Great ad

[Anakin McFly]

https://youtu.be/A8syQeFtBKc

[Derived Absurdity]

lolwut?

[phe_de]

I'm not sure I agree with the message.

Should we start monitoring any student who shows "signs" of violence? What if the student is just a video game geek and happens to like ego shooters?

Maybe school shootings are preventable; but in my opinion when a student already displays signs of "I don't like mondays", it's too late.

But I'm neither a teacher nor a psychologist.

[Gendo]

Yeah, one one hand it was a neat idea that they know you won't notice these things on a first viewing, but will from then on. Kind of like the basketball video for those who know what I'm talking about. But I don't like the message of "you can tell if a guy is going to kill you all because he likes looking at gun magazines."

[Anakin McFly]

The video was done by Sandy Hook families who cited how 80% of school shooters showed prior signs of violence, including sometimes telling people that they were going to kill everyone, but were never taken seriously. I wouldn't want any student who's sad to be treated as a future criminal, but if a student seems visibly distressed/depressed, they would at least benefit from getting help - even if it's just a counselor to check in on them and see how they're doing. If it turns out they were potential shooters, it's disaster averted, and if they were just going through a hard time, the extra support would help.

I don't like how people who are clearly about to snap often go ignored - not just in shooters but also suicides, where post-death people might mention that yeah, it seemed like something was bothering him a lot. I was depressed throughout most of the second half or high school and extremely suicidal by the time I entered university, and based on the angsty violent stuff I was writing in school essays it definitely showed. But I had to drag myself to the counsellor because no one ever did anything. I had to (literally) drag another friend to a counsellor after months of him being profoundly messed up (family having financial problems, alcoholism, abusive boyfriend) and frequently talking in apparent sincerity about wanting to kill everyone. Nobody else noticed or cared, and it shouldn't be that way.

[OpiateOfTheMasses]

I thought it was a good advert - if only to get people to think a bit more about these sorts of things and to keep the conversation alive and at another level rather than just "ban guns"/"don't ban guns" which is never going to go anywhere.