This ad!!! Whoa!

[Are_grits_groceries]

[OnDoutside]

1. Wow, I have goosebumps after watching that. Never expected

That. Thanks.

[Dem2]

2. Well done!

[Loryn]

3. Wow!

[MissB]

4. Powerful.

Well fucking done

[livetohike]

5. Oh my....goosebumps and tears. Excellent ad.

[DLevine]

6. K&R. nt

[Raine1967]

7. That was a gut punch.

I shared it with no comment on the Book of Face.

Thanks Grits.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Thank you for this, my dear grits...wow. Powerful. Moving. Scary. Eye-opening. n/t

[etherealtruth]

9. OMG ... I don't know what to say ... thank you so much for posting this

[heaven05]

10. EXCELLENT AD!!!!

but very sad. Damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sheshe2]

41. Holy Shit!

[suffragette]

11. Intensely powerful.

[nolabear]

12. Jesus. That was incredible. And sad. And terrifying.

[jodymarie aimee]

13. could you please do a link

so I can send to my group? When I googled it, no video...thanks, this is great.

[LisaM]

16. Here's a link:

http://creativity-online.com/work/sandy-hook-promise-evan/50161

I'm almost afraid to share it because I feel that it might motivate some other Adam Lanza or Dylan Kleebold.

[TreasonousBastard]

14. Yeah. Wow, just wow.

[LisaM]

15. Oh. My. God.

Wow, wow, wow.

Doesn't the Orange Asshole have some Sandy Hook denier on tap for something?

[nbsmom]

22. The one and only Alex Jones

infowars.com

Ugh.

[bdamomma]

17. WOW

speaks volumes. Very well done.

[lunatica]

18. I expect this to go viral

It's a really good ad.

[billh58]

19. Thanks so much

for posting this moving message.

[democrank]

20. K & R

Powerful and thought provoking.

[SticksnStones]

21. Speechless. Powerful.

[Liberal_in_LA]

23. wow.

[JohnnyRingo]

24. What's it about?

I don't want to watch it if it doesn't interest me or if it's graphic.

Your subject line is pure click bait.

[MissB]

37. The short version

Is guy meets girl sort of - in high school. The subtext of the ad isn't something I will spoil. It's incredibly well done.

Edited: no blood or guts. I suppose it's implied but definitely not shown.

[baldguy]

25. "But I need it to protect myself!"

No, no you don't.

[rzemanfl]

27. I am stealing "Trumpist Dumbfuckistan."

We live in a kleptocracy, so tough beans. I will reconsider if you PM me the copyright.

I just had the horrid thought that I live in "Lower Trumpist Dumbfuckistan!" Ick.

[baldguy]

46. Be my guest.

[TygrBright]

26. The saddest, saddest thing about this is...

...the implication that we need to address the issues of young people who are bullied, feeling alienated, isolating themselves in a world of terrible fantasies, and sliding into mental illness...

...because guns.

It wouldn't be quite so sad, if that kind of appeal had actually shown any signs of working in the past ten years.

broken-heartedly,
Bright

[MichMary]

28. Did you read Dylan Klebold's mother's book?

I remember well the Columbine massacre, because my two sons were in high school, and I was very much aware that it could have happened anywhere.

I seriously thought at the time that there was no way that the signs could have been missed, but after reading Sue Klebold's book, I guess I'm not so sure. There were numerous little things, but the parents were rigidly anti-gun, they spent time together as a family, were extremely concerned, etc.

I came away with an entirely different opinion.

[mopinko]

35. teenagers are as opaque as they can make themselves, especially

when they are in pain, and swirling about in rebellion.

i have a daughter that worried me enough. if she had been a son, i would have been frightened, but i would have had no idea what to do. i had no idea as it was.
not sure there is much harder than raising a mentally ill child.
kid is doing fine now, but for a while there, i slept w one eye open.

[MichMary]

42. My heart goes out to any parent in this situation

The mother of a mentally ill son wrote an article after the Newtown tragedy, in which she detailed the lengths she had gone to, trying to get help for a son she truly felt was on the same path as Adam Lanza. Our mental health system is seriously broken, and no one seems to have much idea of how to fix it.

I'm glad your daughter is doing well. Must be a huge relief to you.

[mopinko]

43. it is terrible.

i remember trying to find an adolescent shrink, and having to wait months once i finally see one. god knows they are saints, but there just arent enough of them, even in a metro area like chicago.
still cant believe we made it without having to check in to the er, which was the only way around the wait.

its a special hell, made worse by the fact that this shit runs in families, and i am not the most tightly nailed together person out there.
ex's family is a couple cherries short of a pie, too.

and lordie knows the therapists all still love to bash mom. oy. dear lord was it hard.

[TexasBushwhacker]

54. Here's the article for folks who missed it

"I am Adam Lanza's mother"

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2311009

[uponit7771]

48. With the Klebolds yes... with the Harris's? not so much... the garage was a complete mess and smell

... of gasoline

and this

The papers also further document Eric's now well-known preoccupation with Nazis, Charles Manson and Napalm.

[boston bean]

29. That was frightening.

[trof]

30. k

[NastyRiffraff]

31. I've been trying to analyze the gut-punch I got

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from that ad. I think it's because the ad took me there. It made me actually feel in my very being what students, workers, others, felt when their very ordinary days were interrupted. I felt the gut-wrenching fear, the knowledge that yes, this could be the end of my life, or the lives of people I care about.

Wow.

[ecstatic]

56. My heart dropped! Very effective ad

Almost like that horrible Facebook and driving ad (car crash with mom and her young daughter).

[a kennedy]

32. Now how far can this go???

Should be mandatory watching on ANY device.

[benld74]

33. Geez. One can never know.

[MontanaMama]

34. Took my breath away. This is what happens.

I just had my 11 year old son watch this. He's an observant thoughtful kid. I asked him to keep his eyes open during his day - notice things - and don't blow them off as seeming unimportant.

I took a 50% cut in pay for a job that enables me to be home with my child after school. I sometimes think about the loss in income vs the time with my son. There is no question that being with him to hear about the details of his day and bus trip home are priceless.

I think of the parents who have lost their babies in a senseless school shooting and I have no words. What has happened to us?

[DeadLetterOffice]

36. Dear AGG...

This is very powerful. I understand you probably want the gut-punch effect, and I understand why, but could you put a trigger warning up please? Please.

I am the survivor of a school shooting incident, and this was triggering as all fuck. In a really kind of awful way.
Please.

Thank you,
DLO

[Fast Walker 52]

39. so sorry to hear... I can only imagine what you felt

[Fast Walker 52]

40. so sorry to hear... I can only imagine what you felt

[Fast Walker 52]

38. holy fucking wow

amazing

[JDC]

44. That was really good

[Kablooie]

45. Damn.

[uponit7771]

47. The message here is very very loud and no one raised their voice

[jmg257]

49. VERY well done. Excellent points made. nt

[Lifelong Protester]

50. And I almost passed it by.....

Good ad, very powerful.

[Guilded Lilly]

51. Jaysus.

[DemonGoddess]

52. Holy cow!

[LittleGirl]

53. shared on facebook Thanks eom

[baldguy]

55. Notice the standard cadre of gun humpers have absented themselves from this thread.

[RedWedge]

57. What I got from this ad: It's not just about guns. There are lots of opportunities for intervention

all along the line: better funding for and destigmatization of getting help for mental health; changing the culture of violence through governmental, private and nonprofit work to break the cycle of violence in families; respecting anti-bullying initiatives instead of laughing them off; fixing our child welfare infrastructure; funding education in a way that fewer kids fall through the cracks and they all get the help they need.

[MarianJack]

58. Amazing!

PEACE!

[workinclasszero]

59. Wow

I weep for the children of America growing up in this gun crazed violent country.

[Shoonra]

60. Well I am goddam confused ....

Evidently vandalizing the library table top repeatedly is healthy, and sitting quietly at a computer station, listening to something with headphones, and reading intently is sinister.

What are the chances we're gonna spot the would-be shooter? For all we know, he gets better grades than the bored student who's carving up the table top.

[Are_grits_groceries]

62. FFS!

That's the point. You never know.
You might think the "vandal" would be a potential problem and not the other kid. And grades are not always a sign. There may be other clues if you pay attention.

I taught school. If you pay attention, there are a lot of things going on with kids. A lot are innocuous and some need a little attention. You don't announce it over the intercom but you talk to a counselor or a parent. You ask questions and you point out your observations. You learn to do it in a way that hopefully won't set the parents off. You are not making accusations.

Your attitude and observation is exactly the problem. Impatience and a seeming demand to make everything flash red. Teens and pre-teens are great kids. They are also changing in many ways and it takes a lot for parents to handle that age. More training for teachers and help for parents would be nice.

Anymore helpful observations?

[baldguy]

64. Yes, you are confused. And there's no excuse for it.

The first was trying to make a connection with a fellow human being, the second was dehumanizing & objectifying his fellow human beings, deciding which of those targets he'd kill first.

[spanone]

61. K&R...

[tiredtoo]

63. Watched it twice

And shared it on faceplace

[WiffenPoof]

65. Incredible

Completely moved by this. So well done. Someone understands misdirection to a very effective level.