School Shootings?

Question

I'm PETRIFIED to go to high-school because of all the school shooting stories, especially since we have a bunch of wackos at our school, it makes it that much eerier. What should i do?

Answer 1

drop out hide in your closet eat natural sugar free foods wrap yourself in 15 layrs of buble wrap wear a helmet and bullet proof vests at all times move to utah! there u should be safe! the point is you dont have to be so scared this RARELY happens. every school has their lunies u dont see every school shot up.

Answer 2

highschool is not that bad. i just graduated from an inner-city school and i had very little problems even though i was surrounded by wackos too. You just need to know who to trust and who to keep your distance from. Highschool is one of the best parts of your life and don't live in fear.

Answer 3

ANYONE could be shot dead ANYWHERE at ANYTIME.  Random shootings happen at malls, restaurants and businesses and everywhere. You can't go through life paranoid of shootings or any other disaster for that matter.  You have no control over that.  

I haven't heard of any school shootings in a while and I watch the news all the time.  So just go to school and don't think about such things.

Answer 4

Sorry to say school shootings are getting more common.  But its not just high schools, elementaries, intermediate, high schools and colleges have all had them.  Some have been stopped by SRO's armed school staff and my students who took action before when they heard something about it in the halls and those who took action when it was happening.  

There are lots of other things more common than school shootings.  But you can not focus on just those things.  Focus on why you are there, and report anything weird or dangerous.  

Some counties have made all guns illegal and people still get shot.  Laws have never stopped a bad person from doing bad things.  

Active shooters are not just attacking schools, malls, offices, and churches are targeted also.  If you fear the thought of being a victim you soon won't be able to leave your home.  The best thing is they are not common and more people are getting more involved in stopping them from happening and better training is out to help stop them if they do.

Answer 5

dude high school is bad ***, dont worry you have a better chance of getting hit by a school bus than actually getting shot calm down i made it through 4 years of high school, guess what i didnt get shot at

Answer 6

just relax. I know it sounds scary, but just think there will not be any more. I go to Columbine High School, where a huge school shooting occurred April 20th, 1999.

Answer 7

Okay, I'm in HS. It's okay to be scared. In fact, you should be scared. The world as we used to know it is gone. The media not only promotes "bad news" in my opinion, it desensitizes us.  We have to prepare ourselves for the worst.

Just, don't be petrified. You should never let your fears overbear you. It's not likely to happen. If you want to prevent things like shooting from happening, be nice to people. Talk to people you'd never think about talking to. Reach out and make someone's day.  By using  the term "wacko" it's only making the situations worse. You have to understand that people get hurt by words. Being hurt, those people go to extreme measures. Ghandi once said, "Be the Change You Want to See in the World." For our world to change, we have to. Each person, One by One.

Shootings can always be prevented. It just takes someone to care and somone to take the first step in prevention.

So dont be scared. It's not worth agonizing over and not letting yourself enjoy the experience of going to HS. Remember, always reach out. You never know who you'll save. Trust me on that.

Plus, schools should have drills in case one day  that happens. They'll teach you what to do in that situation.

Good Luck!

Answer 8

How many schools have never had a shooting? How many have? Your chances of being shot are less than getting hit by a meteor. Keep looking up when you walk outside.

Answer 9

Don't worry, it would be like winning the grim reapers lottery. There are at least a hundred million schools out there and you hear about a school shooting only once every three months of so. you can either view it as you have a 1 in 100 million chance of being that unlucky throughout highschool, or that you would have to go to highschool for a hundred thousand years to have that happen to you.