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Tag: school shootings
my parents won’t let me go to the march for our lives because they don’t think it’s safe and I could almost laugh at the hypocrisy. you don’t think it’s safe for me to go to a protest, where there are hundreds and thousands of people gathering together for the same purpose–protecting the lives of students–but you’re okay with sending me to school every day knowing that the hug you give me each morning might be my last? assuming I ever have children, what am I going to tell them when they ask me about living in trump country? that I stood by and watched while millions of my peers took action? is that how you would want to be remembered?
You’re young enough to have to ask to go to this march, it is likely that your parents are concerned for your safety because protests are not known for being safe – That’s what makes them effective. It is not out of this world to imagine that their parents are going to have a hard time letting their children take part in an event that is never going to be able to guarantee the safety of their children.
Ironically enough, this “march for our lives” thing is not advocating for any added security to schools to help keep children safe, but instead is going to advocate for some sort of gun reform without knowing the current laws already in place. Their whole idea is that more laws will solve a criminal problem, and that is quite laughable.
I mean gun control legislation has been proven effective in multiple countries including Australia and you’re old enough to have completely lost touch with the generation that’s still going to secondary school but go off I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯
“I mean gun control legislation has been proven effective in multiple countries including Australia”
Yeah I’m aware of this argument, I live in a country that people like to constantly use as an example of successful gun control. Do you want me to explain how using our countries to push your narrative is not a good idea? Shall I begin with Australia or my own country?
“and you’re old enough to have completely lost touch with the generation that’s still going to secondary school but go off I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯”
What’s your point here? How does the current generation in school differ from previous generations? And what does my age have to do with anything?
@excalibelle get a load of this one
ohhmygod. notice how theyre now calling us the “school shooting generation?” THAT’S what makes us different. Idk you age but going off this post you probably finished school or nearly had by the time school shootings like columbine started happening, and definitely had by the time they became commonplace? You never went to school wondering if you’d ever see home again because your classmate might shoot you. You probably never jumped at the sound of a slamming locker because for a brief moment you thought it was gunfire. You never had to worry if it’d happen at your school or seriously consider what you’d do if it did. You probably didn’t do drills at age 7 for what to do if s shooter entered your school like I did. For you it was a distant and unrealistic possibility you never gave weight to. For us its our every day lives. Now recently out of high school, i see names of local schools or cities trending on Twitter and my heart thumps because oh god what if its trending because there was a shooting at this school with people i know (and yes that’s actually happened to me at least half a dozen times in about the two or so years I’ve had a twitter account). I went into a local college recently, just after Parkland, to take my GED, and spent time planning what I’d do if a shooter came in, where to hide, how to fight back if necessary, how to protect others, how and where to escape.
Your generation worried about normal teenage things like grades and crushes and popularity and what to eat for lunch. Your generation worried about surviving a school day socially.
My generation worried about LITERALLY surviving a school day.
And yeah, statistically it wasnt likely to ever happen to me or anyone i knew, although i do know at least two people who knew people in campus shooter lockdowns recently. One happened at the school where my sister works and i was frantically trying to make sure she’d already left for the day and wasn’t involved (luckily she had, and the situation was also resolved with no one injured, but nonetheless). It’s in my own state where recently a kid raised an isis flag and took a bomb to school, and again luckily was caught and no one was hurt.
This shit is our daily realities while for you it was a news story that you hardly thought of again and never dreamt it’d ever come anywhere close to home.
So yeah, your age fucking matters. If you graduated before 2010 i dont think you can really pretend to understand this like we do. You have memories of news stories while we have lived experience. Experience had as CHILDREN.
And dont give me shit about “looolz i live in Australia and it sucks here too :(” because ive done the research and the math and Australia’s murder rate is like 4-5x lower than America’s. This isnt gun murders, this is all murders. You guys haven’t had one single mass shooting since the nineties. We have a couple a week. So fuck off with your “its not as good here as you think :(” bullshit.
you know what no I’m fucking tagging you @pro-rubik and yeah i know i typed a lot but you fucking asked so read it and shut up.
I’d love to see the mental gymnastics needed to try and explain away the fact that countries with effective gun control only have maybe one or two mass shootings per year that usually only involve a couple people while in the U.S. we have those kinds of mass shootings literally every goddamn day with extra horrific ones popping up at least every couple months.
i was gonna make a post like “hey remember when school shootings didn’t happen every five minutes” but then i remembered that im 19 and while this level of frequency is new i still don’t remember more than a month going by without one happening so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
do you not understand this. what do you not understand about the reality of school shootings in america. this is what you’re joking about.
like there was a kid arrested at my high school the year after i left cause he brought a gun.
my little sister’s school was closed for two days due to bomb threats.
i remember at least twice we had lockdown drills and the teachers didn’t know it was a drill and so for god knows how long me and a room full of other kids sat in the dark in complete silence hoping we weren’t about to get shot to death. kids prayed. i prayed. i didn’t believe in anything at that point in time but i closed my eyes and i prayed to anything that might be listening that i wasn’t about to get shot.
i remember my fifth grade science teacher standing by the door during a lockdown with a microscope in her hand because the door had no lock and she needed to be ready to hit someone if they came through the door with a gun.
i remember feeling sick every time i saw someone at school i didn’t recognize. i remember feeling sick every time i saw someone reaching into a jacket or a backpack. i remember hearing someone drop a book and thinking ‘this is it, this is when it’s finally gonna happen’. i remember a girl in my eighth grade class whose cousin died in the county over. i remember memorizing the layout of every one of my classrooms trying to calculate, when i finished my work early, where would be the safest place to hide.
i remember countless dreams, ever since i was little, where i was running through the halls of my school with someone chasing me with a gun, someone else outside picking off students as they left the building trying to get to safety.
i remember being in the airport when i found out about the shooting at sandy hook elementary school. i remember feeling my whole body go numb. i remember people around me at the gate crying and shaking and looking terrified.
i remember drawing up pros and cons for leaving traditional school and going into online school and right at the top of the pros list was ‘nobody can shoot me through a computer’.
i wasn’t your average kid i guess, i was a fucked up wreck already, i’ve had an anxiety disorder on a ride along probably since forever, but that was my reality.
kindergarten through senior year of high school. this is what going to school was like for me in america, after columbine, after virginia tech, after sandy hook. after every other shooting i can’t remember because there’s been so fucking many of them.
this is what you’re joking about. this is what you’re using to make yourself feel superior to americans when you make some sort of ‘hah gotcha’ joke about the school shooting crisis here.
#i was scared to death every time i walked into the building #there were some days when i laid in bed and cried before i got up because i didn’t want to go to school and get shot #this was in MIDDLE SCHOOL #i was maybe TWELVE
time for a reblog of this because MORE fucking smug europeans are making superior fucking jokes about american school shootings as if that’s some sort of goddamn gotcha comment you can make and not turning a joke out of slaughtered children.
I’ve since dropped out of school for unrelated reasons, but I remember when I stopped talking to this one guy because he kept wasting my time, and for weeks I kept watching my back, avoiding my normal routes around school because I knew that if he decided to get a gun, I’d be the first one he shot and I wouldn’t have any warning.
this wasn’t me being overly anxious or anything, just the knowledge every American who goes to school has that if you piss off the wrong person, you and who knows how many of your classmates could get shot to death.
so.. y’know, if non-USAmericans could quit making fun of our constantly living under the threat of the violent death of /children/, that’d be appreciated.
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