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Re:People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting – Before It... by keanb on Sunday September 28, 2025 @06:10PM (#45408551)
> The funny outcome of this is that I realized I should've just beat him back, I would've faced no penalty because he wouldn't have reported it and he would've realized I wasn't a target.

Consider that this is what they actually wanted you to do. They are a school and wanted to teach you to deal with the problems in your life yourself. In other words, they were trying to teach you to be an adult.

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Re:People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting – Before It... by ocdtrekkie on Sunday September 28, 2025 @07:54PM (#45409124)
Adults don't resolve conflicts by beating each other up. If this was your school's lesson, I'm sorry.
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Re:People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting – Before It... by dzhiurgis on Monday September 29, 2025 @12:01AM (#45410228)
Majority of this site support antifa so idk if thats entirely true
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Re:People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting – Before It... by AtlasBarfed on Sunday September 28, 2025 @11:53PM (#45410193)
If you are being threatened physically and violently as an adult, to the point you fear for your life, then.... you go to "authorities".

If the "authorities" don't take it seriously, you have to "protect yourself".

If the threat is by a larger/stronger person or people, you even the odds with....

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Re:People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting – Before It... by dolebirchwood on Sunday September 28, 2025 @11:58PM (#45410217)
Anyone with that mindset shouldn't be working anywhere near children.
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Re:People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting – Before It... by mothballed on Monday September 29, 2025 @01:02AM (#45410467)
Not inviting the man in your life is an important lesson. Not the way I'd teach it, but they may have saved him a lot of jailtime or other issues teaching it to him early.
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