Thank you for writing this. It's not an issue we can afford to be numb to.
The fact that I read this and listened to Godfrey's SZD episode about DIFFERENT MASS SHOOTINGS is so depressing, but both are needed.
I'm thankful that I graduated from Virginia Tech a year before the shooting there. I know people who were shot (fortunately survived) and people with near misses from that event (his mom had a wedding, so he skipped the one of the classes that was attacked). I'm thankful that that's the closest interaction I've had with an event like this, but it's incredibly depressing that I really have to end that statement with a "so far."
I'm just so tired of people acting like Ned Flanders's beatnik parents, with a "we tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas" every time this happens.
Thank you for writing this. It's not an issue we can afford to be numb to.
The fact that I read this and listened to Godfrey's SZD episode about DIFFERENT MASS SHOOTINGS is so depressing, but both are needed.
I'm thankful that I graduated from Virginia Tech a year before the shooting there. I know people who were shot (fortunately survived) and people with near misses from that event (his mom had a wedding, so he skipped the one of the classes that was attacked). I'm thankful that that's the closest interaction I've had with an event like this, but it's incredibly depressing that I really have to end that statement with a "so far."
I'm just so tired of people acting like Ned Flanders's beatnik parents, with a "we tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas" every time this happens.
Keep writing, keep trying. Thank you.
Avoiding a mass shooting event in America means you were lucky.
That's where we're at today.
If you happen to make it to old age without encountering one, you're the exception.