i was the watching the Florida events on TV before the gunman was captured …..watching the HS kids being escorted from school with their hands up, some were crying in panic and I thought back to a day when I was in 2nd grade during recess in school, a furnace blew up in a classroom that eventually caught fire to a classroom in a different wing….
I remember the firetrucks, kids crying in panic even though we were in no real danger… no injuries to anyone…. (friends from FB from my elementary school still bring that fire up today about how stressful they felt about that mild event)
what also came to mind was when i’d get call from my kid’s elementary school, or middle school or high school of a lock down notice… my kids would come home and tell us the details of their teacher locking and blocking the doors with a desk or chairs as the kids hunched under their desks to protect themselves from a trespasser on school campus or whatever triggered the event.
I then remembered about seeing a REAL SPORTS HBO story about a Sandy Hook first grade kid who survived the attack and described his escape from the classroom where the gun attack took place, ……. drywall chalk was on his face from bullets that ricocheted off the classroom walls. he slipped and fell on a pool of blood on the class room linoleum floor as he frantically ran out of the classroom, his clothes covered in a dead classmates blood . for years, that surviving kid didn’t not want to go anywhere in public…..that shouldn’t happen to anyone, let alone a 1st grade kid….
I then talked to a co-worker about these events, and he told me that his cousin was in the Columbine HS during the Columbine tragedy and she was never the same after the event…… She is getting better, but has relaps when events like what happened in Florida, in Orlando, in Vegas, in Kentucky, et al… she reverts back to fear…..
18 school shooting thus far this years… It’s Feb 16, that’s 47 calendar days….. that’s approximately 32 school days this years… almost 1 shooting every other day.
Did you guys ever see “Who killed the Electric Car: documentary?. (The EV1) in the 1990’s the oil lobby encouraged the recall and repossession of these cars… GM went to each registered car owner, repossessed the cars and smashed them… think there’s maybe 1 or 2 left (Jay Leno has 1)
why not do the same for these AR-15s? Stop selling them, find the registered owners, buy them back, if the registered owners claim it’s lost fine them $100K
This shit is getting old. It’s not only affecting the dead kids and their families, it’s affects everyone.
The other day, I was at a traffic light, the light turned green and the guy in front of us didn’t move as he was checking his phone. I honked my horn as a reminder to move……., my wife then said “don’t do that, he might have a gun and shoot us”
Fuck that….
