my day. A lot of people do not like hearing about people saying they almost considered shooting up schools but there’s a huge prevention to that. Stop being unfair to the students (because sometimes teachers do that) and stop the toxic attitude spreading. I’m also a Canadian and there is gun control and I appreciate it but I also support the handling of a weapon. A weapon should only be used to defend yourself and your property from robberies..but even if there is gun control, the bad people always get a grab on a gun anyways. The best preventing is kindness and when someone’s alone don’t be afraid to go up. As a shy person, I see and feel people alone so all I can do is smile and say hi. Just one small action can deflect that situation from arising.

[@hyunjinlvr]

a few months ago, there was a shooter at an elementary school I used to go to, but it was like an hour before school actually started, so that was good that no one was there, because my friend goes there and I’ve been friends with her for such a long time and I wouldn’t wanna loose her.

[@lizsays3324]

All of these same problems happened when I was in school 30+ years ago and there were no school shootings. Because we didn't have children and teenagers with easy access to the types weapons that only soldiers should have.

[@sampsjt]

not true at all, if you're talking about the AR15 platform of rifles, they have been available for public purchase since the 1960s

[@trash-3058]

The second psa is another level The end like oh my god it’s so sad

[@brendasimon833]

school shootings and just mass shooting in general are really such a problem here in the US. parents send their kids to school and worry if they will see their kids after school. it’s really such a tragedy how many lives have been lost from school shootings. so many kids have to find other uses for school supplies. schools do emergency drills just in case a shooter does happen to come. in my school during quarantine started allowing kids to come back to campus if they wanted or stay online. i stayed online. during my english class, there was a code red drill (code red means there’s someone dangerous on school grounds or around the school). my teacher forgot to mute himself and was literally teaching my class (people physically in class) how to kill someone with ordinary school supplies in case anything ever happened to them. so many schools are subjected to shootings. so many kids die because of them and so many kids are scared to even step foot on a school campus. i remember in 3rd or 4th grade, it was literally the end of the day. i was walking out the front doors of my school and i was immediately pulled back into the school and told to get back in my classroom. we were placed on lockdown because there was someone who had a gun and was near my school. i had no phone so i couldn’t tell my mom i was okay. she was freaking out. i was freaking out. i ended up staying almost 3 hours after school because of this. i was so glad to be alive. unfortunately most of school shootings do come from bullying. majority of school don’t do anything until it’s too late. i know my friend at my old high school reported so many threats against him (he’s black and he’s gay so he got bullied a lot) and the school turned the story back on him and basically buried it so the reputation of the school wasn’t ruined. so many kids get bullied and schools either make it the victim’s fault or never do anything. it’s so easy to get guns here. you don’t need a license or anything to prove you can own a gun. as soon as someone turns 18, they can legally buy a gun. a lot of people (mainly people underage) buy guns from people off the streets or find ways to get them without going into an actual firearms shop which you can literally find in the same shopping center as your favorite restaurant or local grocery store.

[@enipreciouspenny4785]

This was a great topic to discuss, school shootings happen more than people suspect, this video is a nice reminder that even if you are safe not everyone else is, please continue to make open minded videos without fear if criticism.

[@patrioticz2858]

Actually they don't, you do know if a kid brings an Air Soft gun to school it can be considered a school shooting or if a gang member shoots a different gang member a block or two from a school it is also considered a school shooting. When teachers in America used to teach kids about guns in schools like how to respect them this didn't happen, another aspect is mental health and how the media covers school shootings because some shooters don't want to feel insignificant and want to be remembered in some way even if it is a horrible thing they are remembered for.

[@enipreciouspenny4785]

@@patrioticz2858 I'm sorry I think this is a language barrier, I don't understand if you're agreeing with me or not😅

[@patrioticz2858]

@Eni Precious Penny partially agreeing but also disagreeing. Where are you from and what language do you speak?

[@enipreciouspenny4785]

@@patrioticz2858 I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about them. Their way of speech is a bit messy just wanted clarification.

[@xxsn1ffyxx92]

This genuinely hits me every time I watch this video. Knowing what happens everyday here, thing I have gone into lock down for, knowing kids and adults die all the time here.. The first time I saw their reactions I was confused for a few seconds because in my head I thought “how could this be suprising? It happens all the time.”. It does happen all the time here. Not there. I’m tired of jumping and turning fast with all of the other students when we hear a book drop. I’m tired. I’m 23 and in college and we are STILL scared because colleges are attacked to. When I was in middle and highschool they installed these boxes that could be turned on by our teachers finger prints if a shooting happened. If one alerted they all unlocked. It had medical supplies, self defense supplies, even zip tie handcuffs if we caught the person. I’m tired. I’m so tired.

[@IluvHarryBieber]

Let me just say that the narrative that school shooters are often bullied is not true .. those kids are usually socially isolated because they show sociopathic tendencies. Lots of people experience bullying to some extent, only sociopaths go on killing sprees

[@AvaCaldwell-jh6ff]

Last year, my middle school had bomb threats, weed circulating, 2 fires, over 2 dozen fights, threatened school shootings, attempted kidnaping, and my state is still over the 30 safest states. Please help, I have to go back to that school again this year, I’m scared, what if I’m not one who survives this time, please, please, please help, help the teachers and the kids. I don’t want to die nor do I want my future kids to be scared like me right now.

[@Rishi_Moon]

....whos gonna tell them about the bulletproof plates you can put in children's backpacks at 7:35 (Florida)

[@thecabbagepanda]

The most pressing issue is that kids can have access to guns. These are children, barely in and out of puberty, who are somehow allowed to possess a weapon that can kill a large group of people in an instant. Of course, mass shootings can take place literally anywhere in America, but a child mass murdering other children because they got their hands on a gun should be unthinkable, not even a mere thought.

[@sspiker]

The fact that it keeps repeating... Nothing changes because those in power do nothing to prevent it... Uvalde Elementary...

[@Yourlocalmultistan]

The fact that the second video is based of the sandy Hook elementary shooting is terrifying it's been 11 years since it took place in 2012 almost 12 years I only was two found out about it threw KZbin when I was six

[@biohazard9164]

Things like this do happen. My school never got shot up but we’ve had two bomb threats and two kids have been expelled for acting like they were going to shoot it up. One kid, during 8th grade year, had made a hit list of students he wanted dead, and some other kid found it. All I know who was on it was one of the nicest girls in the grade, she was on it. And another kid got expelled junior or senior year because people overheard him talking about how he was going to shoot up the school

[@biohazard9164]

We also had monthly lock down drills where we re-enact what to do in a school shooting, and one time they did it so intensely that they had an actual shooter in the school shooting people with rubber bullets (after traumatizing some staff that were shot they stopped that) and had us routinely walk out of the school down to the safe spot with police officers with AR15’s lining the sidewalk and we had to walk with our hands up

[@Ming3484]

It's sad how many innocent lives have been lost in these school shootings. I graduated in 2001, and there was only 1 time we had a lockdown at school. Even then, the lockdown was because a turkey had gotten loose and was running up and down the hallways. It's sad how even kids as young as 5 or 6 have these school shooting drills so they'll know what to do if the unthinkable happens. It's like kids cannot just be kids anymore. They have to grow up to quick and be put in situations that can be hard even for adults. Even outside of school there are so many mass shooting, over 400 in just the first half of 2023. Of course we won't go around living our life afraid to even go out, but it is something that may be in the back of our minds.

[@skull1244]

For the second video they showed I have a memory of seeing it on tv and it scaring me really bad

[@DireConsenquences]

American PSAs are actually pretty tame, at least compared to Commonwealth ones, British, Canadian and Australian PSAs in particular are brutal.

[@dr.killson7355]

Wait why did you only choose the school shooting ones there are other PSA’s out besides these like Drugs, drunk driving, or even child abuse and one of those was from Canada

[@Logangaudern]

yes, bullying is a big problem and is the main reason for school shootings. However, it is also important to know that's not always the reason. When I was in elementary school an 18-20 year old male with a gray shirt and a gun was walking around our school. This is why we have SRO's.

[@Beckeybc89]

I live in the US and my son is going to 2nd grade. So far there has been bomb threats and possible shootings. I am so scared but my son needs the education. and being around kids his age will help him develop friendships. I am beyond scared.

[@AnnaRogers1211]

Idk if all American schools do it bust most schools have you do drills for shooting at least once a month

[@dotdotdotdotdotdotdottod]

they looking at this the wrong way.not them sterotyping quiet kids.just cause somone dosent make a lot of friends dosent mean there being bulied. some people like smaller circles. besides its not always the quiet kid that dose these shooting's. and being bullied isnt an excuse to murder others. one wrong dosent allow you to be wronger

[@gang-ridertv5433]

Scary, but you have to understand that there is a big political intrigue over who gets to teach their kids in America. The Government, or a private school, or the parents? All 3 a capable. In MN they legalized private colleges or something of that effect 3 years ago or so. So it sorta becomes a debate of weather Americans should have the right to bear arms, or should publics schools where large numbers of vulnerable children are vulnerable even exist? One could argue that the right to bear arms combined with freedom of speech and the freedom of religion and the right to vote in America is the very thing that keeps the west from being like Russia and China and the Middle East and Africa. The people in those places most likely aren't anymore evil than anywhere else, but I guess the west does a better job of keeping their governments on a leash than anyone else. Guns are an object of power, do you take that power and potentially misuse it or give it to someone else who might misuse it worse than you? Personally I look at guns the same way I look at cars, there are a lot of Americans that get killed by both but cars kill WAY MORE and kids are expected to drive them at 16 without much choice.

[@extra4635]

I'm really shy so I dont have alot of friends in school, I so get teased for this💀 ive been asked if i have a gun in my bag and if I'm gonna start shooting- i was so shocked to be asked that😭💀

[@dsherwood3889]

I have two young grand kids that I worry about going to school every day.

[@_-Bozo-_]

My teachers in 7th grade all had plans if someone came to shoot up the school, my sister’s ELA teacher was an old man (he’s retired now) and he said he’d make the students go in the corner of the room to hide and he would be holding scissor right next to the door in case anyone came in also some kid said they’d be holding up chair to throw at them- nobody has shot up the school tho! :D

[@copper9643]

yeahhh, this is a real concern and there are things like bulletproof backpacks rising in popularity for sure in the USA; its not like everyone has them- far from it, but they are definitely more mainstream these days, I've been shown ads for them in the past. More info in this VICE video which covers the topic a bit kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXLCnYmGetV0rLM

[@liamblack2574]

The leading cause of these actions aren’t bullied kids. But the American peoples unwillingness to revise gun laws and prioritising owning a gun over their own children’s safety is the leading cause

[@KristenLawson_91]

Last couple years has gotten worse for mass school shootings in America; and with younger victims than high school students.

[@Princess-dq2jb]

It’s extremely sad that school shooting is a reality to too many students. The amount of times my school has be threatened and schools around us have had shooting themselves is disgusting and nerve racking. Yet still some ignore it as if it’s not an important and pressing issue

[@FirstNameLastName-wt5to]

School shootings are incredibly rare. They just receive disproportionate coverage by the media compared to everyday crime and violence which harms and kills way more people. School shootings happen everywhere and have been going on since schools existed. But they have always been rare. They have not increased. Plenty of historical information online about it but people instead choose to listen to for-profit media who makes money off sensationalizing events to increase viewership which increases ad revenue and politicians who use fear to win elections.

[@steph-steph-]

Same. Just a couple weeks ago our school was threaten to be shot up. Luckily this student stopped and told the security guard they had a weapon on them and let them know of another possible student who would have one too. 😬

[@nocount7517]

As Firstname said, actual school shootings are extremely rare (and really only became a thing after Joe Biden's _1995 Gun-Free School Zones Act_ passed into law) and upwards of 95% are violent crime involving the use of a firearm, unintentional discharges, and suicides with a firearm that occur within a certain radius of a school building.

[@askosefamerve]

@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to Think why they get so much media covarage. Oh, i dont think its becuase people literally dying in a place wjere they are supposed to learn becuase of stupid gun laws, right?

[@samm1561]

aren't these PSAs also telling children that are bullied that the appropriate response is a school shooting and that it's the responsibility of potential victims to be on guard with no responsibilities put on the deranged Criminal

[@rtc1256]

I was a "quiet kid" in high school, but not exactly the type depicted here. The idea of carrying out a mass shooting because you were annoyed with people just seemed stupid to me. I may or may not have secretly carried a Kel-Tec sub2000 in my backpack all throughout senior year so that I could return fire if a school shooting ever happened there. Nobody ever found out, and thankfully, I never had to use it. I always have, and still do, believe that trying to solve gun violence with gun control is completely pointless when literally anyone can cobble together a Luty submachine gun in their garage with nothing but hardware store junk, or steal a gun, or 3D print a gun, or just go the black market route. Laws only work on people who are willing to follow them.

[@brendanposey265]

exactly, well said man!

[@legorockstar2000]

Well satistically speaking, many of them have underlying mental health issues. I too was a quiet kid, not my whole high school life but for 11th to 12th grade I spoke top no one. I wouldn't dare think of doing such things, but I have met people with mental health issues that I believe would do it. Some people just reach a certain point, and for others they don't. It's sad but it's all about the mindset of the individual.

[@theclarksvillepiper9202]

I was the quiet kid, I was bullied daily. My shirt collars were stained red with the blood that bullying drew every day. I even had to get stitches for it once, but I never considered going in and shooting up the school. This is a direct result of parents not being engaged in their children's lives.

[@lizlewis6364]

@@theclarksvillepiper9202 I agree! I think also the rise of right-wing propaganda emboldened many school shooters. Especially the gun worshiping and the notion of solving issues using force.

[@theclarksvillepiper9202]

@@lizlewis6364 I'm not gonna get into a debate about right and left wing propaganda. But I will ask you to look into the political affiliation of mass shooters. It may surprise you what you find.

[@mochimujin2036]

lmao sometimes my school has police search our bags at the entrance

[@InktheImpassive]

It feels like in America, everyone just has access to guns.

[@jimmyalfonda3536]

4:06 they're like "what the fuck, America is actually like this?"

[@skyl5487]

what a country America is

[@Izzy_Wild]

3:58

[@marylaird2834]

Guns are everywhere in America. Sometimes you can find one on the street. And a gun family will definitely train their pre-teens to use a gun.

[@eannasimilis5736]

This is so sad America needs to change

[@icegds18]

I find it so strange how I laugh at these psas just because Im so used to seeing school shootings, and school shooting adds. It's kinda terrifying how desensitized people get to things in the usa, that are absolutely absurd in 99% of the rest of the world.

[@burnouter7]

What's the source of the second psa

[@feetpolice7135]

PSAs like this dont really help... bullying isnt the main cause. School shooters dont just go to kill their bullies. They write political manifestos influenced by real political actors in America and theres nothing anti-bullying can do to stop it when the things school shooters believe in become mainstream. Hate Speech does not equal Free Speech. These PSAs were made when the question of why people commit school shootings was poorly understood, but we know better now. They write about starting race wars or enslaving women.

[@juliuschingtham2009]

what type of movie is this

[@Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh]

Stuff like this can also be a mental illness problem. In America, doctors will do the bare minimum to help patients to keep them coming back and paying them more money. Social media doesn’t help with mental illness, but instead heavily encourages mental illness instead of finding a cure. Such a disappointment…

[@ilaera7830]

I grew up around this.

[@rooseveltbrentwood9654]

eh it’s a thing that happens but i think these kinda of PSAs are overdramatic. There nothing wrong with planning, or having a “active shooter” drill, but this just winds people up unnecessarily IMO.

[@4444randomness]

Now I wanna see them react to the anti drug videos

[@duckydoo4691]

just depends what state

[@-JA-]

👍

[@user-jx9on3cz3v]

Koreans react to American girl group "Boys World"

[@seanaudette8389]

Or right i forgot... Sometimes some crooked agency gives these psychos the guns and tells them to go do it then try to stop it

[@hidakinika3553]

I'm still a quite kid ig 😂😂😂

[@matycrossing]

I think it’s time we stop blaming bullying for these shooting accidents often times the student that does the shooting is a horrible person and has a horrible personality it’s victim blaming and the true reason is that these people have access to these high power guns and easy access to a large group of people

[@SeaSeaGoddess1992]

Well it dat ish happens bruuuuuuhhhhh it happens a lot nd dey still wanted us to go to school

[@BReNĐN-c6n]

Anti gun propaganda

[@NattyBright92]

PSA =Public Service Announcement and not Positive Success Aggressive.

[@roadsidebong6333]

I tried to vs a korean one time in an RTS i lasted about 2 minutes

[@patrioticz2858]

3:10 so criminals in South Korea don't have guns? Lol

[@bighaneul89]

Not really. Maybe like those mafia people? But im Korean and ive never seen a gun here or heard of a person getting shot even on the news.

[@patrioticz2858]

@haneulk7789 because all they have to do is threaten people with it to get what the want, also just because it isn't on the new doesn't mean it doesn't happen like most US media don't talk about black crime and black on white crime or the fact most Asain hate crimes in the US are by Black and Arabic people or the fact many of the story's of "Me too" they cover ar fake like "Matress girl" where a girl carried a mattress she was supposedly sexually assaulted/.raped on but they didn't cover how it turned out to be fake along with all the other fake aligations. Another on most media fails to cover is the fake hate crimes is on the rise, same with fake sex allegations, or the rise om hate crimes against white people

[@patrioticz2858]

@haneulk7789 lot of information of the Russia v Ukraine fighting is fact on both sides like Ghost of Kiev

[@patrioticz2858]

Australia too who like to say their gun buy back program and banning helped stop gun deaths, turns out not really and violent crime is up. Not counting and estimated 1/3 of the guns were recovered.

[@patrioticz2858]

Fun facts most law abiding gun owners are are even less likely to commit crimes than a Cop becausethey don'twant to lose their guns, if laws and protocols on the book were followed by the government itself then most mass shootings wouldn't happen, most illegal guns comes across the US-Mexico border were leftist/Democrats refuse to secure

[@RetroJack]

This is why the rest of the world laughs at and/or pities America.

[@Aaron-ru6ld]

The countries that laugh at us are countries that have benefited from us.

[@RetroJack]

@@Aaron-ru6ld Most countries benefit from other countries - that doesn't make America any better than any other country though.

[@takami_0710]

Does buying guns make you take mental wellness checks to get one? if not, they probably should