Another gunman, another elementary school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The hearings on Uvalde make me want to vomit. These poor kids shot at like it's a warzone. And before someone moans that nothing can be done, a gun control bill has just passed the House would raise the age limit for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle (which the 18 year old Uvalde shooter did legally) and prohibit the sale of ammunition magazines with a capacity of more than 15 rounds (meaning that at least some of these kids would have been alive if we had better gun control policies in place).

An 11-year-old survivor of the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas testified before the House oversight committee on Wednesday, as lawmakers continued to try to reach a compromise on gun control legislation after a series of devastating mass shootings.

The House hearing came two weeks after an 18-year-old opened fire at Robb elementary school, killing 19 children and two teachers, and three weeks after 10 people were killed at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

Miah Cerrillo, a fourth-grader at the Uvalde school, recounted how she watched as her teacher and friends were shot and acted quickly to save herself. Miah covered herself in a friend’s blood and played dead until she was able to reach her teacher’s phone and call police.

Arnulfo Reyes speaks about being wounded and surviving the 24 May 2022 school massacre in Uvalde, Texas.
‘It all happened too fast’: injured Uvalde teacher recounts school shooting
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In her recorded testimony, Miah said she no longer felt safe at school.

“Because I don’t want it to happen again,” she said.

Ok any progress is good but girl read what you just wrote.

Age limits? Ammunition more than 15 rounds banned?

What we need is so much more drastic. We know that shooters can be in their 20s, killing 15 people at a time is too many…

[Anonymous]

Anyone voting Republican is condoning this violence. It’s as simple as that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The hearings on Uvalde make me want to vomit. These poor kids shot at like it's a warzone. And before someone moans that nothing can be done, a gun control bill has just passed the House would raise the age limit for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle (which the 18 year old Uvalde shooter did legally) and prohibit the sale of ammunition magazines with a capacity of more than 15 rounds (meaning that at least some of these kids would have been alive if we had better gun control policies in place).

An 11-year-old survivor of the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas testified before the House oversight committee on Wednesday, as lawmakers continued to try to reach a compromise on gun control legislation after a series of devastating mass shootings.

The House hearing came two weeks after an 18-year-old opened fire at Robb elementary school, killing 19 children and two teachers, and three weeks after 10 people were killed at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

Miah Cerrillo, a fourth-grader at the Uvalde school, recounted how she watched as her teacher and friends were shot and acted quickly to save herself. Miah covered herself in a friend’s blood and played dead until she was able to reach her teacher’s phone and call police.

Arnulfo Reyes speaks about being wounded and surviving the 24 May 2022 school massacre in Uvalde, Texas.
‘It all happened too fast’: injured Uvalde teacher recounts school shooting
Read more
In her recorded testimony, Miah said she no longer felt safe at school.

“Because I don’t want it to happen again,” she said.

Ok any progress is good but girl read what you just wrote.

Age limits? Ammunition more than 15 rounds banned?

What we need is so much more drastic. We know that shooters can be in their 20s, killing 15 people at a time is too many…

Yes exactly, that’s not enough

[Anonymous]

I am on a full blown campaign to convince DH to leave this country and move to Dubai purely for safety reasons. At least I don’t have to be afraid to go see a movie when I’m there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Pay attention to what whispers, and you won’t have to when it starts screaming.”

Written by the mother of Uvalde victim Amerie Jo Garza.

"The chicken soup in her thermos stayed hot all day while her body grew cold.

She never had a chance to eat the baloney and cheese sandwich. I got up 10 minutes early to cut the crust off a sandwich that will never be eaten.

Should I call and cancel her dental appointment next Wednesday? Will the office automatically know?

Should I still take her brother to the appointment since I already took the day off work? Last time Carlos had one cavity and Amerie asked him what having a cavity feels like.

She will never experience having a cavity.

She will never experience having a cavity filled.

The cavities in her body now are from bullets, and they can never be filled.

What if she had asked to use the bathroom in the hall a few minutes prior to the gunman entering the room, locking the door, and slaughtering all inside?

Was she one of the first kids in the room to die or one of the last?

These are the things they don’t tell us.

Which of her friends did she see die before her?

Hannah?
Emily?
Both?

Did their blood and brains splatter across her Girl Scout uniform?

She just earned a Fire Safety patch.

What if it got ruined?

There are no patches for school shootings.

Was she practicing writing GIRAFFE the moment he walked in her classroom, barricaded the door and opened fire?

She keeps forgetting the silent “e” at the end.

We studied this past weekend, and now she doesn’t need to take the spelling test on Friday.

None of them will take the spelling test on Friday.

There will be no spelling test on Friday.

Because there is no one to give it.

And no one to take it.

These are the things I will never know:
I will never know at what age she would have started her period.
I will never know if she had wisdom teeth.
(Or if they would have come in crooked.)
I will never know who she spoke to last. Was it the teacher? Was it her table partner, George? She says George is always talking, even during silent reading.
Did she even scream?

She screamed the lyrics to We Don’t Talk About Bruno at 7:58 AM as she hopped out of my car in the circle drive.

She always sings the Dolores part, her sister sings Mirabel and I’m Bruno.

“And I wanted you to know that your bro loves you so
Let it in, let it out, let it rain, let it snow, let it goooooo……..”

Did the killer ever see Encanto?

Could we have sat in the same row of seats, on the same day, munching popcorn?

What if Amerie brushed past him in the aisle? Did she politely say, “Excuse me,” to the boy who would someday blow her eye sockets apart?

Was he chomping on bubble gum as he destroyed them all?
If so, what flavor?
Cinnamon?
Wintergreen?

Was the radio on as he drove to massacre them? Or did he drive in silence?

Was the sun in his eyes as he got out of the car in the parking lot?

Did his pockets hold sunglasses or just ammunition?

These are the things I will never know.

There is laundry in the dryer that is Amerie’s.

Clothes I never need to fold again.
Clothes that are right now warmer than her body.

How will I ever be able to take them out of the dryer and where will I put them if not back in her dresser?

I can never wash clothes in that dryer again.

It will stand silent; a tomb for her pajamas and knee socks.

Her cousin’s graduation party is next month and I already signed her name in the card. Should I cross it out?

That will be the last card I ever sign her name to.

The dog will live longer than she will.
The dog will be 12 next month and she will be eternally 10.

What will the school do with her backpack?

It was brand new this year and she attached her collection of keychains like cherished trophies to its zipper.

A beaded 4 leaf clover she made on St. Patty’s Day.

A red heart from a Walk-a-Thon.

A neon ice cream cone from her friend’s birthday party.

Now there will be no more keychains to attach.
No more trophies.

Surely they can’t throw it out?

Would they throw them all out?

19 backpacks, full of stickered assignments and rainboots, all taken to the dumpster behind the school?

Is there even a dumpster big enough to contain all that life?

These are the things someone else knows:

The moment the semiautomatic rifle was put into his hands--was “Bring Me a Higher Love” playing in the gun store? “Get off my Cloud” by the Rolling Stones? Maybe it was Elton John’s “Rocket Man.”

Did the Outback Oasis salesperson hesitate as they slid him 375 rounds of ammunition?

not my problem my kids are grown and out of school

Or I don’t have kids, so I don’t have to worry about their skulls getting blown across the naptime mat 

Or fingers crossed there’s a good guy with an equally powerful gun that will stop this gun if needed

Did they sense any danger or were they more focused on picking that morning’s Raisin Bran out of their teeth?

My Nana used to say, “Pay attention to what whispers, and you won’t have to when it starts screaming.”

But now I know there is a more deafening sound than children screaming.

More horrific even, than automatic rifles on a Tuesday morning.

I beg the world:
Pay attention to what’s screaming today, or be forced to endure the silence that follows."

This is so beautiful and moving but unfortunately her mother did not write it.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was interesting to listen to The Daily's republish of their 2018 interview with a CA psychiatrist who talked about how most violence and specifically mass violence is perpetrated by men who are not diagnostically mentally ill. She caveated this by explaining that it gets into the semantics of the issue, but that the profile is usually an angry young man who has been socially isolated, bullied, has revenge fantasies and access to guns and unless we expand our definition of 'mental illness' to include those characteristics we are not going to prevent mass shootings. It made me think about how so much of the discussion is how the shooters are crazy monsters should rot in hell (it's my reaction too). Yes, my priority is keeping my children safe and I'm sick and horrified and want all the gun control changes too. But there is so little focus on the most difficult part to look in the eye: how do you prevent an innocent child - which all of these perpetrators were at one point - from turning into a school shooter in the first place? If you have a psychiatrist saying it is NOT diagnosable mental illness but rather the result of years of social isolation, bullying, anger, entitlement...how do we even begin to fix that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The hearings on Uvalde make me want to vomit. These poor kids shot at like it's a warzone. And before someone moans that nothing can be done, a gun control bill has just passed the House would raise the age limit for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle (which the 18 year old Uvalde shooter did legally) and prohibit the sale of ammunition magazines with a capacity of more than 15 rounds (meaning that at least some of these kids would have been alive if we had better gun control policies in place).

An 11-year-old survivor of the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas testified before the House oversight committee on Wednesday, as lawmakers continued to try to reach a compromise on gun control legislation after a series of devastating mass shootings.

The House hearing came two weeks after an 18-year-old opened fire at Robb elementary school, killing 19 children and two teachers, and three weeks after 10 people were killed at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

Miah Cerrillo, a fourth-grader at the Uvalde school, recounted how she watched as her teacher and friends were shot and acted quickly to save herself. Miah covered herself in a friend’s blood and played dead until she was able to reach her teacher’s phone and call police.

Arnulfo Reyes speaks about being wounded and surviving the 24 May 2022 school massacre in Uvalde, Texas.
‘It all happened too fast’: injured Uvalde teacher recounts school shooting
Read more
In her recorded testimony, Miah said she no longer felt safe at school.

“Because I don’t want it to happen again,” she said.

Ok any progress is good but girl read what you just wrote.

Age limits? Ammunition more than 15 rounds banned?

What we need is so much more drastic. We know that shooters can be in their 20s, killing 15 people at a time is too many…

Yes exactly, that’s not enough

Agree What is on the table is not enough

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am on a full blown campaign to convince DH to leave this country and move to Dubai purely for safety reasons. At least I don’t have to be afraid to go see a movie when I’m there.

Are you Emirati? If not then yes you do have to constantly worry about security.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am on a full blown campaign to convince DH to leave this country and move to Dubai purely for safety reasons. At least I don’t have to be afraid to go see a movie when I’m there.

Are you Emirati? If not then yes you do have to constantly worry about security.

I mean gun violence wouldn’t have to be on the list but you’d be trading it for a whole separate list of problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am on a full blown campaign to convince DH to leave this country and move to Dubai purely for safety reasons. At least I don’t have to be afraid to go see a movie when I’m there.

UAE. Beacon of democracy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was interesting to listen to The Daily's republish of their 2018 interview with a CA psychiatrist who talked about how most violence and specifically mass violence is perpetrated by men who are not diagnostically mentally ill. She caveated this by explaining that it gets into the semantics of the issue, but that the profile is usually an angry young man who has been socially isolated, bullied, has revenge fantasies and access to guns and unless we expand our definition of 'mental illness' to include those characteristics we are not going to prevent mass shootings. It made me think about how so much of the discussion is how the shooters are crazy monsters should rot in hell (it's my reaction too). Yes, my priority is keeping my children safe and I'm sick and horrified and want all the gun control changes too. But there is so little focus on the most difficult part to look in the eye: how do you prevent an innocent child - which all of these perpetrators were at one point - from turning into a school shooter in the first place? If you have a psychiatrist saying it is NOT diagnosable mental illness but rather the result of years of social isolation, bullying, anger, entitlement...how do we even begin to fix that?

One way to start is to prevent them from easy access to weapons of mass killing.

[Anonymous]

Vote Republicans in any race at midterms idiots

Vote Republican ever again 78 minutes children slaughtered don’t call yourself human

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vote Republicans in any race at midterms idiots

Vote Republican ever again 78 minutes children slaughtered don’t call yourself human

Sorry but this is confusing. I think you should be saying do not vote Republican. Republicans are married to the voters who are adamant about their guns

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am on a full blown campaign to convince DH to leave this country and move to Dubai purely for safety reasons. At least I don’t have to be afraid to go see a movie when I’m there.

Are you Emirati? If not then yes you do have to constantly worry about security.

You obviously don't know that much about the UAE. While the UAE is very good for gender equality compared to other third world nations, compared to first world nations, the UAE is not very good at gender equality. Only about 20% of women in the UAE actually work and it is still common for women to be discouraged from working. Women are treated unequally in the work place, do not get paid on the same scale as men and are not accorded equal respect in the workplace. If you think that the current SCOTUS is turning US women into second class citizens, the you really don't want to go to the UAE because even after SCOTUS is done shredding gender equality in the US, we will still be far ahead of where the UAE is.

UAE law also treats women unequally. Do you realize that if someone protests a married woman working, that a judge can bar a married woman from working outside the house? Do you understand that it's only been 5 years since UAE law removed clauses that allowed husbands to beat their wives in the house? Do you realized that it's only been 3 years since the law removed the requirement for women to be courteously obedient to their husbands? There are still many laws on the books that say that you must have a male, either your husband or a male family member agree to allow you to do certain things under the law. If you want personal autonomy, you don't want to go to the Arab world because you won't have it.

You are very naive if you think that as a woman, you will be safer in the Arab world than you are in the United States.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was interesting to listen to The Daily's republish of their 2018 interview with a CA psychiatrist who talked about how most violence and specifically mass violence is perpetrated by men who are not diagnostically mentally ill. She caveated this by explaining that it gets into the semantics of the issue, but that the profile is usually an angry young man who has been socially isolated, bullied, has revenge fantasies and access to guns and unless we expand our definition of 'mental illness' to include those characteristics we are not going to prevent mass shootings. It made me think about how so much of the discussion is how the shooters are crazy monsters should rot in hell (it's my reaction too). Yes, my priority is keeping my children safe and I'm sick and horrified and want all the gun control changes too. But there is so little focus on the most difficult part to look in the eye: how do you prevent an innocent child - which all of these perpetrators were at one point - from turning into a school shooter in the first place? If you have a psychiatrist saying it is NOT diagnosable mental illness but rather the result of years of social isolation, bullying, anger, entitlement...how do we even begin to fix that?

One way to start is to prevent them from easy access to weapons of mass killing.

You seem to have no clue how many guns are on American streets.