#school shooting mention

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Look, my local news stations have been running stories about school shootings pretty much 24/7 lately. The simple fact of the matter is that I am so, so tired of kids being murdered and the US is the only country in the world where this is the norm. I can't take it anymore. Things need to change.

[just-antithings]

This just in, antis using a school shooting to say how "fiction affects reality" when the DUMBASS ACKNOWLEDGES THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT EDITS OF REAL PEOPLE THAT IS NOT FICTION

like not only was this fucking tasteless and insensitive but they HONEST TO GOD don't even get it right

[theresamouseinmyhouse]

tbh i do get a little bothered by the notion that tim took the first shot he had to drop out of school because he hated school and didnt wanna do it and all of that bc i feel like it ignores the probably very important context that he dropped out after his dad (as well as steph-or at least, he was led to believe, in the same week) died, also he was in a school shooting. He did attempt to go to a school in bludhaven but the kids there were so wildly insensitive about the shooting that tim dropped out under the pretense of his "uncle" homeschooling him. In his oyl era, he /did/ go back to school, and it provided him some form of normalcy. Tim was a normal kid, he wasnt crazy about school but he still went to school and it helped him feel like a normal kid, something he desperately clung to. He only dropped out again to do his Brucequest, in an era where he was notably Not Doing Well (which. Yeah. he wasnt doing well bc he was like 17 and almost everyone in his support system was dead, he recently had hits put out on him, got blown up, and backstabbed by his not-dead-ex, he couldnt support his theory that bruce was alive and was extremely stressed about that, and he didnt know wtf he was doing. I love him btw.) Basically tim dropping out of school was a signifier that he wasnt doing well and he was giving up on the normality that he tried to cling to and im a bit of a nitpicky person who gets irked by minor things

[montymollusk]

“kids are so stupid these days, the ipad babies are ruining the world, ten year olds skip school and goes to sephora—“ do you have any idea what it’s been like to go to american public school within the last 15 years? can you blame a child for not wanting to spend 8 hours a day in a place where their safety and autonomy aren’t just not considered, but are blatantly denied?

mass shootings every day. funding being cut. school lunches— which were already the bare minimum in terms of nutrition— being removed. those alone would give anyone trauma, but even without those things the power structures inside of the average public school are designed to wring the individuality out of a child. (and that’s not even mentioning the way that neurodivergent kids are left out to dry by the school system, or how any marginalized kid can be tortured by their peers with no repercussions!) it’s designed to be miserable, and yet somehow people are surprised that kids don’t want to be there.

sandy hook happened in 2012, and nothing changed. uvalde ten years later, and still nothing. kids were forced back into overcrowded, unsanitary classrooms while covid was still killing thousands every day— most after having missed critical social development during lockdown, which there was no support for recovering from. children are being forced to see politicians debate the “ethics” of feeding them, letting them express their gender identity, allowing them to access accurate information about history as if their futures are just hypothetical. along with that is the social media boom, where marginalized people can create communities like never before, and those same kids are realizing that the systems they’ve been shoved into are broken. they’re being showed how awful the situation really is, and still completely powerless to change anything.

can you imagine having to go through all that and still pass your standardized fucking tests? my god, it’s a wonder that schools aren’t completely empty by now. we’re getting there though— i can’t count how many stories i’ve heard of kids dealing with truancy charges because of how many days of school they’ve “skipped” due to extreme anxiety or burnout. i’m one of them! i barely graduated in 2018, and the conditions were leagues better then!

people bitch about the “decline in intelligence” between generations, as if it’s the kids fault for the state of the world, as if this isn’t the inevitable conclusion for the public school system in this country. it feels deliberately ignorant— have you not watched the news recently? does it not evoke any empathy, does it not fill you with rage? how in the world could you pin the blame on kids here?

everyone says protect the children, and yet. fuckin sickening.

[narcissisticpdcultureis]

npd + “scary” autism culture is getting called a school shooter in high school cause you were “offputting” and didnt talk to people (but then not really minding cause it meant people left you alone)

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[jewish-vents]

oh my god. this is liley the most unsafe i had ever felt as a jewish canadian, ever since shabbos, when two men opened fire against a jewish elementary school

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[rachelcommitscrimes]

idk why i feel the need to say or post this but i’m fucking terrified of school shootings. it’s not a crippling fear but the whole concept just makes me sick to my stomach. maybe i’m just paranoid because some other girls told me about a weird freshman guy who’s been talking about guns/shootings and how he would go about it (they reported it to teachers dw)

i also live in the south so it’s not like we have a bunch of high-tech funding for metal detectors and shit.

idk man it’s just fucking insane that someone would even think of doing something like that. humans really are the worst.

i pray that nothing like that will ever happen to me and i hope the same for you guys. i wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.

sry just needed to get smth off my chest

[t-s-n]

people who make school shootings jokes about america just really fucking suck !!

[seraphic-sapphic-safehaven]

I cannot believe that the same man I protested alongside for BLM during the summer of 2020 got elected to be a state representative.... just for other lawmakers to put in a formal request for him and 2 others to be removed this year. Why do they want him removed, you ask? BECAUSE HE PROTESTED WITH 10,000+ STUDENTS YESTERDAY FOR BETTER GUN LEGISLATION, THEIR RIGHT TO FEEL SAFE IN SCHOOL, AND MORE!!

Representative Justin Jones, also known as Brother Jones to many of us here in TN, does not deserve this. He's a fantastic organizer and now state legislator who has repeatedly put his body, mental health, and life on the line for countless people. And the other two Reps., Gloria Johnson and Justin Pearson, don't deserve it either. Especially not for joining people they're meant to represent in a fight for their safety and rights.

If you wanna help them, please call Speaker Cameron Sexton's office at +1-615-741-2343 and leave a voicemail demanding they not unlawfully remove Reps. Jones, Johnson, and Pearson from their rightfully-elected positions. You can leave a name, real or not, and number if you want, but you don't have to. You can also email Speaker Sexton at speaker.cameron.sexton@capitol.tn.gov.

PLEASE REBLOG THIS IF YOU SEE IT, AND PLEASE HELP IF YOU'RE WILLING AND ABLE TO!

[thoughtsaboutbats]

I've got this idea in my head of Tim doing an interview for something Wayne related, and at the end of it the interviewer blindsides him by bringing up the anniversary of War Games/the shooting at his school, showing him a picture of Darla's corpse and asking him totally inappropriate questions

[awakefor48hours]

Why are middle schoolers taught to be calm and silent when there's an active shooter on their campus but police can just shoot people because "they twitched and I got scared."

[just-antithings]

I find it mildly interesting that antis only ever bring up *Jaws* as an example of ~fiction influencing reality~, but never bring up, say, *The Turner Diaries*, which has directly inspired many white supremacist terrorist attacks. Even now, neo-Nazis constantly reference it and treat it as, like, their bible. Or *Rage*, which was linked to so many school shootings that it made Stephen King uncomfortable and he had it permanently pulled from print.

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[shadow-von-vamp]

when my school had a shooter threat they just called in extra police officers and let us all stay in the cafeteria which is what the person specifically threatened but when we had a bomb threat they made us all leave our stuff and took us to the football field

[transfemmes]

not to cause more stuff but i believe station is claiming either you or someone close to you named themselves after a school shooter...? on its twitter ? do u know any context behind that or what its talking about ...

NO??