School’s back kiddos, time to kevlar up!
I hate how desensitized I am to these things. The thing that surprised me most in the coverage is that they went back to school on Aug 1st
they went back to school on Aug 1st
When I was working at a 7-11 a decade ago a friend of mine was killed in a murder suicide by her ex and they had the store open again within an hour of the crime scene cleanup crew leaving and all my boss told me was “you can take tomorrow off if you need to”.
mfer died of a heart attack a few years ago and I fuckin hope it was the longest most excruciating heart attack death on record.
I remember when Columbine was still the shooting, and basically the only major one for nearly a decade until the Virginia Tech one, then Sandy Hook…then the dam burst
then Sandy Hook
I’m not trying to be weird or sound weird about it, but when the blood of white children can’t tip the scales against the gold of the gun lobby, it’s over. Roll credits.
It’s so frustrating that we have done zero things other than give more cops more resources. That’s been our only thing we have done to protect kids and teachers. I hate it so much. It sucks so much such vulnerable group is just left to without protection in any sense of the world. We done nothing socially, infrastructure-ly, poltically, any other -ally i can think of other than give cops more money. I hate it.
It’s so frustrating that we have done zero things other than give more cops more resources.
Here’s a little secret, both parties were going to give them record funding year after year regardless! And look how well that’s turned out, we still have school shootings but the cops are too busy shooting black teenagers in the back.
when the blood of white children can’t tip the scales against the gold of the gun lobby, it’s over. Roll credits.
Those white children were not part of rich and influential families. The scales will be pushed off the cliffs if these things started happening in the idyllic neighborhoods. Nothing is ever done because those who have the power to do something have nothing to fear.
I hate how desensitized I am to these things.
I hate how much my brain just ticks this as “this is just a thing now, don’t think about it much man”. It’s not a just a desensitization to me, I’m mad that it’s “normalized” to me. These kids, teachers, and staff should never EVER have to even think about this sort of thing. School is hard enough without the looming threat of real mortal death.
There was a school shooting near where I live and it didn’t even make the news, it was just an email to the parents of the district.
I wonder if there’s been an academic study of how covid changed what’s considered “newsworthy” by network news. For example imagine a pre-covid situation where X is the minimum number of people to be killed in a random mass shooting so it’s broadcast live on MSNBC. And X is ~3 or whatever. Is that still the case now that the public thinks covid is over and they’re massively desensitized to death?
Is X the same or larger? My wild hunch is X is larger now.
So good to be back to normal after a summer spent funding school bombings
In communist north korea the people are so abused and powerless they take out violent revenge on school children
I am at the point where I read these headlines and feel absolutely nothing
i was there but now i am a parent so i hope they solve school shootings within 12 years
The sooner you abobdon that hope the less dissappointed you will be - parent who dropped their third grader off for the first time this morning
Best you can hope for is you get the dumbest cop in the county and hope it’s not your daughter they try to pursue a relationship with
I don’t know why but I feel like I care more and more about each one that happens
I used to not really gaf but reality is setting in that this is a real thing, that the kids are not alright
Yea people love to talk shit about the youngest generation but they’re unironically more heroic than your average Vietnam vet just for being willing to go to school everyday and be willing sacrifices to America’s gun culture.
If my daughter told me she wasn’t fucking going to school because nobody was doing anything to prevent her from being target practice I’d have a hard time coming up with a rebuttal.
