Tragedy.
staxwell
Just sad.
When will it end?
What kind of effects might something like this have on these kids in the future?
Is this really just gonna keep happening?
It's hard to watch this stuff, but as a 24 year old who plans to have kids in the future, this is something I have to think about. I don't want my kids to be sheltered, but this is the kind of stuff I'll have to be worried about sending them out into the world.
For those of you who have kids, or have adult children: was something like this ever a worry for you? If so, how did you deal with it? I remember seeing a story on John Walsh, where they talked about what happened to his son. For the guys who lived through that period: how did that effect you, if it did at all?
This is all crazy, man. I don't know. Just...I don't know.
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The gun industry will lay low for awhile. But when somebody attacks them about how they can produce mountains of firearms, they will play the victim and then scold their adversary for denigrating the lives of all the innocent victims in CT. It is all so old, old, old. The NRA has been proud of their record of stealthily knocking off any political opponents and they actively cultivate a reputation of power that is above and beyond their real numbers. They have even talked about leaving their political opponents dead in the grass in the middle of the night. I guess they fancy themselves as political ninjas.
In some ways I think the media attention we give these attacks is one of the worst problems.
There are a lot of terrifying things in this world and I suspect if I ever have kids I'll find some new terrible ideas. But you can't let those thoughts dictate your life, because that would be an even more miserable existence.
I completely agree with your last though also, this is all crazy.
My oldest is 12 Stax and my youngest will be born soon.....its a worry but most school.have police in my location now so its a cumfurt........
@mikeya, that's something that might be worth thinking about, at this point.
@looney, that's how it usually goes.
@jester, before the Colombine shootings, something like that happening had never crossed my mind. I was in junior high and it was never even a thought for me. For this group of kindergarteners and other young kids this is now their reality. I'm just sad for them.
@juice, I definitely agree with that. And congrats on the baby, man.
It's always especially tough when you think about who those kids might have grown up to be if they had lived and had normal lives. Like, how do you know you didn't just kill a great inventor or a pioneer in science or an incredible artist? I take it especially hard when children and young teens get killed or lose their lives this way for that specific reason - there's so much potential. Not that it's more tragic than an adult getting killed, but come on these kids have barely even gotten to see the world and they have it ripped from them. It's not fair.
Without getting overly political about the topic (this is not the time nor the place imo), I definitely think gun laws need to be addressed.
One thing that I have noticed is that all of these school shootings seem to occur in public schools. My oldest child already goes to a private school, but this just furthers my resolve to keep all of my children in private schools, which don't seem to have the social problems (kids from broken homes, behavioral problems) that inevitably exist in schools that have to take all comers.
Fuck.
But anyway, I do agree that private schools are not immune to this problem.
Ok, I'll throw it out - have there been any shootings at private schools?