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sloppymcgee t1_j8jam46 wrote

Reply to comment by LesbianCommander in Michigan State cancels athletic events for 48 hours after campus shooting by PrincessBananas85

Uvalde showed me that we are extremely far from a solution. It seemed like after the slaughter of 19 elementary school kids and two teachers, Texas grew stronger in their support of gun rights. Some states are absolutely out of their minds when it comes to their right to bear arms. Those poor kids died in vain

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Ferris_Wheel_Skippy t1_j8juk2e wrote

It's interesting you brought up Uvalde. My earliest memory of a mass shooting was Columbine in 1999

then there were a string of them, so many of them at this point that I've forgotten. I know there was Virginia Tech, and then Rep. Giffords getting shot in the head, and the Aurora Movie Theater and many more...but the one that really stood out to me was Sandy Hook in 2012, because of the young age of those poor kids who lost their lives that day because of some fucking ugly bloated-face moron with a bowl cut.

but then nothing happened. If anything, the pro-gun whackjobs got even more embedded and defensive in government. That's when I realized if people don't care about protecting kindergarteners, then they're never going to care

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