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I Survived A School Shooting And It Affected Me For Life

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

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

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Claes Gustavsson 5 years ago

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

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Lucinda Overhoussen 5 years ago

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

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Foxxy 5 years ago (edited)

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

7points

Lauren Kaufmann 5 years ago

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

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