r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/americanblowfly • 6h ago
r/All His name was Rhoam Summer. He should be alive.
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u/americanblowfly 6h ago
Three parents dropped their kids off at school yesterday not knowing it would be the last time they would see them. My heart breaks into a million pieces for them. As a father, I’m terrified to send my kids to school knowing that this could happen anywhere. This needs to stop.
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u/MudLOA 5h ago
Sandy Hook couldn’t bring this country together. We’re a shameful country.
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u/dismayhurta 4h ago
Sandy Hook was when I knew 100% that we were a country of piles of shit.
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u/MitaJoey20 4h ago
That was it for me as well. Any school shooting is horrible, but there is something about elementary school kids, practically babies, being victims that should have been the final straw. And yet, here we are…again. Wondering which school is next. I can’t imagine being a parent today, sending your kids to school every day. Schools are banning phones on campus. What happens if they need to call for help, or send a message to their parents in the event something like this happens?
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u/mosnil 2h ago
ours is a culture of death. if sandy hook didn't change things we all made a decision that we do not value life.
we'll have our little moment of pretend sadness with thoughts and prayers and how could this happen and we'll go right on with the same shit. nothing is too far because life is not valued in this country
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u/No-Succotash-14 2h ago
Uvalde as well. Too many.
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u/CDBSB 2h ago
Uvalde happened on my birthday and I think about way more than I want to. The story of the little girl who had to be identified by her shoes because her body was torn apart by the bullets absolutely destroyed me.
And we have collectively done nothing to fix it.
We're so cooked as a species.
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u/TheHrethgir 1h ago
This one was even worse because the police showed up and then proceeded to do nothing but listen to gunshots until it was far too late.
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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 5h ago
I once had a conversation with someone about guns and I was like, Well, we don't want people who abuse their spouses to have guns and they were like nope, it's in the Constitution, they can have them and it's like a lot of these people just aren't rational humans.
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u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor 4h ago
Those people tend to be less obstinate about other parts of the constitution.
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u/nikolapc 3h ago
Serbs love their guns as much as Americans, but when a school shooting happened in an elementary school, they gave up a ton of them en masse. The whole country was shaken, still is, and not just the country but the whole region.
Not to mention, mass shootings are not a regular occurrence in the region, this school shooting was the first in living memory.
As always it's not guns that are the real problem, although having a lot of them readily available does not help.
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u/erizzluh 3h ago
if anything the right used it to further divide the country with all the "obama and the libs want to take away your guns" or the sandy hook was some sort of conspiracy propaganda. i knew plenty of "normal" gun people who tried to tell me sandy hook was staged. they weren't alex jones level conspiracy theorists. they were just people who loved guns so much it was convenient for them to believe the conspiracies.
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u/ObnoxiousAlbatross 2h ago
I do want to take their guns. I revel that it keeps those braindead pussies up at night.
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u/New-Source5884 2h ago
A school full of dead 7 year olds…and Republicans voted down the assault weapon bill. Gleefully.
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u/Ok-Stress-3570 5h ago
I can’t imagine being a parent right now. I have nieces/nephews that I feel the same about - but as a parent? The worry must be awful.
And then when this happens… 🤢
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u/SookHe 4h ago
I worked night shift with a real preachy right wing libertarian who would spend the whole 12 hour night shift just rambling on with the arrogance of someone who had never a reason to doubt his own opinion
This was back when the Sandy Hook shooting had just happened and I must have mumbled something along the lines of how the government should do something.
I ended up with a one-sided hour long speech from him just regurgitating all the hot right wing bullshit talking points, most of which I spent wishing i had a gun so I could shoot myself with and end my torment.
After he finally stopped talking he had his usual shit eating grin he always had when he thought he won his imaginary arguments.
I just looked at him and said “that is the absolute dumbest shit I’ve ever heard.” I just turned around at my desk and went back to work.
I didn’t make any arguments, I didn’t have any sort of clever speech.
I didn’t need too. But that smirk dropping off his face made my fucking day.As a bonus, he never brought politics up again.
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u/idapitbwidiuatabip 5h ago
Universal basic income, universal healthcare, free public colleges & trade schools, etc would do the most to prevent shootings and violence in general.
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u/LionBirb 4h ago
"its not the guns, its a mental health problem"
"then lets get universal mental health care"
"no, thats socialism!"they will object to any solution, honestly seems like they just want to ignore it and pretend everything is fine…
edit: I forgot, their idea is to arm the teachers… ugh
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u/Fish-x-5 5h ago
Our kids are grown, but every adult in the family works in a school. We never get to outgrow it.
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u/carolineecouture 4h ago
Right, I come from a family of teachers. I know if something like this ever happened to them they would fight like lions to protect "their" kids.
When I was younger I would be so jealous because of all the things my Mom did for her students. She and the rest of the family would knit and crochet winter hats for her class because some kids didn't have hats. She made them for everyone so no child would feel singled out in a bad way. My sister and I would make the pom-poms.
She used to say that some of them didn't have nice parents and what they had at school might be the only things they got.
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u/cortesoft 3h ago
As a parent, the way I deal with that worry is to remind myself that while this happens way too often in this country and that is absolutely horrible, the chances of my kid dying in a shooting are still way lower than the chances of them dying in some other manner, and that I am so grateful how much lower the child mortality rate is today than it was in the past
I am in no way minimizing or trying to diminish the tragedy of school shootings, and I support any effort to do all we can to make it never happen. I am only talking about how I handle the fear of this happening to my child.
My cousin’s daughter was killed in a car accident while my wife was pregnant with our first child. 10 years later, I still regularly think about her and my cousin and what it would feel like if one of my children died. It is the absolute worst fear I can imagine, and I get a pit in my stomach just typing this out.
So what do I do with that fear? There is nothing I can do to reduce the risk to zero. We all have to live our lives with that sword of Damocles hanging over our heads.
What I decide to do is to use the fear as a reminder to always do what I can to make sure my kids are safe, and that this means more than just the big, showy fears that fill our nightmares. The mundane, everyday ways of keeping my kids safe are even more important than the headline grabbing things like school shootings or kidnappings. I increase my child’s odds of living a long and healthy life more by making sure my carbon monoxide alarm is up to date and working than by trying to avoid a mass shooter. I need to make sure I take them to the doctor regularly, and that they brush their teeth and eat healthy food. I need to always be a safe and careful driver, and make sure I practice good food safety. All of these things don’t run through your mind over and over in the same way something horrible happening to a kid does, but that is why it even more important to remember to always focus on those things. I use the visceral fear of a tragedy to remind me to pay attention to the mundane dangers.
Once I do those things, I have to just accept that what happens happens, and to enjoy all the moments I have with my kids, because even if everything goes right those moments will someday end.
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u/stronglikefeels 5h ago
My kids are still young and I’m so scared to send them to school. I don’t understand how this country keeps letting this happen. And why the voters keep voting for politicians who support this!
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u/Floss_tycoon 5h ago
And trump wants to talk about involuntary gender reassignment surgery. Smdh
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u/E-2theRescue 3h ago
We already have involuntary gender reassignment surgery.
Except it's the conservatives who push that surgery.
They push it on intersex INFANTS. They get the exact same gender reassignment surgeries that transgender adults get, except they are infants who cannot consent. And all of the anti-transgender laws make sure the loophole for these surgeries stay.
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u/External_Key_4108 3h ago
They also circumcize babies without their consent
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u/E-2theRescue 3h ago
And force/coerce young boys* to have their healthy breast tissue removed (gynecomastia)
*I've talked to a trans gal who had gynecomastia. She regrets letting her parents force her into surgical removal.
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u/heresyourfckingsalad 5h ago
Thing is, it can’t happen “anywhere”, just in America.
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u/E-2theRescue 3h ago
Conservatives want us to be upset about Kirk's kids
But not upset about anybody else's.
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u/SmoothOperator89 3h ago
And if you ever start to consider that perhaps his death was an unnecessary symptom of gun violence, just remember that he himself said that this sort of thing is a necessary evil to keep guns prolific.
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u/GrizzKarizz 4h ago
I'm Australian, I live in Japan and sent my kids to school here. Not once did I wonder if something like this would happen. I wonder why?
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u/RuthlessRaynor 2h ago
I was in high school during Sandy Hook, but a parent when Uvalde happened. My son has a special bracelet he wears and I memorize his outfits before he goes to school. Just in case I have to identify him. We are so broken as a country.
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u/kelbee83 6h ago
The truly evil thing is that conservatives only care about children when they’re in the womb.
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u/-TheInternetIsEvil- 6h ago
"Pre-born, you're fine! Pre-school, you're fucked! Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers."-George Carlin
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u/Sea_Working_80 6h ago
I miss george.We sorely need him in this current time
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u/Vahuo89 5h ago
Every thing he said needed to be said and he did.
His words still have the same power wether he's be alive or not.
Best thing we can do is heed them.
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u/Accurate_Tax_1302 5h ago
They need those babies to grow up and be slave labor for corporations.
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u/SamuelHuzzahAdams 5h ago
Facts with the caveat that this admin has an affinity to 13-14y
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u/FoxxyRin 6h ago
They care about controlling women, not protecting children.
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u/Reneeisme 5h ago
They don't mind soldiers murdering pregnant women, and injuring them to cause fetal death either. They don't care about children per se, but they do want control over their own children They don't want women to have abortions because those kids belong to them to decide what to do with, and they will decide what happens to them. Once they are born, abuse right up to murder by denying medical care, absolutely fine, because again, that's their choice to do what they want with their own children. It's not about children as a class. It's about control. And yes controlling women, because they want to control everything, and because controlling women is a necessary part of controlling children.
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u/ChopperChange 6h ago
conservatives only care about children when they’re in the womb.
They don't even care then, they just pretend to when it's convenient for their narrative.
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u/Spinnerofyarn 5h ago
True, because they cut SNAP benefits and I believe farmer assistance, which affects WIC benefits. WIC is exclusively for pregnant women and children up to five years old. So much for protecting children and family values. The only things they care about is getting richer and protecting pedos.
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u/0wlfather 5h ago
Thats because the unborn are a very convenient group to advocate for. They don't vote, and make policy demands.
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u/elgarraz 5h ago
They don't even care about the unborn or else they'd ensure expectant mothers got better health care during pregnancy.
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u/shartnado3 5h ago
And even then it’s not about the child’s life. It’s about controlling the woman.
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u/mrhorse77 5h ago
they dont even care then.
its only about controlling women's bodies, not children.
children are just fodder for their corporate pedo masters
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u/catsmash 5h ago
they care about desperate, exploitable people producing as many additional desperate, exploitable people as possible.
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u/CaptainMagnets 6h ago
They truly don't care about them then either. They're just a convenient excuse
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u/Notasmartwoman 5h ago
“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.
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u/E-2theRescue 3h ago edited 3h ago
They don't even care about that. A fetus is nothing but a tool to punish women and nothing more.
If they actually cared about the fetus, they would be promoting public services that feed pregnant women and get them the medical care that they need. But that would be "socialism", and they'll gladly watch a pregnant woman die of starvation and lack of healthcare before they hand over a single penny.
Guns are another piece of evidence. Just like kids under 17, guns are the #1 killer of pregnant women in America. Still won't change their minds on gun laws.
Instead, the fetus exists to punish women for having sex. Nothing more. Nothing less. If she has sex and can't afford the child, it's her fault. If she can't afford to feed herself or get healthcare, it's her fault. If she can't afford to raise a child, it's her fault. If she is the victim of rape or a shooting, it's her fault. Nothing is ever the fault of capitalism or the fault of gun laws. The blame is always passed onto the victim, and the fetus is used against women to protect anti-women hate.
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u/gordohimself 5h ago
Conservatives only cares about controlling, suppressing, and ultimately raping women. There’s been good reporting about how the modern anti-abortion movement has involved a slew of pro-rape policies. Check out Kylie Cheung’s book Coercion for more on this.
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u/WishfulHibernian6891 4h ago
They actually don’t care about children, born or not, at all. Period. They only care that the maximum number of women are pregnant, because that gives them greater control over women of reproductive age.
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u/The_Quintessence 5h ago
The truly evil thing is conservatives, you don't need to specify beyond that. All of their positions are evil.
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u/xEllimistx 6h ago
"We have no way to prevent this!"
- Only nation where this keeps happening
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u/tannerbananer06 5h ago
“Damn, bro, we have tried NOTHING and are like all out of ideas.”
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u/Aden-Wrked 4h ago
They’re just gonna start trying to arm all the teachers again and add more school resource officers. Same shit they always roll out when a school shooting occurs.
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u/BuddhaFacepalmed 2h ago
And those SROs will do nothing to stop school shooters.
Instead, what they'll be is maintaining the school-to-prison pipeline and sexually groom minors.
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u/kingcupk692 5h ago
Universal healthcare drastically needed
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u/Tobi226a 5h ago
"If we get univeral healthcare the economy would crash!"
- Ignoring every other country with functional universal healthcare
I love america so much, it's literally like watching a reality show.
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u/Excellent-Phone8326 5h ago
It's a lot of fun arguing with these idiots who think gun owners are more important than kids dying.
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u/Shield_Maiden831 6h ago
This is my friends' child. It is so weird to see him on every part of the internet.
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u/americanblowfly 6h ago
Words can’t describe how sorry I am. I can only imagine what a horrible, horrible time this must be for them.
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u/lawofthewilde 6h ago
Please hug your friend for this Reddit stranger. Tears have fallen for their sweet child. He deserved a future. He deserved a life. I’m so deeply sorry.
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u/VoodooDoII 5h ago
This is how I felt when I kept seeing pictures of my baby cousin after she was "allegedly" killed.
I only met her a few times but it still makes me really, deeply sad. But it's also very weird when I see an article about her pop up once in awhile
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u/STFUisright 3h ago
Can I ask what you mean by allegedly? Just curious. I’m so sorry for the loss of your baby cousin
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u/MaddieRuin 2h ago
Not the commenter but there's a special selection of people that believe Sandy Hook was faked by the left. They claim it was staged. They're ghouls.
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u/frolicndetour 5h ago
Oh geez. I'm so sorry for your friends and for you. It must be devastating. Just seeing his little face makes me bawl.
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u/awolfsvalentine 5h ago
The part that got me was seeing he put his crocs on the wrong feet. My 5 year old daughter always does the same thing.
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u/STFUisright 3h ago
Thank you for saying that. I wanted to say ‘You got your little shoes on the wrong feet little guy! 🥺But not flippantly. In a sad/loving way
I hate this so much
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u/Reneeisme 5h ago
I'm so sorry. I'm hurting for you all. I can't imagine the pain of it for everyone involved.
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u/Itchy_Tumbleweed_417 Release The Trump-Epstein Files 3h ago
I am so sorry. He looks like such a sweet little boy. Your friends must be in agony & I hope they feel peace again someday.
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u/Top-Hall-7945 6h ago
all the data collection and flock cameras at peak and this happens still lol
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u/Anotsurei 6h ago
Well TBF the police are concentrating on prosecuting women who get abortions out of state, guys who buy cannabis in a legal state and take it home, and the whereabouts of their exes and women they want to stalk. Ain’t go no time to protect kids. /s
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u/Gussie-Ascendent Release The Trump-Epstein Files 6h ago
Those are for the police to stalk their exes and arrest people with weed!!!
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u/Rikplaysbass 6h ago
I would try to resist the millennial urge to add lol to everything in a thread where elementary school children were gunned down.
I understand the struggle though
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u/beren12 5h ago
Oh you mean our generation where school shootings really became popular? Where the future became more and more bleak and social nets were removed year after year contributing to the chaos?
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u/Rikplaysbass 5h ago
Honestly, as fucked as the world has been since our formative years, I truly pity Gen Z. They didn’t even get the good years that we had in the 90’s
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u/Lawrence_of_Nigeria 6h ago
According to Charlie Kirk, this is an "acceptable casualty". Were there real justice in the world, Charlie would have lived and seen this happen to one of his own children, and then be forced to answer whether that casualty was also ”acceptable”.
Stuff like this makes me glad that I live in a nation where the right to bear arms means that I can wear short sleeves in public. (Homophone, I know, but the point stands.)
That child should have had a chance to grow and give to this world.
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u/halbeshendel 5h ago
Charlie died doing what he loved.
In a school shooting.
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u/kbeks 5h ago
*using racist dog whistles to defend gun rights.
The world can never forget that his last words were, in response to the question do you know how many mass shooters there have been over the last ten years, “counting or not counting gang violence?”
You shouldn’t speak ill of the dead, so I’ve got nothing to say about Mr. Kirk.
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u/BesaniChan 5h ago
I'm absolutely disgusted that my mother shares that view, and truthfully can't wait to put her in a home because of her lack of compassion and empathy.
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u/Lawrence_of_Nigeria 5h ago
Why are you responsible for her? Bootstraps, something something...
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u/NoNeed4UrKarma 4h ago
Some states make you responsible for taking care of your parents no matter how terrible they were, & even if they abandoned you unfortunately.
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u/YesItIsMaybeMe 2h ago
If my parents were that disgusting I would move states or even countries to abandon them. Fuck anyone that believes children are "acceptable casualties".
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u/LiveLifeLikeCre 2h ago
I'm sitting outside Grand Central station NYC, near a wall where I wrote "Fuck Charlie Kirk" the week he died. it's still there.
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u/Fragrant-Upstairs932 6h ago edited 6h ago
I got mad at this person because I thought she was complaining about the kid wearing a Pride shirt and now I feel like a dickhead. Poor kid. Rest in peace.
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u/carolineecouture 6h ago
Oh, don't worry, someone will have something to say about that shirt. I'm sure one of these talking head ghouls will be commenting something nasty and unhinged.
Poor baby, as always this breaks my heart.
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u/rethilgore-au 6h ago
Dude, I scrolled for less than a second and there was a comment about the shirt in the threads link.
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u/WasatchSLC 6h ago
As the father of a 6 year old and 4 year old I can’t imagine the pain and horror those parents are going through. If it hasn’t been enough yet, I don’t think it ever will be.
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u/--slurpy-- 6h ago
This little nugget and his backward shoes. Real tears here.
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u/enonymousCanadian 6h ago
Those crocs on the wrong feet. That’s gonna hit every time a kid wears their shoes wrongly.
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u/xChoke1x 6h ago
And the media BARELY talked about it.
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u/Icy_Yam5049 5h ago
This is the first I’m hearing about it.
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u/Tyler_s_Burden 5h ago
Seriously! Me too.
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u/Icy_Yam5049 5h ago
Really says how tall we’ve fallen. Just a few years ago it would have been everywhere yesterday to where it couldn’t be missed. Now 24 hrs after the fact I’m scrolling through the comments just to find out what this post is about. I’m so tired. This isn’t the country I was promised and it’s constantly getting worse.
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u/MeltinSnowman 6h ago
Oh... I thought this was gonna be one of those posts about a child being "iNdOctRInaTeD bY thE GaYs". I didn't know he was dead...
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u/americanblowfly 6h ago
Killed in the school shooting in Bend, Oregon yesterday. Gut wrenching.
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u/SussOfAll06 5h ago
It’s very telling that this didn’t even make the news here. Granted, I’m on the East Coast, but I first heard this from my British friend in China. China.
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u/taking_a_deuce 4h ago
I hadn't heard about this one either. It doesn't help that whatever threads link people are dropping is dead. I still don't even know what happened and I'm 15 comments deep in this thread. Someone I guess killed 3 kindergarteners? Weird and many times awful world we live in.
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u/Comiclee2018 5h ago
This is the scariest thing I’ve ever seen. A kid wearing a peace and love shirt. I wish magats could find a scarier boogie man.
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u/SlomoLowLow 6h ago
I could at least see the argument for guns if people would actually use them to protect us from a tyrannical government instead of just killing peoples kids.
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u/rzr-12 6h ago
Some people put constitutional amendments concerning guns more value than children.
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u/Icy_Yam5049 5h ago
It’s sadly the only part of the constitution they care about.
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u/SpiderCam27 6h ago
MAGA only “cares” if the shooter’s race or gender fits their narrative. Literally within minutes, they were all assuming that the shooter was trans like the brainless lemmings they are.
And to the surprise of nobody, the shooter in fact, was NOT transgender. Just another mentally unstable white kid. As someone with special needs myself, I really hope this doesn’t start a stigma that we’re all like this.
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u/Post_office_clerk01 5h ago
No. We are tired of white guys using that excuse when they go on shooting sprees. He was stable enough to be in these right wing echo chambers.
He was sane enough to sneak into a building an and murder little children.
He was a radical terrorist and he was HOMEGROWN.
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u/SpiderCam27 5h ago
I’m not disagreeing. The POS specifically shot up the classroom he was in as a student. He 100% knew what he was doing.
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u/emseefely 6h ago
5 yrs old means they just started kindergarten and it’s only been less then two months since school started. Life is so cruel. Guns should be more regulated.
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u/Bizzle_B 6h ago
I'm British and I was only small when we had a school shooting at Dunblane so I have only ever lived under pretty strict gun restrictions, I know I'll never really get why Americans need guns so badly but can it possibly be worth it? Is there some amazing aspect of gun ownership I'm missing? It makes no sense
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u/xt0rt 6h ago
We are a sick society that clings to the meanderings of slave owners from 300 years ago.
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u/emseefely 6h ago
NRA doesn’t help either
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u/Dapper-Jellyfish7663 5h ago
The NRA only became this way after black people with guns (Black Panthers) scared Reagan.
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u/TimothiusMagnus 5h ago
We have people who bribe, I mean lobby, politicians to keep the guns flowing. Then they have propaganda that syllogizes gun ownership with freedom. When I see someone purchasing military-grade guns, I jokingly think they should have been more selective when choosing enemies.
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u/Scarlet_Spider39 6h ago
Time to have the school shooting conversation with my kids...again.
I'm really fucking sick of never knowing if when I drop my kids off in the mornings, I'll be able to pick them up.
But sure Washington - offer your thoughts and prayers for the umpteenth time and don't fix a fucking thing. Again.
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u/kbean826 4h ago
Not just allows. Proudly proclaims that it’s the price of freedom, and if you don’t like it, you’re a commie.
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u/arinamarcella 6h ago
No thoughts, no prayers
Can’t bring back what’s no longer there
The silent are damned
The body count is on your hands
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u/microvan 6h ago
This breaks my heart. My son is the same age, I can’t imagine the pain his parents must be in. Looks like such a sweet little boy :(
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u/drifters74 4h ago
Onky in America does no public office actually do anything to try and prevent these.
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u/Odd-Supermarket-3664 3h ago
Texas Governor Abbott was upset that Texas was number 2 in the country for fire arms purchased. He tweeted that everyone should buy more guns. Kids were slaughtered in Uvalde and he didn't care. Republicans are fine with the slaughter.
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u/chriswimmer 6h ago
Where the pro life people at?
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u/No-Celebration3097 6h ago
Judging single mothers for buying their kid a birthday cake with SNAP
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u/frolicndetour 5h ago
They disappear after the baby is no longer attached to the mother they want to control and they don't reappear until that child hits puberty, if she's a girl.
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u/ReincarnatedRaptor 6h ago
Post won't accomplish anything, because the right has no heart.
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u/Waltzing_Methusalah 5h ago
But god forbid you show them a picture of this kid, lest you get accused of politicizing a tragedy. I’m so sick of their shit. They are worthless, spineless, pedo-sycophants.
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u/frolicndetour 5h ago
But cite a direct quote from Charlie Kirk after he gets shot and the MAGAt witch hunt is on.
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u/The_Great_Chicken 4h ago
Give it a few weeks and they'll start saying it's fake like what happened with Sandy Hook.
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u/NecessaryNinja1024 5h ago
He now has the dubious honor of being the youngest victim of a US school shooting. Five years old.
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u/Iamthewalrusforreal 6h ago
Shot by another kid, who clearly had untreated mental health issues, and was fired up by social media and current political leaders, and who's parents bought him a goddamned rifle.
Rhoam should be alive. Lots of kids should be alive but they also aren't for these very same reasons.
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u/Post_office_clerk01 5h ago
Not a mental illness. A homegrown white terrorist who believed the bullshit on Fox News and other hate media. His mother should be in the ground not all these kids.
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u/verminV 5h ago
So you guys gunna get some gun control yet like the civilised world?
Go on, downvote away.
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u/Reasonable_Deer_1710 4h ago
Why would we downvote? We want gun control too
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u/you_know_i_be_poopin 3h ago
As a gun owner, I want more gun control.
Also access to free therapy for kids is probably a good idea (and every other form of healthcare but I digress)
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u/Follow_youre_heart 4h ago
So many of us desperately want gun control. Especially parents. This sort of thing happens way too often and is absolutely horrific
The way our country normalizes violence is so shameful
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u/Mazasaurus 4h ago
They should all still be alive. This is stupid and we’re all stupid for continuing to act like it’s normal or “worth the price.” It’s not.
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u/Gingerrevamp 4h ago
I was in middle school when columbine happened, junior in high school on 9/11, starting college when Virginia Tech and my baby started kindergarten the same Christmas break that Sandy Hook parents should’ve been taking their kids on. Ulvade is a few miles away, it’s all so horrific
I make sure to tell my daughters every morning I love them and make sure I know what they are wearing just in case. And it makes me so sad
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u/lawofthewilde 6h ago
I’m sorry the adults who could’ve done something choose not to and now you’re not here, sweet Rhoam. Your life mattered. You deserved a future. I’m sorry, sweet boy. I’m so sorry.
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u/OkAssignment6163 5h ago
Add them to the rest of the dead children. A monument to our continued failures.
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u/MrVeazey 5h ago
When reasonable people have control over the government again, after some common sense gun control and universal health care that includes mental health, we should build a monument to all the innocent children killed in pursuit of bigger profits for gun manufacturers. Just a mountain of kids shoes, bronzed.
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u/OkAssignment6163 5h ago
Nah. Backpacks with bullet holes. Let's not forget where the majority of them were pointlessly lost.
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u/BreannaBanana11 5h ago
The only school shooting they ever cared about was Charlie Kirk.
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u/capeasypants 5h ago
Who was a divisive figure and not a child. And even that shouldn't have happened, even with him being a vile grifter.
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u/siggiarabi 6h ago
What happened?
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u/No_Hetero 5h ago
16 year old went and shot up his old elementary school. Casualties are a 5, 8 and 11 year old and a 25 year old teacher
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u/caohbf 6h ago
I don't know, but from context, it seems the USA is engaging on their national pasttime - school shootings.
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u/Blacksun388 5h ago
“There is nothing we can do to prevent this”, says only modern nation where this happens on a disturbingly regular basis.
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u/be_sugary 5h ago
All these deaths are completely avoidable but America seems to not care about its people in any way.
Heartbreaking and terrifyingly cruel.
Poor kids and their poor loved ones left with gaping holes of pain and sorrow.💔
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u/Tricky-Gemstone 5h ago
This is an American problem. We need to do better. My god. He's so small. My niece is 6. They're babies.
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u/PinkBismuth 4h ago
It's really telling how fucked up the US is. There is so much bullshit discourse that goes on that no one knows if this a MAGA rhetoric, a religious one, an anti abortion one. and so on.
This child was murdered in a school shooting in Bend, Oregon, its been 2 days and the news has come and gone. The US is so used to it that the fuckin idiot secretary who got fired is being blasted everywhere on the news, that no one is talking about the shooting anymore.
I have daughter this age, I cannot fathom the pain these parents have to go through. They will never be the same.
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u/spicystar4u 5h ago
Let’s be real.
Republicans don’t care about anyone’s life.
They love the death penalty.
They want public executions.
They hate POC and the LGBTQ.
They hate immigrants.
They hate free healthcare for all.
They deny children lunch at school.
They allow mass shootings by blocking gun reform.
They do not have your back.
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u/yamgamz 4h ago
His shoes are even on the wrong feet. That poor innocent child.
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u/ispshadow 5h ago
I was hoping I wasn’t going to see their faces this quickly. My little one is barely older than him. I don’t know how his parents are going to survive this because I think I would go literally insane
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u/SupersoftBday_party 4h ago
I’m so sorry we failed you baby sweetheart. You should be at home with your family tonight.
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u/ThoughtNPrayer 2h ago
This child looks exactly like my eldest child did at that age.
We have leaned NOTHING in the 27 years since Columbine. Or 13 years since Sandy Hook, or 8 years since Parkland, or 4 years since Uvalde.
We need to vote these death cults out of Washington DC, and stop sacrificing the nation’s children. America hasn’t gained anything worth the price we’ve paid.
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u/awolfsvalentine 5h ago
This sweet baby. He put his shoes on the wrong feet and everything. He was truly innocent.
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u/ISmellLikeBlackTea 2h ago
The irony of owning guns, and not using them to stand up to a tyrannical government of fascists, while simultaneously choosing them over your own children.
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u/Green-Edge706 3h ago
The amount of times I bring up these fears to people, and they respond with the fact that they’re scared too, and they mitigate the risk by sending their children to small private schools.
It’s about the guns, yes. But there’s also a sinister secondary underbelly about dismantling public education and provoking the public’s innate distrust of it.
Do shootings still happen at private schools? Yes. But (without checking stats) it does feel like the majority of them occur at public schools. It fans the flames.
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u/Annilus_USB 2h ago
America died after Sandy Hook.
When innocent children were shot to pieces and over half the country was still shrieking about how the government couldn’t take their guns, that was it.
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u/Formal-Try-2779 5h ago
Yeah the usual thoughts and prayers combined with literally zero action. Your kids are expendable in the supposed “greatest country in the world” that clearly doesn't care what happens to your citizens or even your children. From the healthcare system to this.
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u/denimonster 3h ago
I don’t understand why the US can’t wrap its head around gun safety.
Honesty, what is wrong with you lot?
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u/Rose1982 4h ago
What is wrong with your country? Why are you so messed up?
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u/dphoenix1 2h ago
We have been wholly captured by moneyed interests who have spent decades honing a media ecosystem that turns 40% of the country into mindless drones who are only able to believe and think what they are told to.
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