Yeah, pretty astonished that they were taken alive. It is still crazy to me that Americans have to deal with school shootings.
I am adding this after the fact, this is a long ass reply to a complete strangers two sentence post, feel free to just not read my shit lol.
Imagine how many don't happen but everyone is terrified anyways so the school shuts down anyways. I have been in literally 4 different scares in my life, of varying degrees,
1. they shut the school district as a whole down and we all stayed inside because a guy was suspicious at one single school, it ended up just being some poor fucker walking by with his umbrella.
2. they brought in actual swat and shit because of a letter left in the bathroom about shooting up the school and it was only like 3 days after an actual shooting an hour away. I had no fucking idea it was this serious because they just said like "everyone go home school is dismissed early" so I tried to go to the bathroom and suddenly a dude with a big ass gun was like nah they mean GO HOME and I damn near pissed myself
3. They locked down the school I was just fucking volunteering at this time and split kids and adults to different rooms to brief without spooking the kids but my stupid 19 year old ass was like here I go with the students hum dee dum because I had just gone to that school 6 months earlier so my brain went stupid, that also ended up being nothing.
4. I thought I finally escaped people panicking over every little thing by college. Nope. College gets put into a stay in place due to a bomb threat. Me and a classmate are outside class because it hadn't even started yet and a professor comes up all why the fuck aren't you in class, to which my reaction was "well make a god damn announcement if it's serious" as they hadn't said anything and I guess expected everyone to go in classrooms by word of mouth. Dude I was with was spooked and was like if we have to I will break that window and run.
this did not count the time I personally was interrogated by the principal of my high school for "talking about guns" which I truly to this day do not have any memory of doing and assume at the most it was a conversation about games of some sort with my friend who was also questioned.
All of this is to say, America is hell to go to school in. Everyone is terrified of everything. Alarms on doors so if you leave at the wrong time through the wrong door you set off the whole damn school. Doors locked during lunch etc. I get it, they are probably correct in the end to be so worried given how much this happens, but every incident I was more and more annoyed at how small of a thing set them off. Especially since I panic a bit myself in general, so don't put into my mind that I might get shot or blown up unless you have some concrete information about that being a possibility.
