https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/30/us/michigan-oxford-high-school-incident/index.html
Hey how you doin' American youth little buddy?
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in 9th grade we had a realistic lockdown drill where cops would bang on the door and fire blanks, that was some really scary shit that pissed me off after finding out it was all fake
it never ceases to amaze me that some fucking pig piece of shit thinks this is a good idea
edit: and I live in a country that has MUCH more gun violence than the US, and I'm pretty sure EVEN OUR FUCKING VIOLENT-ASS COPS would go "holy shit, that's way out of line"
Multiple bomb threats and a gun scare or two in my isolated rural neck of the woods all within few years of each other. Its like people suddenly realized they could do shit out of nowhere. Seems like its possible everywhere if it can happen in a place like this.
Because the number of dead is so low it probably won't be in the news cycle very long. That's how sick this place is.
There've been numerous shootings at vigils for previous shooting victims, in the same place and sometimes on the Same. Fucking. Day.
I'm actually speechless, death to this awful diseased country :amerikkka:
I feel like at this point there needs to be a new word for when you've reiterated the point that something, a person, place or thing is completely fucked yet it just bears saying again, even though their is a tacit agreement that it is indeed fucked.
I was pretty miserable as a teenager but I feel like someone HAS to realize how fucked things are for young people these days that they go get a gun and just start unloading into their classmates. Is there just no one who wants to take responsibility for society failing people like this?
Is there just no one who wants to take responsibility for society failing people like this?
No, there isn't. In America "there is no such thing as society" is true
If you want some interesting insight into the mind of a young spree killer look up Randy Stair. He wanted to shoot up his school but ended up choosing his workplace instead. The tl;dr in my opinion is neoliberal late capitalism turning people lose. Young people are staring down the barrel of income inequality that surpasses the gilded age, in a crumbling hollowed empire, with older generations who simply do not care, and the looming threat of climate apocalypse always present in the air.
I'm using he as his pronouns because I don't think he ever stated what his preferred were. Someone can correct me on that?
No no no it isn't that
capitalismsociety hasnt failed the people, its the individual who has failed society! It was the school shooter's personal responsibility to not have a mental breakdown under whatever combination of economic violence, physical/mental abuse, apathy, and stress, using a firearm that was somehow easily accessible to a minor. See, the system worked fairly well in removing the bad apples! Sure its horrible a few children died but hey, that's life amirite?--rich neoliberals
Is there just no one who wants to take responsibility for society failing people like this?
We just need to make sure people have access to therapy and that we center mental health in all discussions. #PrayFor
School shootings just the worst. I know the Onion headline '‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens' is the go-to joke, but fuckin' hell these kids should never have to go through this. Black kids, white kids, rich kids, poor kids, should just have the chance to be kids. You shouldn't have to deal with this level of trauma as a kid.
No doubt there are a ton of cool leftist things we need to do in society to fix this shit, but it's deeply fucked up that this is "normal" now.
I'm still blown away that gaff didn't get just utterly delete his campaign.
Reminds me of the preschoolers in Mexico who had a drawing assignment and they drew a bunch of dead bodies and gore and shit but like the 5 year old version so just incredibly crude
I think it's made weird in the US because everyone in Mexico knows things are fucked and wishes they could change it but the powers that be are just too strong, but the USA still presents itself as having the veneer of safety and stability when it's clear that it has serious social problems. Most people don't even acknowledge that it's a problem that kids are dying in school shootings, and some people even seem to be OK with it in the name of "liberty".
everyone in Mexico knows things are fucked and wishes they could change it but the powers that be are just too strong
The US is similar here, except one of the powers that be is the US news and entertainment industry, which keeps insisting everything is fine, and does it so loudly that it gaslights people into acting like they are.
They arrested the fucker.
How the fuck doo police only manage to take active shooters alive?
Where are those people who defend cops by saying that they had to shoot the black teenager because he might be armed and they were scared for their lives? Not here, I know, but they're awfully quiet when the cops find the courage not to murder someone.
Remember how after Christchurch NZ immediately restricted semiauto rifles and magazines with over 10 rounds of capacity? Yeah
Forget who said this but Sandy Hook was not the beginning of a national conversation on gun control, it was the end of it. Once America decided that killing children was okay, that was really it.
Aus also got rid of all their guns after a school shooting in like the 70s or something.
Free yourself from the delusion that the democrats give a shit about you or anyone but themselves. They're working together with the republicans, all the conflict between the two parties is Kabuki theater
I was just thinking "I haven't heard about a mass shooting in a while and, knowing my luck, that means there's about to be one"
Ever since I was a child in 3rd grade I've been genuinely terrified of the possibility of my mother being caught in a school shooting. She works as a teacher and especially when I was younger when the flow of information wasn't as good, whenever she was somewhat late coming home I'd get increasingly worried that something happened. I still fear it, there was an incident at a high school in her district where a kid brought a gun to school and the entire school was evacuated as a result. I wasn't quite old enough to understand Columbine when it happened, but my older cousins told me all about it a year later and ever since that point there's been this worry. In my lifetime this unimaginable tragedy that dominates headlines ends up becoming so normalized that I feel nothing when hearing about it. After Sandy Hook, she told me that if she was in that situation she probably would probably end up taking a bullet for her students and as bad as I feel about it I honestly would rather her come home intact and let what happens, happen. I don't even know at this point, the only step we have left at this point is someone shooting up a NICU and only aiming at the babies, everything else seems to have happened and nobody seems to care and yet we're all increasingly left to be more terrified of going outside. Alienation begets alienation and goddamn I hate it.
