Survey

Q 1: Have you ever seen someone related to you with a hand gun?

Q 2: Have you ever been bullied?

Q 3: Have you ever thought of hurting someone really bad?

Q 4: Did you ever hear of any school shooting incident?

Q 5: Was/is there any bullying at your school?

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Based on the survey we did to 21 people including students and teachers, we discovered that nowadays is a very common thing to have a gun or at least have seen one and this might contribute to the fact that obtaining them so easily, influence people to commit acts of violence. 

About bullying, the results of this survey clearly show us that as well as in the USA, in our country most of the people have suffered from bullying and can relate to our topic. Luckily all of the people surveyed have already heard of this kind of incident and show interest in learning more.

Check this movie out!

This is the trailer of the movie called "Bang bang, you're dead" and it is based on real life events that involve the Columbine incident. Try to watch it, you won't regret it!

Cool slide

Check this slide with examples of some massacres we didn't mention before, and it also speaks about our country.

http://www.slideshare.net/Gabyduaigues/school-shooting-presentation-bis

Bullying

Bullying is common between teenagers, mainly at school but also outside of it. Actually at least 10% of them are bullied on regular basis.
Most of all it can be physical or verbal but it follows a certain pastern. Boys tend to use physical threats and the victim can be either a boy or a girl. On the other hand, girls stick to their gender when it comes to the victim and they usually use verbal offences. 

However, all bullies search for weak children, often younger or smaller than them, with not too many friends and easily intimidating. This is because, teenagers who bully are eager to control and dominate others because they have somehow been victims of physical abuse or bullied themselves. 

Bulling is something that can cause terrible suffering. It can interfere with your social and academic life and without early intervention it can lead to emotional and even legal difficulties.

Mostly bulling victims became depressed or reluctant to go to school and their grades can be poorer. Children who have been bullied can even attempt suicide. 

When bullying is detected, the best thing to do is to seek help from professionals. Pediatrician, teacher, principal, school counselor or psychiatrist, anyone who can help the child understand the cause of the bullying and maybe to help the school create a program to prevent and stop students´ destructive behavior.

To combat bullying you can try anger management training, peer mediation, conflict resolution and increased adult supervision on playgrounds, in lunch rooms, bathrooms, on school busses or unsupervised halls.

What is most important is to detect this problem, find professional assistance as soon as possible and try to diminish lasting emotional concecuenses for the child. 

By: Magdalena Rom

Learn more here: http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/bullying

Rise Against- Make It Stop

Make It Stop (September's Children)

Rise Against

Woah, woah.

Bang bang go the coffin nails
Like a breath exhaled,
Then gone forever.
It seems just like yesterday
How did i miss the red flags raise?

Think back to the days we laughed
We braved these bitter storms together
Brought to his knees he cried,
But on his feet he died.

What god would damn a heart?
And what god drove us apart?
What god could...

Make it stop
Let this end.
Eighteen years pushed to the ledge.
It's come to this,
A weightless step.
On the way down singing,
Woah, woah.

Bang bang from the closet walls,
The schoolhouse halls,
The shotgun's loaded.
Push me and i'll push back.
I'm done asking, i demand.
From a nation under god,
I feel it's love like a cattle prod.

Born free, but still they hate.
Born me, i can't change.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
So stay awake with me, let's prove them wrong.

Make it stop.
Let this end,
Eighteen years pushed to the ledge.
It's come to this,
A weightless step.
On the way down singing,
Woah, woah.

The cold river washed him away,
But how could we forget.
The gatherings hold candles
But not their tongues
Too much blood has flown from the wrists,
Of the children shamed for those they chose to kiss.
Who will rise to stop the blood?

We're calling for,
Insisting on, a different beat, yeah.
A brand new song.

Make this stop
Make this end
This life chose me, I'm not lost in sin
But proud I stand of who I am
I plan go on living

Pictures From Virginia Tech Massacre

VTM Confessing Video

This was the man who killed students, friends, sons, brothers, sisters, and his last words before killing himself.