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https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/there-was-another-school-shooting
Jan 6, 2024 3:41 PM
SisterMidnight
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https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/there-was-another-school-shooting
SedatedSl0th
Speak for yourself. I’m just as outraged as I was day one. I fucking hate this. I’m so, so angry.
xstickman
'Cos it's just normal now. Just one of the costs of the gun culture America has. It's the same way we don't really pay attention to people who die being hit by a car - it's just an accepted background cost of car use.
Hemelsblauw
I did notice. It made the Dutch news. It's just that I only read the captions these days. Stories are the same, and I can't vote in the US.
KingORedLions
How did we not notice? We didn't notice because there's on average two every school day now.
DCon101
Simply put, this is the new norm.
Tomadzo
Walking downtown Savannah, GA this morning and some fucking pussy is shopping with a 9mm side arm. WTF you think is gonna happen you twat?
Imalwaysready
All true…except that Benjamin Franklin was an American living in the latter half of the 18th century and therefore would have said ‘you’ and not ‘thee.’
CanadianCyborg
*America
snofler
powerrangerpl
chevymonster
leepupjax
"Slave Rebellion" casts the 2nd Amendment in a completely different light. Any sources?
JackalopeElope
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1002107670#:
ITweetBBQ
thatkoreanguy
That about sums it up.
Cornchipp10
Reminder: asked to comment on this shooting, Trump said, "We need to get over it."
IDontCareAtAllButIShould
They all noticed and put out the mandatory thoughts and prayers message.
fallswinkingtothefloor
For the shooter, I assume
SisterMidnight
PrecogFrogOnALog
Thoughts and prayers isn't the only thing they said
Freyja33
These are almost never an 'unknown grudge' and it's borderline irresponsible to call it that in a news article instead of what it is. In almost all mass shootings the motive is political. They are almost always carried out by white males with a history of intense misogyny, they are almost always carried out by people with far-right wing politics. In most cases mass shooters openly admit their attack was ideological, but media consistently ignores this and shifts the conversation away from this.
Freyja33
My point in saying this is that we need to be fighting the ideology. People act like gun control or "mental health" is the answer and that's ignoring the fundamental reason why this happens and it's infuriating. Gun control might work if effective legislation could ever be passed but that will never happen in the United States if for no other reason than because Republicans know perfectly well that mass shootings are political violence committed on their behalf and help their agenda.
Banzai51
We love our guns more than other people's kids.
CitrusyGarlic
Someone please help me understand the choice not to capitalize the first word of the sentence here. It's even weirder to me when the author still capitalizes the first word when it's a word that you normally capitalize like "America" or "I". Why choose to make it harder for your readers to read when you don't have to?
digitalagriculture
Jeff is terminally Twitter-brained.
BRayGameDiver
Tired of being thrown in with the people who vote for this. If you vote Democrat, you've done the right thing. If you vote Republican, you're a piece of shit. End of story. Hold people accountable for their vote.
humblewordsmith
We homeschooled our kids until middle school for health/developmental concerns. They are thriving in public school, but the constant fear of this shit is making my wife and I reconsider pulling them out. Do we take away their friends, their activities,what they view as a life, to protect them? Or do we let them keep what they view as the most important thing in the world at the potential cost of their actual lives. Decisions no parent should have to make. #fuckthegop
tenthousandwinters
The number one “news” network is in the pocket of the gun lobbies and instead of advocating any actual control over the purchase of firearms, would rather demonize immigrants and the lgbtq community or turn schools into faux prisons with hardened entry and exit points and armed teachers.
SisterMidnight
judithCat
Old poopy murdoch probably won't die for a while yet. Lucifer don't want his mess on his doorstep
RainCityRogue
The Second Amendment wasn't seen as an individual right until the Heller decision retconned it
digitalagriculture
It would be nice if the Democrats tried to do something about the Supreme Court, but they value decorum and tradition too much to make any meaningful change.
UncleMartha
F U and your thoughts and prayers.
SaturnineCult
Republicans want the school to be such dangerous place, that people refuse to send their children there. No more educated (poor) people.
chevymonster
THIS! THis is what not enough people are understanding!
waterdragun
Now roll out the school vouchers…..
sadurdaynight
Desensitization. GOP know if they can hold out on an issue long enough, it gets normalized and ignored as part of the "static" they've been pushing. IE have so many issues going on all the time eventually people get burned out keeping up wirh it all and juat accept it. That's how you break people. Mental overload until surrender and acceptance takes over. It's part of the slave class conditioning they're pushing with corporations.
Gestalt7
Matrelith
Literally
RydWolf
baldertindaicon
They should not have removed the screaming. I know the powers that be will claim it is to show reverence to the families affected, but the truth is that the sound was removed to sanitize it, and make it more palpable to the public. If the public got the full affect, they might be more willing to do something about it, and the politicians can't have that.
Bollramm
I'm still waiting on the original footage with sound to leak 🤷♂️
Gestalt7
I'm eternally disgusted that they withheld the raw audio. We need the unfiltered experience to be beamed into everyone's living rooms. I want people puking on their own carpet over the horrors that are deemed to be 'inevitable' in our fucking schools. Let them see the true horror and then respond with only 'thoughts and prayers'. I know the jaded 1A assholes will eat it up but we need the tepid fucking fence sitters to get the goddamn nudge that pushes them into action.
unclefisty
The people in power will never let it out because it will make the people in power look worse than they already do.
SleazyBijou
In my opinion Sandy Hook was it. The collective balancing point where the nation would decide if “this is fine”. And we’re just reaping the rewards now. We sued the guy that said it was fake but getting the $ will take forever. Unfortunately, something MUCH worse must happen for real change to happen. Horrible enough it changes a republican’s mind - OMG no time soon then huh?
Alphaomegamc
100% Agree, along with the onion headline, "No way to stop this say only country where it continually happens" is this Tom Tomorrow comic. It's just the state of things now, which is fucking awful :(
https://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/TMW2011-01-12acolorlowres-copy-2.jpg
digitalagriculture
I agree Sandy Hook was the point where we gave up completely but I disagree that there is anything horrific enough to change things. There is no event horrible enough to change things, this is just how it is now and we're going to have to live with things getting worse forever.
SleazyBijou
Oh there’s something horrific enough. It’s just the people that want common sense gun reform aren’t the folks that can conjure such a thing.
Monocular0
Getting rid of NRA mouthpieces on all the major news channels (expecially Fox News) would change things bit by bit. People aren’t just born gun nuts. They’re indoctrinated into it.
kyramor
Question out of curiosity, not snideness or anything: does anyone have a sense of why this guy (this site?) decided to do away with capitalization entirely? Is it meant to be subversive? Is it meant to be somehow more human? It's distracting more than anything, for me, and I'm curious if it has any effect/meaning for anyone else.
digitalagriculture
Jeff is terminally Twitter-brained.
APassingPlasticBag
Another comment from the shooting the other day was 2024 has more mass shootings and gun related deaths than it has days…..something fucking wrong with this and I’m so tired of this
digitalagriculture
Every year has had more mass shootings than days for a while now.
PrinceOfWhales
We've effectively decided that a certain number of children are expendable....so long as it's not a child of a Senator, billionaire or celebrity.
PlainlyPuzzled
So, basically you're saying it's just the wrong people being shot. You can still fix that problem. Bit rough, but if you did, I'd like to see how fast things would change ...
SisterMidnight
sadurdaynight
And that's reinforced with their "pro life" campaign trying to force women to crank out more kids. Easier to indictrinate babies than kids already in school.
MidnightTacoTruck
Well. We're all fucked then because those kids are in private school or home schooled.
kudzoo
Hey, they happen to support school vouchers too. Convenient!
GreatOdinsTaint
Yep, that's why Ben Shapiro bragged about being able to afford armed bodyguards for his kids...It's the usual "my kids are safe, fuck you and yours."
inthenameofthemooniwillspoonyou
If only they gave the same energy towards “caring” about their lives as they give anti-abortion.
thoughtfulllama
Yeah because you are worth less to us senators than the money we get from the NRA... I mean, uhm, 2nd amendment and stuff.
oldernowiser
It is disgusting what you stated, disgustingly true to those who are not blind.
PlausibleLies
tWell, as long as it's under a certain amount of them. A billionaire or republican or two could change their minds if it happened to their children, but the rest would just call them weak.
Dimestream
My brother, a member of law enforcement, said with no irony, that dead kids are the price we pay for our freedom to defend ourselves. I still can't believe he said that.
magus200342
Until politicians have the same fears as the rest of us, they'll never change anything. Their kids are safe, so they don't care.
philmoregraves
I've said it so many times. The threat would have to be real to them, or sadly the loss
kudzoo
No wonder so many wealthy types support school vouchers.