TW @: Uvalde School Shooting 5/24/22

[maudefindlay]

30th shooting at a K-12 school in 2022. We aren't even fucking halfway thru this year yet.

[redheadk]

May 24, 2022 16:42:29 GMT -5 Gato said:

May 24, 2022 16:41:05 GMT -5 lemoncupcake said:

What exactly do you want Texans to do?

There is blood of little children on these people's hands.  Go out and protest.  Show them they will be held accountable.

Do you think this doesn’t happen already? Texas has a huge and active Moms Demand Action group.

But fuck, nothing changes. It feels hopeless today. My 4th grader caught the news and that was a necessary conversation but a terrible one.

[neverfstop]

May 24, 2022 19:46:17 GMT -5 maudefindlay said:

30th shooting at a K-12 school in 2022. We aren't even fucking halfway thru this year yet.

i saw that stat too and was just shocked....we've only had about 90 school days....so one every 3 days is just a gut punch.

[plutosmoon]

My god, those poor families. I'm heartbroken, again, and nothing changes. I remember Sandy Hook happened the week I went back to work after maternity leave, and now I have a third grader 10 years later and I still have to fear my child getting shot at school, a place that should be safe. No one should have that fear. A 5th grader brought a gun to my DD's school a few weeks ago, apparently it's so commonplace they didn't even bother to notify parents, just had another fucking lockdown drill. Fuck the republicans, fuck it all.

[isabel]

I will forever remember where I was the day of the Sandy Hook shooting. I will forever remember crying as I was driving down the road and pulling over to the side as I listened to the breaking news on NPR.

And somehow we are still here. In this exact same place.

I just don't even know what else to do or say. I donated to Everytown. It feels so worthless. So meaningless. The GOP is truly heinous.

[nsl]

May 24, 2022 20:22:20 GMT -5 isabel said:

I will forever remember where I was the day of the Sandy Hook shooting. I will forever remember crying as I was driving down the road and pulling over to the side as I listened to the breaking news on NPR.

And somehow we are still here. In this exact same place.

I just don't even know what else to do or say. I donated to Everytown. It feels so worthless. So meaningless. The GOP is truly heinous.

A student told me about Sandy Hook. I remember his shock and horror, and also my disbelief that it could be real.

I'm a teacher who doesn't feel safe sending my own kids to their school tomorrow. I'm also a teacher who knows my own classroom literally cannot be secured against gun violence if it happens in my building due to interior window/door placements. I have to sit with that, and teach through that, and try to make my students somehow feel safe through that in... 12 hours.

[sofamonkey]

A friend from my bmb had her son (same age as my oldest) AT Sandy hook that day. It was such a long, emotionally draining day. They were all locked down for so long, and no communication for so damn long. I do not know how or why we keep putting people through this. Or the prep for when this happens.

It’s not a fire drill preparing for an accident. It’s small children preparing for an on purpose.

[curbsideprophet]

Are there things Biden can do by executive order to address things in the short term?

Can he ban AR-15s? Can he raise the legal age to buy a gun to 21?

I have minimal hope for Congress doing anything.

[erbear]

May 24, 2022 20:34:33 GMT -5 nsl said:

May 24, 2022 20:22:20 GMT -5 isabel said:

I will forever remember where I was the day of the Sandy Hook shooting. I will forever remember crying as I was driving down the road and pulling over to the side as I listened to the breaking news on NPR.

And somehow we are still here. In this exact same place.

I just don't even know what else to do or say. I donated to Everytown. It feels so worthless. So meaningless. The GOP is truly heinous.

A student told me about Sandy Hook. I remember his shock and horror, and also my disbelief that it could be real.

I'm a teacher who doesn't feel safe sending my own kids to their school tomorrow. I'm also a teacher who knows my own classroom literally cannot be secured against gun violence if it happens in my building due to interior window/door placements. I have to sit with that, and teach through that, and try to make my students somehow feel safe through that in... 12 hours.

Hugs. Same boat. I don’t even have a plan. My classroom is windows on all sides and a courtyard — where the fuck are we going to go? Fuck.

[TamiTaylor]

May 24, 2022 20:34:33 GMT -5 nsl said:

May 24, 2022 20:22:20 GMT -5 isabel said:

I will forever remember where I was the day of the Sandy Hook shooting. I will forever remember crying as I was driving down the road and pulling over to the side as I listened to the breaking news on NPR.

And somehow we are still here. In this exact same place.

I just don't even know what else to do or say. I donated to Everytown. It feels so worthless. So meaningless. The GOP is truly heinous.

A student told me about Sandy Hook. I remember his shock and horror, and also my disbelief that it could be real.

I'm a teacher who doesn't feel safe sending my own kids to their school tomorrow. I'm also a teacher who knows my own classroom literally cannot be secured against gun violence if it happens in my building due to interior window/door placements. I have to sit with that, and teach through that, and try to make my students somehow feel safe through that in... 12 hours.

So much this.

[redheadk]

I watched Sandy Hook unfold as I nursed my 6 month old and now I've watched Uvalde unfold while trying to explain to my now-4th grader why this happened. I'm just sick.

And I think of the aftermath of Sandy Hook, how some things have changed but really nothing at all. And I think of the hell those families have endured on top of losing their children in a horrific manner, the conspiracy theories and lies. the doxing, and more and I fear for what these Uvalde families will be faced with while grieving for their children because I can't help but think the response from the nuts will be the same. Nothing else has changed.

[1confused1]

This has got to stop. 😭

[sonrisa]

We don't need more gun laws. We need less. Exactly one less. Repeal that fucking Amendment.

[HRH Queen Dick I]

A nation chock full of evangelical Christians try to denigrate pornography when they've got the genuinely filthy fetish in guns.

[HRH Queen Dick I]

May 24, 2022 23:26:38 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

We don't need more gun laws. We need less. Exactly one less. Repeal that fucking Amendment.

This is the only thing that will work but it's not going to happen in our lifetime.

Eta If it ever happened, I just realized it will only work to an extent because there will be an underground network of gun incel freaks desperate to buy their pump action metal dicks.

Maybe in a few generations after permanent repeal of 2A will things be sane.

[seeyalater52]

The world is too fucking much right now. I can’t bear it.

[seeyalater52]

May 24, 2022 20:47:44 GMT -5 curbsideprophet said:

Are there things Biden can do by executive order to address things in the short term?

Can he ban AR-15s? Can he raise the legal age to buy a gun to 21?

I have minimal hope for Congress doing anything.

Legally? Idk. Maybe not. I don’t care though, maybe he should do it anyways. I’ll see you in court. Doing nothing is the wrong answer when the pro gun fascists are willing to go all the way to the mat for their outrageous beliefs.

[HRH Queen Dick I]

Oh and another thing. Patriotism is utter bullshit. Land of the free and home of the brave? No, it's the land of systemic bigotry and the home of gun toting maniacs.

[sonrisa]

May 24, 2022 23:40:07 GMT -5 HRH Queen Dick I said:

Oh and another thing. Patriotism is utter bullshit. Land of the free and home of the brave? No, it's the land of systemic bigotry and the home of gun toting maniacs.

Yes. THIS is "American Exceptionalism"

THIS.

Not whatever other shit people think of when they hear that phrase.

[sonrisa]

May 24, 2022 23:32:04 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

The world is too fucking much right now. I can’t bear it.

In case you mean it, and in case you need to hear it: Yes, this is fucking hard. But you can bear it. For your child. For your family. For yourself. For the world. It's a better place with you in it. 

[basilosaurus]

May 24, 2022 19:46:17 GMT -5 maudefindlay said:

30th shooting at a K-12 school in 2022. We aren't even fucking halfway thru this year yet.

When I saw someone's fb post that said 21, it took me a moment b/c I thought that was the YTD school shootings rather than the updated death toll.

You're telling me it's even worse than that. Fuuuuck.

[basilosaurus]

May 24, 2022 23:40:07 GMT -5 HRH Queen Dick I said:

Oh and another thing. Patriotism is utter bullshit. Land of the free and home of the brave? No, it's the land of systemic bigotry and the home of gun toting maniacs.

And somehow the worst earworm on the planet, Lee Greenwood, gets played in response to all sorts of national tragedies, and my brain is a horrible place to live. I think the worst words in that are "at least" and "proud." 

[dreamcrisp1]

I’m heartbroken and shattered about this. Sandy Hook was so hard to see and I was not a mother then. As a mother to young kids now, I can’t even fathom the utter devastation those poor parents feel right now. To know that they were 2 days away from being done school and they’d be safe at home. School should not be an unsafe place. No parent should have to continuously worry about sending their child to school and it being the last time they see them. That is truly barbaric.

Gun laws and regulations are essential. How does nothing ever change? The US is a horrible, horrible country.

[basilosaurus]

Fucking Dan Patrick saying we can do a lot of things. The only thing he mentions is "harden targets." Only in GQP world would schools, places of worship, grocery stores are "targets." Oh, and that "we're at each others throats." I'll leave you to guess how many times he mentioned guns.

[imimahoney]

19 fucking children. 2 staff.

Amanda Gorman's poem from last night rings true. We let monsters kill children and we let our inhumanity do absolutely nothing to stop it.

[neverfstop]

May 25, 2022 4:56:32 GMT -5 imimahoney said:

19 fucking children. 2 staff.

Amanda Gorman's poem from last night rings true. We let monsters kill children and we let our inhumanity do absolutely nothing to stop it.

Yes I saw that posted frequently last night and it haunts me...

I'm waking up thinking about how to talk to my kids today about this before they got to their next to last day at school.  

I'm really trying to figure out how we got here...is it all the NRA? the 2nd amendment? structural and historical racism and violence? our police state? the toxic mix of Christianity and gun worship?

[maudefindlay]

A friend posted that the only thing that changed since Sandy Hook is that kids are now formally trained to hide, barricade doors, fight or run for their lives. That was the solution. To literally put the responsibility on them to figure it out and wish them luck.

[sent]

Somehow the rest of the world exists without guns. F this particular section of the Constitution.

I’ve had thoughts that we should create a new country for those of us that want to live in an America that makes sense. I don’t know exactly how that’s done but it’s been done before so it’s time. We don’t have to be the “United States” forever.

[eddy]

I am a coward. I don’t even know how to talk to my kids about this.

I am not looking for suggestions BTW. I am just paralyzed with the idea of taking just an ounce of their innocence away.

[carmenere]

May 25, 2022 4:59:55 GMT -5 neverfstop said:

May 25, 2022 4:56:32 GMT -5 imimahoney said:

19 fucking children. 2 staff.

Amanda Gorman's poem from last night rings true. We let monsters kill children and we let our inhumanity do absolutely nothing to stop it.

Yes I saw that posted frequently last night and it haunts me...

I'm waking up thinking about how to talk to my kids today about this before they got to their next to last day at school.  

I'm really trying to figure out how we got here...is it all the NRA? the 2nd amendment? structural and historical racism and violence? our police state? the toxic mix of Christianity and gun worship?

It started with the framers of our Constitution enshrining what seemed like, at the time, the best way for our fledgling nation to protect itself against the possibility of tyranny or invasion. They didn’t have a crystal ball to see that someday a large swath of the population would define “tyranny” as “anything I don’t personally agree with or benefit from.” The power-hungry NRA and politicians and nut jobs like Alex Jones have convinced them that the government is coming to take their guns and enslave them. The framers didn’t foresee that many of these same folks would be involved in an actual insurrection and they certainly didn’t imagine that we would continue to allow children to be murdered again and again. So fuck the “originalist” judges who insist on holding to something that the writers of the second amendment never would have tolerated.

It’s going to take a constitutional amendment to fix this, and IMO that starts with getting the NRA completely out of campaign finance and advertising. And now I’ll get off my soapbox.