#cw mass shooting

[agendercryptidlev]

Hey folks. So transphobes are claiming the Madison, WI school shooter was a transgender man who killed two people because of the dangerous effects of testosterone. This is not true, the shooter is reportedly a cisgender neonazi radical feminist who wanted to kill all men. However real trans men are going to be affected by the lie being spread that the shooter was a trans man and that testosterone made her do it. Please check in with your transmasculine friends if you can, you never know who is being affected by this kind of online game of telephone.

[ayeforscotland]

Today marks the anniversary of the Dunblane Massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in British history, which happened on 13th March 1996 in Dunblane near Stirling.

Thomas Hamilton walked into a school with four weapons and killed 17 people - one teacher and 16 children who were about to start PE class in the assembly hall.

The aftermath resulted in the Firearms (Amendment) Act in 1997 which brought in stricter gun control.

For those who've followed this blog for a while, I've mentioned before that my nursery teacher was one of the mothers who lost their child that day. I obviously didn't know it at the time, but I've thought about it ever since I learned that about her. I have never been able to find the words to describe the strength she had in order to surround herself with children that were around the same age as her daughter.

[doccywhomst]

hey I respect you a lot which is why I’m reaching out to you about this. Maybe you’re just unaware, but a LOT of the protesters are not just “breaking into buildings”. They are harassing, attacking, and calling for the genocide of Jewish people. Do you think there shouldn’t be protection for Jewish students? I’m concerned that we’ve reached a point where all protests are becoming acceptable, and the rhetoric of that post you reblogged is only normalizing violence. It claims that it doesn’t support state-sanctioned violence, but clearly accepts violence from protestors, which is proving to be increasingly dangerous to Jewish people on and off campuses. I recommend you take a closer look into what’s really happening at these protests. You have to consider if you’d find the same actions acceptable from a cause you do not support. And if you do, maybe you should examine why you think violence and hate speech is acceptable. You don’t have to publicly respond to this ask, I just want you to consider these things.

my very basic interpretation of this post (i’m a blogger not an epistemologist) is that police brutality/negligence is unacceptable. do i think violence and hate speech are acceptable? also no.

but this is a very relevant topic, because today is May 4th, the 54th anniversary of the Kent State Shooting: police shot live ammunition into a crowd of college students protesting the Vietnam War, killing four people and injuring nine.

not the same situation at all, but all the same - i would never support state sanctioned violence against people protesting a genocide. that isn’t a controversial statement to me…. i would never support state sanctioned violence against ANYONE! ​i would also never support violence or hate speech against anyone! why should i have to surrender either of these beliefs?

[shabbyshoebox]

CW: Shootings, Trump mention

Now that it's not as new, I'm gonna say something kinda dumb:

Not gonna lie I thought that if there was going to be an attempt on Trump's life that it would have been when he was in my area

Gun violence is pretty bad in my area to the point where the area has had several shootings make national news in the past few years including 2019 Municipal Center, 2022 Walmart, and 2023 Richneck. Keep in mind that these are only the ones that have made news outside Virginia, this doesn't include the daily stuff happening in the seven cities.

2728 shootings (including suicides) occured in the seven cities between 2018 - 2022 [arcgis].

I'm glad it DIDN'T happen here, but I am quite surprised

[douche-canoe-regatta]

didn't know Maps did this and wish I could unlearn it... shits FUCKED guys

[lessthanthreelalli]

i always read posts about like how long term stressful situations can be traumatic and there can be like, multiple traumatic events that seem small but still get you and im like yeah :) that's accurate. but then there is also the shooting

[unhingedkinfessions]

IM SORRY??????

no. literally go to jail. i dont care if u claim to be factkin of xyz real life criminal, if you idolize or woobify people like that in any way, you need to go on a watchlist. go to jail. granted, it's not usually "fangirl-types" that end up like this, but do u know the amt of mass ki||ers/attempted mass ki||ers that idolized those stupid fucks? i want to tear this person apart with my teeth .

(answering this ask as a screenshot bc i dont want the post to show up in search results relating to the subject)

[leothil]

Today marks 12 years since the mass shooting on Utøya in Norway, where right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik killed 69 people, mostly teenagers. And I can't help but think about how one of the guys Breivik cited in his manifesto now sits as speaker of the parliament here in Finland. The world is fucked up.

[furrylibrarian]

I had to attend active shooter training today because I live in a very normal and healthy country.

Most of the presentation was fearmongering and stressing the importance of taking initiative and something something good guy with a gun. I’m not at all surprised that a presentation designed and presented by the police department really wants to make sure that civilians know that they’re constantly in danger but also that they are personally responsible for their safety during a crisis.

[frances-baby-houseman]

cw mass shooting & gun violence

I have been really struggling today and yesterday and I couldn't really figure it out (bc, as I said, there are zero planets in retrograde) and then I realized there have been all these mass shootings and I'm just... I'm just really struggling with that right now. I feel very sad and very scared and angry and bc it's just always there simmering I guess I didn't realize that it had been turned up like this. I know that people are trying to be... meaningful when they post stuff about shootings and guns (it's the fucking guns it's the fucking guns it's the fucking guns it's the fucking guns it's the fucking guns it's the fucking guns) but every time I see it it feels like a tiny punch. And you know! Who else do I know (other hand half my neighbors) who has survived a mass shooting??? No one is thinking like that when they post stuff!! It still just gets to be hypothetical for my friends and for me every time I go back to the thought I had where there were two sets of 10 gunshots bc my brain couldn't process a gun firing 80 shots that fast.

Anyway. anyway.

[lovethatlaiduslow]

sometimes i think about how my dad named me after a woman he knew who was in a church shooting in texas and didn't tell me until i was 22 yo

[ayeforscotland]

Sorry my last ask was so broad. May I ask for your thoughts on the things happening in US politics at the moment? Like the Texas Judge ruling that the abortion pill is “unsafe” even though the data which shows it to be less dangerous than Tylenol/Acetaminophen and banning it nationally. and abortion rights in general for many Americans.

Or the legislation being proposed that affect to LGBT community, which is a broad topic on its own.

Or the 148 mass shootings the US has had in the first 100 days of 2023 (just today there have been 2 more)

I'm sorry these are some heavy topics. I don't expect you to respond to all of these. Thank you for reading this. Hope you have a lovely day :)

Sorry my last ask was so broad. May I ask for your thoughts on the things happening in US politics at the moment?

Like the Texas Judge ruling that the abortion pill is “unsafe” even though the data which shows it to be less dangerous than Tylenol/Acetaminophen and banning it nationally or abortion rights in general for many Americans.

Or the legislation being proposed that affect to LGBT community, which is a broad topic on its own.

Or the 148 mass shootings the US has had in the first 100 days of 2023 (just today there have been 2 more)

I'm sorry these are some heavy topics. I don't expect you to respond to all of these. The situations here scare me, as a queer woman. Thank you for reading this, and taking the time to respond to it. It means a lot. Hope you have a lovely day :)

Oops think your ask doubled up for some weird reason. To get it out of the way, I have never been to America. My thoughts on each of those topics are pretty much the same whether I'm talking about America or not. Guns are quite an American issue which I'll jot down some thoughts. I'm pro-choice, pro-equality and pro-gun control. In my opinion, unsafe abortion only happens when people don't have access to safe and legal abortions. Banning abortions or banning morning-after pills does nothing but increase unsafe abortions. To anyone who doesn't support abortion, that is absolutely fine, just don't have one. But don't dictate what someone else can do. Any anti-LGBT legislation is inherently evil. No excuses. Mass shootings are incredibly frustrating from a outsider's perspective. We only really get 'the big ones' reported in our news, and this has a number of issues. For some backstory, my nursery teacher was the mother of one of the children killed in the Dunblane massacre - the deadliest mass shooting in British history where a gunman killed 16 kids and a teacher before he killed himself. I learned about it super young and was always amazed she spent all her time teaching children who were roughly the same age her daughter was. And I hate that I have to write that, because after every single mass shooting, there's a viral twitter post from some UK liberal twat who just want clicks who rhymes off the Dunblane massacre as some sort of gotcha. I remember when Sandy Hook happened, and was young and ignorant enough at the time that I expected that was *the one* - that was America's Dunblane massacre and that would really change things. Now I'm just sad and tired, and a little bit ashamed that whenever I hear about a mass shooting on the news that my reaction is just "Oh, that's a tragedy" and then carry on with my day. They are so frequent, and the reaction after each one is so poor that I can't mentally invest in each one. I'm a bit more pragmatic than the non-Americans who comment saying that America should just confiscate all guns. I know that that won't happen, but I do think there should be stricter regulation for owning one.

Super heavy topics - super heavy answers. Hope that's what you were looking for.

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

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[alethiometry]

you know what i find surprising but probably shouldn’t find surprising at this point about the monterey park shooting is how fucking absent the cops were throughout fucking all of it

like. the man had a long history of mental illness, had multiple run-ins with the cops, and not once. NOT ONCE. did they ever help him. whatever it takes to push a person to commit the atrocities he did that night, i’m not saying he shouldn’t be accountable for his actions. but the cops are 100% at fault for it too, and should be to blame for their abject failure to protect their community. of which that man was a part. they failed him.

on top of all that. i was talking with my therapist today who grew up in the area and was at the LNY festival that day (before the shooting) and she said that the mood was already incredibly off that day because there were ARMED COPS AT THE FESTIVAL. and police booths with like. pamphlets and photo ops with uniforms and toy guns (!!!!!!!) and shit for little kids to take photos.

like why. WHY would you bring FUCKING FIREARMS to a festival meant to celebrate LIFE and JOY and PROSPERITY. they don’t have armed cops at fucking smorgasburg.

i mean we know why lmao

so it’s like. all this propaganda because the population there does skew older and morse conservative than other parts of LA. but like. WHERE WAS THE PROTECTION WHEN WE NEEDED IT THAT SAME NIGHT????

it wasn’t even cops who disarmed the man at the 2nd dance hall and saved the lives of everyone there, IT WAS A CIVILIAN.

and they chased the shooter all the way to torrance. FUCKING TORRANCE that’s an entire city and county away. like i go to both places fairly often but by no means are they places that i would go to in the same day. they’re SO far away from each other. they are on OPPOSITE SIDES of the city of los angeles. and they had to chase him ALL THE WAY THERE??? like do you realize how fucking bad you have to be at your job to have to chase a man WHO YOU HAVE A RECORDED HISTORY OF DEALING WITH. ALL THE WAY TO A DIFFERENT FUCKING COUNTY.

anyway fuck the cops fuck the cops fuck the cops fuck the cops i’m gonna fucking scream

[douche-canoe-regatta]

(cw: Lewiston Maine shootings)

**FYI as of 4:48pm EST the shooter has NOT been apprehended**

so I live about 30 mins from the shootings - in rural speak, that's closer than my daily commute. we had a shelter in place order all last night to this morning. heard a helicopter earlier and just burst into tears for 2 minutes after a night of little sleep. I have customers who live in that area. one of my coworkers (who is safe) lives in Lewiston.

if one more person tells me it's fine, you're safe, you're far away etc I'm gonna flip out. I'm (largely) not worried about myself, I'm worried about everyone else.

sorry for the ramble. this just sucks.

[roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it]

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