Your friend. Speaking of firing an AR-15 the first time. “You’ll become immediately addicted to the incredible power it gives you.” That’s where the Second Amendment has led us. Acquisition of personal power through the thrill of shooting a weapon designed for military use but now unleashed upon children.
There was a time, for many year…
Your friend. Speaking of firing an AR-15 the first time. “You’ll become immediately addicted to the incredible power it gives you.” That’s where the Second Amendment has led us. Acquisition of personal power through the thrill of shooting a weapon designed for military use but now unleashed upon children.
There was a time, for many years, that I felt safe every day in a classroom. The drills we practiced were training for the event of a fire and getting away from that threat to safety. And then that changed. But there isn’t an emergency drill training that children can practice or the presence of resource officers at school that allowed nineteen kids to get away from the bullets that seared and ravaged their bodies as a shooter felt the addictive power of an AR-15 in his hands yesterday. Little bodies that required DNA testing for identification instead of their lunch pass used to get their tray in the cafeteria. Their teachers dead while trying to get them away or shield them from the bullets. I guess it’s the luck of the “draw” that teachers now hold onto in hoping it will keep their school building, their site, out of a killer’s gun site.
Rage. Rage against rage. More rage.
Will it be different “this time”? That the question is even asked gives us the answer. That a President who speaks to a nation last night spoke to parents 10 yrs ago as Vice President about losing a child to gun violence while in school. There is your answer.
I loathe those that bend the knee to the NRA. Think they will cancel their convention this weekend?
Terminal.
Steve Kerr set things right. “I’ve had enough.” And then walked out.
I totally agree with your post, Christine. I throat just closed up in grief reading about the little bodies. Forty-four years ago I taught first and second graders in a small NC city. My students were this same age! The old school was built in wings with covered walkways. The locks on one of my doors could easily have been kicked in. I did not even have a closet to hide my kids in! But that was before school massacres.
The Republican cult has the blood of so many innocents on its hands. My God!!! These are the people who vote against feeding babies and protecting children!!!! I have voted against their sorry asses since I could vote! This country is becoming more barbaric by the minute.
Thank you, TC, for calling this horror what it is- a massacre. Mass shooting is a sterilized euphemism.
Your friend. Speaking of firing an AR-15 the first time. “You’ll become immediately addicted to the incredible power it gives you.” That’s where the Second Amendment has led us. Acquisition of personal power through the thrill of shooting a weapon designed for military use but now unleashed upon children.
There was a time, for many years, that I felt safe every day in a classroom. The drills we practiced were training for the event of a fire and getting away from that threat to safety. And then that changed. But there isn’t an emergency drill training that children can practice or the presence of resource officers at school that allowed nineteen kids to get away from the bullets that seared and ravaged their bodies as a shooter felt the addictive power of an AR-15 in his hands yesterday. Little bodies that required DNA testing for identification instead of their lunch pass used to get their tray in the cafeteria. Their teachers dead while trying to get them away or shield them from the bullets. I guess it’s the luck of the “draw” that teachers now hold onto in hoping it will keep their school building, their site, out of a killer’s gun site.
Rage. Rage against rage. More rage.
Will it be different “this time”? That the question is even asked gives us the answer. That a President who speaks to a nation last night spoke to parents 10 yrs ago as Vice President about losing a child to gun violence while in school. There is your answer.
I loathe those that bend the knee to the NRA. Think they will cancel their convention this weekend?
Terminal.
Steve Kerr set things right. “I’ve had enough.” And then walked out.
I totally agree with your post, Christine. I throat just closed up in grief reading about the little bodies. Forty-four years ago I taught first and second graders in a small NC city. My students were this same age! The old school was built in wings with covered walkways. The locks on one of my doors could easily have been kicked in. I did not even have a closet to hide my kids in! But that was before school massacres.
The Republican cult has the blood of so many innocents on its hands. My God!!! These are the people who vote against feeding babies and protecting children!!!! I have voted against their sorry asses since I could vote! This country is becoming more barbaric by the minute.
Thank you, TC, for calling this horror what it is- a massacre. Mass shooting is a sterilized euphemism.