#cw mass shooting

[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

[thundergrace]

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. The community was already in mourning and woke up to news of another shooting at a queer nightclub.

[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

[zettelkaestchen]

Hab ja gerade zwei Posts zu #Utøya gerebloggt wegen Jahrestag und zum rechtsextremen Terroranschlag in #München am OEZ, was absichtlich (!) am selben Datum 5 Jahre später geschah, wollte ich auch was teilen, aber ich finde nichts dazu!? *hust* (Außer einen von 2017, aber da wird es falsch als "Amoklauf" bezeichnet.)

Also, deshalb kopiere ich hier den Gedenkpost von der Instagram - Seite @muenchen.oez.erinnern

In Gedenken und Erinnerung an die 9 Ermordeten des rechtsterroristischen OEZ-Anschlags vom 22.07.2016

Armela Segashi (14)

Can Leyla (14)

Dijamant Zabërgja (20)

Guiliano Kollmann (19)

Hüseyin Dayıcık (17)

Roberto Rafael (15)

Sabine S. (14)

Selçuk Kılıç (15)

Sevda Dağ (45)

Heute sind 8 Jahre nach diesem rassistischen und rechtsterroristischen Anschlag vergangen.

Wir kommen heute zusammen, um euch zu gedenken. Wir werden euch nicht vergessen. Ihr bleibt immer in unserer Erinnerung.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[thundergrace]

November 22, 2022

Choose your fighters: an army veteran, a club-goer and a drag queen or hundreds of Uvalde police officers outside of an elementary school

[negative-speedforce]

Please keep me and my coworkers in your thoughts and prayers. There was a mass shooting in the neighborhood, and the shooter is still at large.

[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