r/lastimages • u/Dry-Web-4053 • Aug 06 '25
LOCAL Last picture of 6 year old Jesse Lewis, he wrote on his mom’s car “I love You” Few hours later, at Sandy Hook Elementary school. 20 year old gunman Adam Lanza opened fire killing him. Jesse saved 9 of his classmates by jelling to run, while the gunman was reloading his rifle.
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u/SkyTank1234 Aug 06 '25
I live 20 minutes away from Sandy Hook. I still remember the day it happened. These poor children
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u/Chickengobbler Aug 07 '25
My folks live in Sandy Hook and owned a childcare center in Newtown. Jesse was one of our students from a baby and I was his after school teacher and summer camp counselor. I'll never forget that day. The hardest part was listening to his fellow class mates over the following weeks explain how they just didnt understand what happened. Why was their friend gone. Jesse had alao forgotten to take his summer camp photo album we would put together for each child. It absolutely wrecked me going through that, but we made sure to get it back to his parents. Fuck, im glad they tore that monsters house down to the ground.
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u/Bobjoejj Aug 06 '25
I went to school in Washington (43 minutes away) and lived in Sherman (36 minutes away).
At the time I was in Middle School, and we were all “older” so it wasn’t cool to have your parents come in and pick you up, they’d pull up outside. My mom came inside that day; so many peoples parents did, and at first I didn’t get why.
Fucking insane, just…so insane. All these years later, and nothing’s changed.
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u/Artconnco Aug 06 '25
I was in middle school when I heard the news, my teacher turned the TV on. Even at 12 I thought there would be action taken. I’m enraged that the shootings have continued, people have lost their lives, people have to bury their loved ones, and yet nothing is done. When will it stop?
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u/Tumble85 Aug 07 '25
I remember that day because clearly because I was an adult when it happened. I also remember being extra-sad because as an adult, I knew nothing would change.
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u/ReluctantToNotRead Aug 06 '25
I am in CT and had a child in first grade at the same time that this happened. It gutted me. I will never forget that day as we got more and more horrifying information. Weird memory of that week: My first grader got the stomach bug days after the massacre and I was crying because I still had a child to clean vomit off of. I was never more grateful.
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u/Wannesraps97 Aug 07 '25
I am from Belgium and even here is was BIG news. Even I remember seeing it on the news.
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u/pillarhuggern Aug 06 '25
Not bad enough to do something about it.
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u/j_turn2000 Aug 07 '25
what the hell is one person gonna do about it? if this massacre, (along with the countless massacres that have happened since & the millions of people begging for change), aren’t enough to convince our so called leaders that stricter gun control is needed then what is one single person gonna do?
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u/frolicndetour Aug 06 '25
I'll never understand how this didn't result in action.
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u/Lucky-Refrigerator-4 Aug 06 '25
This is exactly my rage. I remember that day. It was so, so dark. It was rock bottom for America. ‘At least,’ I thought, ‘this finally means change.’
Nope. The unanswered murder of these children should forever go down in textbooks as the death American morality.
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u/areallyreallycoolhat Aug 07 '25
The craziest thing to me is that people will say "it's not guns, it's mental health!" but then not do shit about mental health either
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u/Lucky-Refrigerator-4 Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25
And why would they when they’ve privatized most prisons and made them the “holding tank” for those going through mental heath crises?
We’ve elevated one of our own man-made tools (money) to god status and given it an unnatural, cancerous expectation of increasingly positive growth.
Now we feel our tumors and wonder ‘why’?
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u/marieoxyford Aug 07 '25
every time i think about sandy hook i feel extreme dread. it's one of the only things that will absolutely always make me feel nauseous because of how well i remember it happening too. i was in fifth grade and it was the first real conversation my mom had with me about the world. i was at a sleepover birthday party that day/night, and the next day i was high off sugar and staying up late with my friends. my mom called me into her room super seriously and i thought i was in trouble for staying up too late or maybe annoying my friends mom. she told me about what happened and i remember being so confused at first and then i swear that's when my real consciousness kickstarted. she taught at my elementary school so it just made it all even harder. i'm a grown adult now, moved out of the house and my brother has a kid coming in september. literally nothing has changed.
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u/FAUST_VII Aug 06 '25
As an European who can't wrap his head around how this is a thing in the usa;
Will this go down in any textbooks? Do the majority of Americans even care a little bit about stricter gun rules? All I hear is how this results in the opposite. More people advocating for private gun ownership.
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u/CindyinMemphis Aug 06 '25
The majority of Americans are good with stricter screening to acquire guns. The problem is the NRA and the politicians they've bought.
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u/JimmyChonga24 Aug 06 '25
Not to mention that the conservatives who support unrestricted gun laws are vastly overrepresented in our government thanks to the Senate and Electoral College. Here is the fatal flaw of our republic. Rational people are suffering under the tyranny of minority rule.
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u/Lucky-Refrigerator-4 Aug 08 '25
Ohmygods I have been saying for years that we should absolutely abolish the slavery-preserving Electoral College and the Senate!!
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u/baumbach19 Aug 06 '25
What stricter gun law would have prevented this? Its already pretty strict.
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u/Flint_Chittles Aug 06 '25
It’s really not though. Anyone can roll up into a pawn shop and get a gun.
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u/Syncro_Ape Aug 06 '25
It really depends on where you are. Does California need more Gun laws? Nah I disagree. Do Indiana or Texas need more gun laws? Sure i agree.
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u/Lilpoundcake137 Aug 06 '25
I mean universal background checks and some checks and balances across all states would help a lot. But the ammosexuals would rather have dead kids then to stop someone who has no business owning a gun from owning a gun.
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u/faz712 Aug 07 '25
There is a mandatory form to fill out with a FBI background check when you buy from a licensed store
But a lot of states also allow private sales undocumented perfectly legally
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u/skeerrt Aug 07 '25
Universal background checks already exist though, and certain checks & balances just don’t work or aren’t followed. I’ve heard countless stories of people getting out of jail on a DV charge, buying a gun legally because certain flags didn’t pop up or weren’t seen, and then killing their partner.
It’s hard to say who “has no business owning a gun” when you get into the nuanced. Legally there’s already an extensive list of prohibited owners (although this doesn’t stop illegal means of acquisition) but ineptitude or negligence allows them to fall through the cracks.
Ideally stricter enforcement of current laws would be better, along with hardening soft targets e.g. Uvalde was preventable if the teacher didn’t prop a door open with a rock, and if the lock actually functioned properly. But there are a number of mass shootings that would’ve occurred irregardless of any laws, short of an all out ban & confiscation. That’s a slippery slope in & of itself, as we see in Europe there are knife, acid, and car attacks being used as instruments for mass attacks, which is already happening in the U.S. if you look at the recent terrorist attack on New Orleans.
I think generalizing gun owners to that degree is a bit unfair, as 99% of us don’t want to see kids being killed. The problem is always a proposal of new laws/regulations which carry their own cons - e.g. preventing the impoverished / POC from self defense, violating HIPAA, being used as a weapon by an enemy/ex partner, etc.
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u/twinkdrago Aug 09 '25
my dad gave me a gun. i don't have it registered to my name (don't need to in my state) nor do i have any sort of license. when he gave it to me i had never even been to a range. all totally legal because you can just give guns to people you trust, as long as they're not a felon.
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u/CindyinMemphis 26d ago
I don't know the answer but I do know that what we're doing now isn't working. We need both sides to come together and find answers.
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u/skratch Aug 07 '25
For me, ever since it’s been “if Sandy Hook didn’t change it, nothing will.”. I used to think it wouldn’t change unless a politician or their kid got shot, but then a guy shot up a republican congressional baseball game, hit that piece of shit Scalise, and still not a whiff of action.
Pretty sure the only way there’s gonna be more gun control here is if black/brown people start carrying en mass, like at protests
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u/BeraldGevins Aug 07 '25
The thing to understand, from the outside looking in, is that the US domestically isn’t a single country, but 50 all stick together. Yes, in some things like foreign policy and interstate trade the federal government is the main power, but for the vast majority of the countries history the states have had more power, at least when it comes to the people living within that state. The Constitution specifically says that any power not specifically mentioned as the federal governments is given to the states. So some states have stricter gun laws, while others basically have no gun laws, and the constitution is actually very unhelpful in this because it isn’t entirely clear over whether the federal government can pass gun laws that are much stricter than the ones that already exist. At one point the country had stricter laws, but the Supreme Court has flip flopped a lot on this because the second amendment says the right to bear arms “cannot be infringed”. So is it infringing on that right to say that you have to jump through some hoops to get a gun? Or is it saying it’s a free for all? I know from the outside it seems dumb, and we absolutely should have done something by now, but the federal government has historically been pretty hindered by the Constitution. And while there is a majority that want gun laws it’s not a strong enough majority across the country to elect the officials necessary to carry that out. This is very much done by design, as the people who created the US didn’t even really want a federal government but realized they needed one to deal with foreign threats, and so created one that is as weak as it can be while still functioning. The current administration has been taking advantage of that institutional weakness by shoring up a lot of power for itself, since they know there’s no one to stop them.
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u/evynsays Aug 06 '25
It will likely go down in textbooks, though who knows if it will be any American ones at this point (or if we'll even still have textbooks in the near future since we're gutting our education systems 🙄).
I would say that the majority of Americans at this point are too busy trying to keep their own heads above water to be more than surface-level concerned about any issue until it personally affects them, and our system is designed like that on purpose. Our healthcare system is garbage, our jobs don't pay enough, and our educations are expensive and, in many cases, mean little to nothing besides something to put on a resume. We are being kept poor, dumb, and stressed as a means of control.
I personally think that our cultural infatuation with guns seems to be a little overblown to me in European media, though I understand why it is. More people definitely are advocating for private gun ownership, mostly as a means to try to protect ourselves from the fascists that are currently trying to take over our country. However, I think the actual majority of Americans, gun owners included, do think that we need stricter gun laws at this point. The issue is that we have a representative democracy, not a true democracy, and the vast majority of our representatives are incredibly corrupt. What the majority of individual citizens want is irrelevant because our representatives continue to vote against our best interests.
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u/Lucky-Refrigerator-4 Aug 06 '25
Likely, no.
Maybe in the textbooks of whatever remnant of Nation remains when Trump and GOP are finished getting theirs
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u/frolicndetour Aug 06 '25
Yea given that they are erasing slavery from textbooks 🤬
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u/Lucky-Refrigerator-4 Aug 06 '25
Hard to have hope, for sure. Maybe the remnants will reanimate into something better
Zombie America 2028
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u/pancakesfordintonite Aug 06 '25
I remember when this happened and my stepmom was worried about "our guns being taken away by the liberals" and I told her to fuck off cuz she had grandchildren about the same age at the time I couldn't believe what I was hearing
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u/GoldenHelikaon Aug 06 '25
Did she ever change her mind or is she still more worried about losing guns than children being murdered?
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u/pancakesfordintonite Aug 06 '25
I'd call her a c*** but she lacks both the depth and warmth. It's really weird cuz my dad is such a nice kind understanding person and she is the polar opposite. I even called her a lump of ice to her face one time
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u/Fentomized Aug 07 '25
I suppose your dad decided to end the cycle
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u/pancakesfordintonite Aug 07 '25
They didn't get married till I was like 31. I'd like to say they weren't married still but I don't know what's going on in that little household
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u/elrangarino Aug 06 '25
This is the day that America cemented having school shoutings as part of what “America” is.
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u/Lucky-Refrigerator-4 Aug 06 '25
Exactly, instead of policy change Capitalism stepped in and advertises bulletproof backpacks for your little one or white erase boards that transform into panic rooms!
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u/GreyBoyTigger Aug 06 '25
The only action I saw was gun nuts laughing at President Obama crying over the senseless death of children
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u/TheNotSoGreatPumpkin Aug 06 '25
And Alex Jones convincing his congregation that it was a hoax, and all the parents were actors.
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u/VibrantViolet Aug 06 '25
My son was a baby when it happened and I remember holding him close to me and sobbing. Then, no action was taken. None. We got our usual “thoughts and prayers” even though a classroom full of children were murdered.
And since Sandy Hook it’s happened again, and again, and again….with no changes being made. This country is so fucked.
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u/OneRepresentative711 Aug 06 '25
This is when I knew we were doomed.
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u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset Aug 07 '25
I think of it as representing the beginning of America's years of lead. If legislators couldn't agree that even little kids ought to be safe from mass shootings, then there's nothing left that can stop the normalization of extreme violence in this country.
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u/JimmyChonga24 Aug 06 '25
This is the saddest news of my lifetime and the lack of empathy from many after the fact made it that much sadder. Just look at how someone like Alex Jones used this to enrich himself. Conservatives have a penchant for wearing blinders. Anything that doesn't feed their narrative is a lie or a conspiracy. They elected a known pedophile for god's sake.
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u/Lilpoundcake137 Aug 06 '25
The documentary on Jones was so rage inducing.
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u/areallyreallycoolhat Aug 06 '25
I've never wanted to reach into my screen and slap someone more than that one denier woman who kept bleating about the helicopters
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u/scrotalayheehoo Aug 06 '25
the pro birth party cares more about guns than they ever will about saving lies because they want to pretend the 2nd amendment means anything while at the same time trying to figure out a way to change another part of the constitution to let their daddy run for a 3rd term.
it's very easy to understand, half the country does not fucking care about other people. they want control. they want power.
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u/RestlessNightbird Aug 07 '25
As an Australian, I saw the press coverage, wept for the children and families, and wholeheartedly believed it would generate change. It felt surreal seeing no change in gun laws, and that there were even lunatics denying it happened. I'm so incredibly thankful that my kids can go to school without metal detectors and transparent backpacks.
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u/gomi-panda Aug 07 '25
Because when Obama pushed hard for gun control, the Republican led house, which was financially backed by the NRA and gun lobby, flatly refused to discuss any legislation that would restrict gun usage. It was a shame.
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u/Freyas_Follower Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 09 '25
Because by the time this happened, dozens more black kids were killed on the street, and no one cared.
In 2012, there were 8,855 gun deaths in 2012. Assuming those are correct then it means that roughly 170.2 people were killed per week. Meaning that by the time sandy hook happened, (170.2 x 50 weeks), there were 5,510 firearm homicides in the US.
And there was no mourning, no self reflection, no changes in gun laws. Because the people who were dying weren't important enough, or their deaths were written off as "they deserved it." But when it happened to a group of white kids? They're suddenly the most important people on earth. The president cries. The media congregates. But, those other 8829 people? They weren't worth the attention, or the tears.
What you saw is what people like me see everyday: a general apathy, that results in "I'm so sorry" and no real change. You just experienced what many community leaders with no real response from any politicians except for empty promises.
There are even people in this very thread who are saying "i'm shocked nothing happened" never realizing that they re the ones who helped "nothing happening" by showing every politician that gun deaths can be ignored.
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u/frolicndetour Aug 09 '25
I'm not going to say you are wrong because I live in a majority minority city and some of my work encompasses violence prevention, and it is well documented that missing white girls get more attention than missing POC. But I will say that a mass event like this where many kids die is significantly more shocking and more likely to inspire people to action than twenty children being lost to gun violence in different places spread out over a year or two. It's the sudden, stunning loss of many children in a place where they are supposed to be safe. If Uvalde happened before Sandy Hook, I would have expected that to be an impetus for action like I expected SH to be regardless of the fact that most of the victims were not white. Unfortunately, Uvalde happened after we already saw zero action after SH, Parkland, and others so there was no surprise that nothing happened after that.
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u/Freyas_Follower Aug 09 '25
ses violence prevention, and it is well documented that missing white girls get more attention than missing POC. But I will say that a mass event like this where many kids die is significantly more shocking and more likely to inspire people to action than twenty children being lost to gun violence in different places spread out over a year or two.
That is the EXACT problem I have. You just said everything I did, and acted like its fine being normal. 20 dead kids in one place over a year (despite it being significantly less in some places, even as low as a month) is still a goddamn tragedy, but the same people crying over 20 white kids in a single event are the same ones who don't care.
children in a place where they are supposed to be safe
You mean like when schools were used to abuse indian children in the name of civilizing them? Even to the point where we are STILL finding bodies?
Or the vast amount of gangs in schools?
Or how schools won't punish bullying
How many dead kids in one place before people realize that no matter what, schools were never as safe as anyone thought. People will tolerate "a few" deaths, and that is the problem.
If Uvalde happened before Sandy Hook, I would have expected that to be an impetus for action like I expected SH to be regardless of the fact that most of the victims were not white
Why? the call for police accountability, even violently, for decades.
And you said it yourself.
But I will say that a mass event like this where many kids die is significantly more shocking and more likely to inspire people to action than twenty children being lost to gun violence in different places spread out over a year or two.
They don't count unless it happens all at once, right?
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u/Pink-Polkadots Aug 07 '25
the saddest part for me is how even leftists lean into this shitty gun rhetoric by saying things about how school shootings are so rare, how the numbers are overinflated, or how we really need guns to fight back when in the end none of it matters because this SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN
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u/TorakTheDark Aug 07 '25
I have never in my life seen someone even slightly left of center claim that, even by the USA’s idea of left and right.
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u/unperson_1984 Aug 06 '25
1) it did. On a state level ar15s were banned
2) what action do you think would help? Cities with strict gun laws still have gun violence because criminals don't follow these laws.
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u/frolicndetour Aug 06 '25
In a handful of states, not nationwide. And I'm not going to get into a debate with you because I can already tell you just want to make disingenuous arguments about how all gun comtrol is useless so we shouldn't bother.
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u/684beach Aug 06 '25
We have plenty of laws enough for gun control in my state. The problem is lack of enforcement.
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u/Lilpoundcake137 Aug 06 '25
The problem is many big cities in states w strict gun laws are bordered by states with lax and non existent gun laws.
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u/shberk01 Aug 06 '25
I was a senior in high school, sitting in my AP government class when the news broke. Our topic of discussion for that week, ironically, had been gun control. It was a tense day in class, to say the least.
And this happened like 10 days before Christmas. I can't begin to imagine what those families were feeling, looking at the presents that would never be opened.
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u/bazmoe Aug 06 '25
I can't imagine the pain and distraught his parents have gone through and continue to go through
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u/Imnotatree30 Aug 06 '25
My daughter's school doing active shooter drills, instructed the kids to hide first and if the shooter bursts in, to throw books at them. Books are not going to stop a person with a gun. This is elementary im talking about. The fact that nothing has changed after this tragedy makes me sick.
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u/GoldenHelikaon Aug 06 '25
As someone outside the US it boggles my mind that active shooter drills even have to happen. That should not be the norm.
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u/Imnotatree30 Aug 06 '25
We grew up being taught tornado and fire drills, thats it. Kids this young shouldn't have to worry about being attacked by another person. I cant imagine how they feel having to protect themselves, as children, from an adult. Its heartbreaking.
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u/GoldenHelikaon Aug 06 '25
Exactly. It’s awful. We have fire and earthquake drills here and that’s it as far as I know. I know schools get locked down when some crazy is wandering in the area with a gun and the police have the armed offenders squad out, but it’s never ended in a shoot up and dead children. The Christchurch mosque attack was another matter and gun laws changed immediately.
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u/areallyreallycoolhat Aug 06 '25
I'm in Australia and we have lockdown drills, which are not specifically active shooter drills but that's kind of the implication. From a quick google it seems like NZ schools might have the same thing?
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u/GoldenHelikaon Aug 07 '25
I don’t know what they actually do at schools here now, but might occasionally do that. I know official school lockdowns have happened for the odd nutter wandering around with a gun. It’s sad it has to happen anywhere even in countries where there’s hardly any gun crime.
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u/mgmom421020 Aug 07 '25
I used to think this. But I attended a great active shooting class once and now I wish folks of all ages went through them. It was very empowering and significantly reduced my anxiety about mass shootings. Lots of terrible things should not happen, but even if they’re rare, adequate preparation can be what keeps you alive.
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u/Leftylooo Aug 07 '25
They did them on the first day of school this year, and hearing about it, just normal talking about thier day from my kids. I got very very sad.
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u/faz712 Aug 07 '25
How else are they going to prepare the shooter to know where everyone hides?
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u/GoldenHelikaon Aug 07 '25
Sad but fair. I presume it involves barricading everyone in classrooms and hoping for the best?
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u/Tia_is_Short Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25
I graduated from American high school in 2024. The older lockdown drills were certainly like that: lights out, window shades down, hide in a corner in the classroom, etc. Post Parkland - the 2018/19 school year - they changed drastically, at least in my county. They started using the ADD model (avoid, deny, defend) instead of the older “cower in a corner” model.
It basically went like this:
Avoid: if the intruder was located far enough from your classroom, you evacuated the school. Unlike fire scenarios, where we were told to gather on the soccer field, they said they we were supposed to get as far away from the school as possible. “Run into the woods” and “run to the church across the street” were the common things teachers would say. “We’ll track you down eventually, just get to a safe place.”
Deny: this is what you did if the intruder was too close to your classroom for you to safely evacuate. It’s essentially the classic “cower in a corner” thing. This is when we’d barricade the door with desks and such.
Defend: this was the worst case scenario - the intruder getting into the classroom. We were literally told to throw everything at them: staplers, chairs, textbooks, desks, etc. The basic idea was that an intruder can’t kill everyone if the entire classroom attacked them at once.
I never actually experienced a real lockdown. Just a few partial lockdowns for mundane shit like bears being on campus or a local Dairy Queen getting robbed. We also really only did lockdown drills once a year, or maybe once a semester, unlike fire drills which were done every single month.
I’m the same age as most of the Sandy Hook victims, and during the 2012/13 school year, we really didn’t have serious lockdown drills at all. They were once a year, and the teacher would just have everyone stand in the bathroom for a few minutes, which is unfortunately the exact same position that many of the Sandy Hook victims were found in
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u/GoldenHelikaon Aug 07 '25
That’s interesting to learn, thanks for that. It’s still crazy to me that it’s even become an issue that needs lockdown drills for. If I was a parent over there I think Id be terrified of sending my kid to school.
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u/Tia_is_Short Aug 07 '25
I’m with you. I thought about the Sandy Hook victims a lot around when I was graduating. They should’ve been walking the stage too
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u/mymomsaidicould69 Aug 07 '25
Yep. I work in K-12 public education and we have to take active shooter training every year. Mind you, my district had a fatal shooting event 4 years ago. It’s so scary to go through.
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u/Glittering-Gap-1687 28d ago
I’m a teacher and we have used fire hoses to put over the top of the door on the hinges so the door won’t open. I put magnets on the back and keep them on the side of the door ready to be used.
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u/Imnotatree30 28d ago
Thank you for taking it so seriously. As a parent, I honestly appreciate when teachers go above and beyond for our kids.
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u/Mundane_Ad_8597 Aug 07 '25
What the hell did this dude have against 1st graders?
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u/pr0fofEfficiency Aug 08 '25
This fucker had a ton of problems. Theres a theory that his actual target was the high school but changed plans last minute (according to the True Crime Garage Podcast). Both were schools he had attended.
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u/KOStrongStyle Aug 06 '25
I can't imagine his family's pain. I don't think I'd ever be the same again.
This country is beyond broken.
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u/pittstee Aug 08 '25
R.I.P I can t stand the conspiracy theories around this not happening or staged. Get a life..
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u/EntertainerAlone1300 Aug 06 '25
First time hearing this and I’ll try my hardest to remember his name. The absolute bravery of a 6(!!!) year old to save others when their own life is on the line is too much, rest in power Jesse and if the devil is real I hope he fucks Adam Lanza forever.
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u/Bambieyedbiotchh Aug 06 '25
Ugh. No matter what you end up doing with the rest of the car when you get rid of it, you take this door off and just keep it, right? Couldn’t imagine having it in me to get rid of that.
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u/WearyWater Aug 07 '25 edited 29d ago
A sweet, brave little boy who saved his classmates. My heart breaks for his family. Tragedies like this are so preventable and should’ve never happened.
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u/Comprehensive-Ad3974 29d ago
And what have we done as a country since then to prevent us again? Anything?
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u/baileylikethedrink Aug 06 '25
Dunblane happened and the uk government came down hard on gun control… I have no idea why the US government can’t do the same. It’s so fucked up.
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u/Drago_133 Aug 06 '25
They ain’t taken mah guns. My redneck neighbor whenever they talk about gun control. I could go shoot up an elementary school kill every last teacher and student and nothing would be done about gun control
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u/Traditional_Rice_123 Aug 06 '25
It's interesting because as a British person my first thoughts were about Hungerford and Dunblane. But you can still legally own firearms in the UK with a legitimate purpose. Maybe it's a public health issue as much as a legislative one. I remember that day well - could not believe what I was seeing on the news. Unspeakably terrible.
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u/CalRipkenForCommish Aug 07 '25
Stop using shooters’ names. Let’s celebrate the lives of the victims.
That said, I would like five minutes in a small room, no cameras, no witnesses. I have things to…say to him.
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u/One_Refrigerator455 Aug 08 '25
Yes agree. Every sandy hook victim post on this sub is adam lanza this and adam lanza that
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u/nickgreatpwrful Aug 06 '25
My heart breaks all over again anytime I see something about this. The amount of people who will argue till they're blue in the face that they have a right to own a gun no matter who gets hurt or killed, is infuriating to me. If any singular event showed how morally bankrupt and corrupt our government is, it was this.
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u/Psych0matt Aug 06 '25
I don’t mean to be insensitive, but what do you mean by “by jelling to run”? I assume it’s a typo but I can’t for the life of me figure out what it was supposed to be
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u/Canad1anRebel Aug 07 '25
Gonna be unpopular, but I sincerely doubt he saved anybody’s life by yelling to run. If the gunman was reloading, that means everybody already heard the gunfire and was probably already running. If they were hiding, in the time it would take a child to see someone reloading and yell run, his gun would be reloaded by the time those people started running.
I know we all wanna believe that people died for greater causes or whatever but can we just accept that this kid got killed for nothing and didn’t save nine people’s lives? Ah what do I know.
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u/goatlime Aug 07 '25
Have you ever tasted a lightbulb? I highly recommend trying one. You sure deserve a good lightbulb snack after this comment
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u/Masala-Dosage Aug 06 '25
Don’t publish the name of the murderer
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u/QwertyPixelRD 5d ago
This. There's no reason why this should be downvoted. Plastering the gunman's name everywhere just gives them what they wanted, notoriety.
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u/Either_Coast Aug 06 '25
Fuck Adam Lanza in hell with a rusty fork