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call-me-maggie13 · 1 year

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My late 40s to early 50s boss just asked what’s wrong with 18-25 year olds these days

And as a 21 year old all I could think was

The world has been on fire since we were born and we’ve been told the adults are putting it out and now we’re old enough to realize they’ve been pouring kerosene on the flames instead of water.

Before my first birthday, 9/11 happened and the world wouldn’t let us forget it. When I was 6 years old, on September 11th, my teacher sat us down in front of a tv and showed us footage of 9/11 and then told us we weren’t allowed to cry. She said that it was real and those were real people jumping from the building because jumping was a faster death than burning.

When I was 7 years old, the economy collapsed and my family went from lower middle class to poverty, we went from healthy home cooked meals every night to mac and cheese and beans for weeks in a row. We started skipping holidays because mom and dad couldn’t keep the lights on and buy us new toys. We started wearing clothes and shoes until they fell apart.

When I was 11 years old, Sandy Hook was attacked by a grown man with a gun and 26 children and teachers were brutally murdered. My teachers never looked at us the same and I haven’t felt safe in a school since. After that, once a month we would have active shooter drills and we were taught to fight and cause as much damage as possible if an armed man entered our classroom because it gave other classes a few extra seconds to escape, it gave our siblings a few extra breaths of safety. We were taught to cover ourselves in other students blood and play dead if we weren’t hit, we were taught that we weren’t safe and we wouldn’t be safe as long as we were in school.

When I was 15 years old, my high school art teacher locked us in the classroom and told us if we heard gunshots we should line the desks up lengthwise so that they reached the other wall because that would be harder to break through than a barricade. She told us that she knew about the threats and she wouldn’t judge any of us that wanted to leave. She told us to get our siblings and stay in the buildings as long as possible, to duck in between the cars so we couldn’t be seen until we got to ours. She told us about the trail behind the auto shop that was lined with trees and led off campus. I got my brother and his friends and we left, we spent the day sitting on the floor in my living room waiting for a phone call that the people we left behind were dying.

Two weeks later, one of my friends dragged me out of a football game and forced me to go home with him. He grabbed my brothers and my best friend and forced the six of us into a two seater car before he would tell us anything. His mom worked for the school board and had told him the police found an active bomb under the bleachers in the student section, and they weren’t informing anyone because they didn’t want to incite panic.

When I was 16 years old, ISIS set off a bomb at a pop concert in Britain and killed 22 people, injuring at least 100 more. The next day at school, our teachers went over how to stay safe if we ever experienced something like that. They told us the most important thing to remember was to not remove any shrapnel because it could be keeping us from bleeding out, they said it was more important to get yourself out safely before you worried about anyone else.

When I was 18 years old, my teachers stopped teaching and put the news up on the projector and we watched as the Notre-Dame burned. The boy I had sat next to since second grade spent the entire day trying to call his sister who was studying abroad in Paris, I watched this kid I had never even seen frown fall apart in English because she wouldn’t pick up the phone. We didn’t know it at the time, but she was okay.

Six months later, my history teacher put the news on the projector again for another fire. This time, we watched as an entire continent burned for three months. We watched their sky turned orange from the smoke and their wildlife drowned in pools because they were trying to escape the heat.

When I was 19 years old, the whole world shut down because of a global pandemic. I didn’t meet a single new person for eight months, despite the fact that I had just moved across the country. I watched as people didn’t wear masks and spread it to everyone around them, I was so scared when I went back to my room every night because my roommate was immunocompromised and I was terrified I would give her Covid and kill her.

Just two months later, I watched a video of a black man being murdered by police officers. I watched the world around me explode after George Floyd’s death, people destroying businesses and police stations. I watched some of my friends realize police officers didn’t exist to keep them safe, they existed to keep the people in power in power. I learned that some of the people I had grown up with would rather watch a black man die than admit that maybe, maybe, the system was broken.

When I was 20 years old, I went to the mall with a friend to buy a birthday present and I was pulled to the ground by a twelve-year-old girl after gunshots went off in the mall. I held this child’s hands as she cried for two hours until we were evacuated by police, and then I waited with her outside and helped her look for her mom. I gave her my phone to call her mom and I watched as she called the number over and over and never got a reply. I waited with her until a police officer took her to the station to try to find out more information about the girl’s mom, I hugged this girl I had never seen before and I wished her the best. I never found out what happened to her or her mom, it keeps me up at night sometimes worrying that this little girl was orphaned.

When I was 21 years old, I started working at a daycare and exactly a week later, Uvalde happened and I found myself crying because my students are the same age those kids were. When they came in after school the next day, one of them had asked me if I had heard about Uvalde and I told her I had, I asked her if she was scared of going to school because of it. Her reply broke my heart. “We practice for it every week so that when it happens to us, we know what to do. I’m just worried that the shooter is going to start in my baby sister’s classroom and not mine.” I listened as other students with younger siblings agreed with her, one of them saying “I would take fifty bullets, if I had to to keep my little brother safe.”

Early this year, I watched Russia launched bombs into Ukraine, blowing up churches and schools and hospitals and apartment buildings. I watched as the estimated death count rose from the hundreds to the thousands to the tens of thousands. I watched men send their wives and children to bordering countries for refuge while they stayed behind to fight, knowing they would probably never see each other again.

Just four months ago, I watched as my right to medical privacy got taken away. I watched my old roommate fall apart because she was denied the right to have her dead fetus removed from her body for almost two days, I worried every time I looked away from her that the next time I saw her would be in a casket. I watched as the women around me realized the military-grade weapons that had torn children in classrooms apart were protected by the government but our bodies weren’t.

There is nothing “wrong” with my generation, we’ve experienced all these things as children and were expected to respond with patriotism for a country that continuously sacrificed their children for the “right” to military-grade weapons, that took away my freedom of choice. We are tired, we were told the world was a wonderful place then shown, at every step, how the world was a place of destruction and pain. And we are angry. We are angry because no one but us seems to be trying to fix anything. And we are scared. We are scared because our children, our nieces and nephews, our cousins and our friends children are growing up in a world that won’t protect them.

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 2 years

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mysharona1987 · 2 years

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#lgbtq #uvalde #trans #news #texas #texas shooting #politics #schools

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apas-95 · 2 years

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New footage of cops at Uvalde has come out. Timestamps let us see that, at 12:36, while a child desperately pleaded with 911 to send police, the cops were in fact milling around in the hallway outside, doing nothing.

Evidently, they were too busy looking up Punisher logos on their phones.

Or getting a squirt of hand sanitiser.

Keep in mind that, while this was happening, children were bleeding out. When suffering traumatic injury, survival rates drastically increase if a person can be taken to a hospital within the 'golden hour' after it occurs - the cops were pissing that time away.

#uvalde #school shooting #mass shooting #guns #shooting

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prolifeproliberty · 2 years

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Things you may have missed from the Texas Senate Hearing if you haven’t kept up with Uvalde coverage

- The classroom door was unlocked, and could not have been locked from the inside by the shooter

- The police did not try to open the classroom door

- The police had ballistic shields

- The police waited for 77 minutes

- The police restrained, detained, and arrested parents who tried to go in to save their children, including Rubin Ruiz

- Rubin Ruiz is a police officer for the school district. He was also the husband of Eva Mireles, one of the teachers who was killed. Eva called her husband, saying that she had been shot and was dying.

- Ruiz tried to go in to save his wife, but was detained and disarmed.

Tell me again why the police should be the only ones with guns.

#uvalde #uvalde shooting #gun control #2a #coward cops

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b0bthebuilder35 · 2 years

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THIS 👏🏻IS 👏🏻NOT 👏🏻OK👏🏻

Children should not have to live like this!

Where are the parents protesting masks in school because it would traumatize their children? Is THIS not a trauma inducing practice?!

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socialjusticeinamerica · 3 months

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#Tex-ass cops are cowards #corrupt big belly southern sheriffs #ACAB #Uvalde #mass shooting #school shooting #republican assholes #the nra is a terrorist organization #fuck the nra #nra owns gop #National Russia Association #assault weapons ban #AR-15 is for small dick Republicans #Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz will suck the Devil’s c-ck in Hell #guns are the leading cause of death for children

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fandomsandfeminism · 2 years

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I don't know if yall have been following it, but the fact that we are learning more and more about just how badly the police fucked up in Uvalde, and the lies they told in the initial reports, is all just fucking insane.

Lying about where the schools SO was and that he tried to stop the shooter from entering (The SO was off campus when the shooter entered.)

That the police sat around for *40 minutes* while the shooter was in the joined classroom *with the kids* (we are getting reports now that kids were actively calling 911 from the joined room begging for help, and still the cops waited around for a Border Patrol swat team to show up).

Witnesses are saying that parents, trying to get the police to actually *go into the school* were handcuffed and pepper sprayed by police.

Then you have the police straight up ignoring the Spanish language journalists at the press conference and no one being there to translate (80% of the town is Hispanic).

And Greg Abbott saying that "it could have been worse"

How could it have been worse, Abbott? What does that mean? Go on, say it. What would have made this worse?

#uvalde #school shooting #gun violence

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republicansaredomesticterrorists · 2 months

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#uvalde #republican assholes #the nra is a terrorist organization #gun violence #Mass shooting #school shooting #gun crime #AR-15 #assault weapons ban #Greg Abbott fails Texas #Ted Cruz NRA stooge #senseless gun deaths #resist #maga morons #republican values

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gratefulfrog · 2 years

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#el arroyo #el arroyo sign #Texas #rock bottom #uvalde #somethings gotta give #gun control #another day another school shooting #thoughts and prayers clearly aren’t working #vote #vote like your life depends on it #vote like your child’s life depends on it

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pugzman3 · 2 years

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It's called a psyop. The world is a stage.

#texas shooting #texas #uvalde

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whatareyoureallyafraidof · 2 years

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mysharona1987 · 2 years

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#Texas #greg abbott #uvalde #news #guns #gun violence #buffalo shooting #republicans #politics

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teenagecriminalmastermind · 2 years

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Fuck the NRA, and fuck every politician who takes their blood money.

TW: Gun Violence

EIGHTEEN elementary school aged children are gone. 18 sets of parents will never see their kids again, 18 families destroyed. I’m so fucking sick of the NRA pretending like their funded legislation is saving lives.

Anyone who says that this is why we need more guns needs to reconcile themselves with the fact that they too, are okay with little kids being murdered; literally nothing else but stringent gun control is gonna stop this. Columbine wasn’t enough, sandy hook wasn’t enough, parkland wasn’t enough, oxford wasn’t enough and neither will this be.

How can pro gun law supporters reconcile their humanity with these beliefs? there’s more than ample proof that the NRA funded pro gun legislation has done absolutely nothing to curb homicides, but on the contrary increased them.

You’re making deadly weapons accessible to teenagers whose brains aren’t done fully forming. who, in the heat of their emotions, might commit irreparable damage - we don’t let kids DRINK until 21, yet you’re arguing that they have the mental faculties to handle a literal weapon?

Legislators keep complaining about how hard it is to gain bipartisan support, but how hard can it be to gain support for basic humanity? You have been elected to do this arduous task, sworn in to serve the people you represent.

The people you represent don't want bodies riddled with bullet holes, they want their loved ones to come home at the end of the day. And if you believe that staying in power with the aid of death-mongers like Wayne LaPierre and the National Rifle Association is more important than innocent lives, then I hope you remember that you are replacable. The dead are not replacable, but you are.

So do your fucking jobs, or get the fuck out.

#I am so so mad about this #i'm so fucking over this #so tired #and exhausted #tw gun violence #tw school shooting #HOW MANY MORE KIDS HAVE TO DIE?#tumblr #texas #uvalde #gun violence

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queerism1969 · 1 year

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odinsblog · 2 years

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This is heartbreaking

#politics #guns #uvalde #texas #robb elementary school shooting #gun violence #gun nuts #robb elementary school #robb elementary shooting

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