#mass shooting cw

[angstics]

mass shooting at a minneapolis DIY show. horrifying and sad. gofundme's linked are for the partner of the person who was killed, august, and for the victims of the shooting.

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for yelling at my mom before she went away on an emotionally taxing trip to another country to take care of my hospitalized grandmother?

The town I'm in went through a mass shooting a couple weeks ago, you might have seen it on the news. I'm a college student and was staying on campus at the time, and everyone went through lockdown for a couple of days. I remember not being alerted there was a shooting going on until I had already been walking around outside for at least a hour while it was happening five blocks down, and then staying in my room while on a call with my friends until 7 am who were trapped in other buildings and had to sleep on the floor while listening to the police scanners and news stations for more info. The lockdown ended after a couple of days, but I still felt not Great, especially with all the lack of management from campus and the news reporters taking photos and videos of us during the lockdown. I had several panic attacks for days afterwards, and I'm still having them now.

I texted my parents a couple hours after it started confirming I was okay, and my dad basically texted back "I saw, you'll be fine, just stay away from the windows." This made me very upset because I thought he already knew about my situation and didn't even bother texting or calling first. But in a phone call later with my mom where I basically exploded at her for saying the same thing, I discovered he just looked up news articles 2 minutes after I sent the text and then texted that, and didn't know how close the incident was. She said that she'd be mad if what I thought was true, but in another phone call confirmed they had a talk and then told me my dad just has issues communicating sometimes and "you have a nervous personality" and so I should learn to accomodate him more. I also blew up at this and told her that he's not the one in a mass shooting right now so why do I have to accomodate for him (triggered by a pattern of this in the past) ((He still hasn't called or texted me since other than sending a quick apology for the misunderstanding).) We ended up having a very emotionally charged talk and my mom also stated her mom got hospitalized, it's all very stressful right now, and that's also why they didn't say anything about it in the family groupchat because they didn't want to stress out everyone with even more bad news and to please not tell anyone yet about it. She started ranting again about how bad her childhood was with her mom for like a half hour and I had to cut her off and redirect her. But in the end she said she now understood how serious my situation was and that I could talk to her anytime about it.

Well, I thought that was it. But after they found the shooter 72 hours later and lockdown ended, my mom called me and basically assumed that everything was fine now and I was feeling "normal" again. I was admittedly pretty cagey and told her I wasn't for several reasons and she seemed confused but didn't push it. Then a day afterward she texted me and said one of her friend's daughters had a college essay they had to submit tomorrow and asked me if I could help them and they'd buy me lunch later when I got back. I was annoyed but I ended up telling them to send it to me in a Google Doc and I made some comments, but then she called me again and asked me if I could get on a Zoom call with the daughter and fix the essay together with her. I told her no several times and asked her why I had to do this if she didn't even bother preparing this essay beforehand until the last minute, but my mom said "It's a nice thing to do", and "She really needs help", and wouldn't take my no as an answer after 10 minutes. Then I basically blew up at her one final time and told her that I just went through a mass shooting and I've been comforting my friend who saw some of the dead bodies and I'm having panic attacks and why can't she ever take no for an answer and that I hate her and then I hung up on her.

She basically texted me later and said she realized how inconsiderate her request was when I said that one of my friends saw the dead bodies. She said she's leaving to go to visit my grandma soon but I can call her any time if I want. It's been a couple weeks and there's been no communication from either of us.

I feel bad for blowing up at her since she didn't seem to know how bad it was and also her mom is hospitalized and it's very stressful. So, AITA?

What are these acronyms?

[chongoblog]

I used to think that I was in the rough mentally, but then I went on Twitter and saw people who think that SSRI's are being pushed since they more easily activate MK Ultra and that's why mass shootings are happening, so really I think my grip on reality could be way worse.

[scooplery]

three hundred and fifty law enforcement officers on the ground and it still took 48 hours to find his ass. didn't bring tracking dogs in at all. left his car alone for twelve hours at the boat launch before collecting any evidence. police are worse than useless. we had to live in terror for two entire days

[lultimagoccia]

Hey Pizzano? Maybe you should give Stinky a break, he looks like he's about to tell you not to come into work tomorrow.

Send brutal anons to my muse criticizing/negating their relationships in canon or with someone they interact with on this blog!

" Are you fuckin' implying ol' Stinks would go POSTAL?? And you think I would NOT wanna see that happen? Holy fuck, you could not be MORE wrong!

Dude absolutely wouldn't tell me not ta come in, though, come on now. I'd be his first stop. I bust that guy's balls all the damn time, and hell if it don't get me some results. He works better under pressure. They can give me as many doctor's notes about his high blood pressure and needin' to reduce his stress levels they like, I know how that man REALLY ticks. "

[abracadaze]

fucking hate twitter man i hear about another mass shooting and right wingers are frothing at the mouth about how woke liberals are the real terrorists because the shooter had his pronouns listed on his linkedin or some shit. do they not know that some employers make you do that shit. theyre calling this man a "pronoun terrorist"

[microcroft]

it was so fucking upsetting when there was a mass shooting in virginia beach, at a place i had driven past before, like just being able to visualize where it happened in my mental map was really horrible.

nothing can compare to living 7 minutes, 3 miles, away from where a another tragedy happened, in your city, in your Area of the city where you have grown up and lived your whole life. at a place that you saw get built. at the place you bought taki's for the first time and have driven past a million times. where you might know or have connection to the people who had their lives taken from them. they might have been taught by the same teachers as you, might be a friend of a friend. you might have walked by them before, might have had eye contact with them and shared a polite smile as you passed.

then you see people across the country talk about how terrible of a tragedy it is, speak the name of your home, somewhere so personal to you, and ever single time it is said you are shocked. because they shouldnt know the name of your city. this shouldnt have happened. barely anyone speaks of your city, it isnt a big one, its gotten bigger over the years but its no where near norfolk or virginia beach. your city has never been important before other than to you and those connected to it.

[harpsicalbiobug]

sadness in tags, sorry

[angstics]

post-parkland march for our lives mvmt was the first thing i remember believing in politically

[lizardsfromspace]

Thinking about this again and the other fundamental fuck up was the media reporting on Columbine as a shooting, when in fact they planned it as a bombing and only started shooting people when their bombs failed to go off.

Which isn't a minor mistake to make bc so much of the coverage was based on the idea it was targeted: that they targeted Christian students or that they had a list of bullies to kill. But obviously if their plan was to just blow up everything, that doesn't make any sense. Basically every aspect of it - from the conservative persecution narrative to the revenge narrative to just about everything else claimed in the aftermath of the attack - falls apart when you realize they were truly just aiming to indiscriminately murder people. Which we've known since 1999 but which doesn't stop people from making movies about how they were definitely hunting people who believed in God, and giving interviews where they say they would've Listened

Was there ever a news event in our lifetimes that the media fumbled more aggressively than Columbine. They genuinely got every single detail wrong

From reporting that they killed someone for saying she believed in God (a different girl who said she did survived) to not reporting that they sought out students of color while yelling racial slurs - on Hitler's birthday & a day after the anniversary of OKC and Waco - while promoting the idea that you have to watch out for loner bullied nerds. Even though later research shows that the shooters were, in fact, bullies themselves, who had a wide social circle, and they were, you know, Nazis motivated by racism and not the video game Doom (1993).

It's a generational fuck-up, the GOAT of bad reporting bc it's still with us. The narrative of persecution after "she said yes" is a huge reason the evangelical right is like how it is today (they made a biopic that uncritically repeated it just a couple years ago!) & they still push the idea that it's primarily victims who do that sort of thing and not aggressors & people still shared that stupid video of Marilyn Manson saying he'd "listen" until a couple years ago (though the shooters being abusive Nazi creeps would uh, not diminish Marilyn Manson's desire to befriend them, I feel)

[scooplery]

all the news coming out about the cops doing fucking NOTHING to stop the lewiston shooter even tho they knew he was dangerous weeks ahead of time. awesome. eighteen of my neighbors r dead cause they couldn't be bothered to keep looking for him to do a real welfare check when they couldn't find him the first time the alert went out 👍

[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.

[semlramis]

for those paywalled out bc NYT 🤢

COLORADO SPRINGS — Some two dozen people gathered for a subdued prayer vigil on Sunday afternoon near the nightclub where a gunman killed at least five people overnight.

Those in attendance lit candles, recited prayers and offered hugs to one another at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church. Many had ties to Club Q and the victims.

“This club was a refuge for our community,” said Bird Berg, 31, a produce manager at a grocery store who attended the vigil with her wife, Kourtney Berg, 31. “I’m completely devastated at how this can happen again and again.”

The Bergs, who grew up in Colorado Springs, said they had been frequenting the club, which was open to underage patrons some nights each week, since they were in high school. They both knew two of the victims who were fatally shot, they said.

Kourtney Berg, who works at a medical marijuana dispensary, said Club Q was considered one of the few venues where young people in the L.G.B.T.Q. community could feel welcome and safe in a city known for its conservatism.

Kourtney said the latest tragedy brought back memories of another mass shooting in Colorado Springs in 2015, when a gunman with anti-abortion views opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic, killing three people and injuring nine.

“To be honest, I don’t see a solution to these things,” Kourtney said after the vigil, wiping tears away. “Access to guns is never going to go away.”

Others at the vigil were grasping for ways to understand what had happened.

The Rev. David Petty, the pastor at St. Paul’s, recited a meditation that he wrote five years ago in the aftermath of another mass shooting, when a gunman killed 58 people at a music festival in Las Vegas.

“After all, we have done this before,” Rev. Petty said, reading from his pages as people wiped their tears away. “We will talk about mental health, and terrorism, and we’ll talk about hate and love.”

“We will shout opinions across the internet, and we will unfriend those who make us upset,” he added. “There will be memorials, and vigils, and thoughts and prayers. We have done this before.”

Today was exhausting, I haven't cried this much in idk how long. My friends and chosen family picked me up and carried me through. I don't know what I'd do without them. My community is everything to me, and I would do anything for my siblings. For long as I am alive I will fight for my family. Rest in power.

[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?

[notaplaceofhonour]

“her boyfriend’s a dick, he brings a gun to school” was a very different line in 2000