#uvalde school shooting

[call-me-maggie13]

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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[queenhelenblackthorn]

There is no amount of money in the world that could make me step foot in Texas. And I honestly feel sorry for the people who have no other choice than to live there.

#texas #gun violence #greg abbott #us politics #texas school shooting #uvalde school shooting

[defundthepolicedestroythegop]

#Uvalde #uvalde massacre #uvalde shooting #uvalde school shooting #robb elementary school #Uvalde police #police incompetence #defund the police

[porterdavis]

#uvalde school shooting

[geezerwench]

Nothing we could have done. Not a thing.

#the volatile mermaid #gun regulations #gun regulation #gun control #gop trash #republican death cult #Republicans #robb elementary school shooting #robb elementary school #Uvalde #uvalde mass shooting #uvalde school shooting #salvador ramos

[sick-puppyy]

#uvalde #uvalde shooting #shooter #gun control #gun violence #us gun control #us gun laws #us gun violence #uvalde school shooting

[cyarskaren52]

Those many officers just stood there, in the hallway, one or two smiled, one sanitized his hands from wall dispenser, all while hearing the children's screams as they were being murdered. They were cowards. 💔

Nwa and rage against the machine were right about the police in America

Anyone who listens to these songs would understand the previous statement

#SoundCloud #Spotify #uvalde texas #uvalde school shooting #gun control #republicans #texas #uvalde county

[strawlessandbraless]

Another Day, Another Mass Shooting in Texas

There have been more mass shootings than days in this year, that’s 192 mass shootings at the time of post. Enough is enough

See full thread with all links on Twitter

#texas #mass shooting #gun control #gun reform #ban assault weapons #allen Texas #2nd amendment #gun violence #greg abbott #Twitter #us politics #current events #thoughts and prayers #uvalde #sandy hook #cleveland texas shooting #uvalde school shooting #uvalde shooting #enough is enough #it’s the guns #nra #f the nra #the nra is a terrorist organization

[thingstrumperssay]

One of the police at Uvalde’s wife was one of the teachers who were killed in the school shooting. I think it was at least 30 minutes in when he got the text from his wife saying “I’m dying” when he decided to try to do something, but he was stopped by the other police. (I didn’t watch the full thing. I’m just going off of what others are saying right now. I might edit this if I find out the exact time stamp.)

The cop was detained, had his gun taken away from him and escorted out of the building. From trying to save his wife from a shooter.

Also he had a stupid Punisher logo with the American flag on it, which is both ironic and also kind of telling.

#the punisher #punisher #uvalde #uvalde police #acab #texas #all cops are bastards #eva mireles #uvalde school shooting #uvalde school massacre

[wildfeather5002]

" Women, don't worry about the abortion ban! The excess children will be killed off in the next school shooting. " - conservative dickheads in America

#abortion #roe v wade #fuck pro lifers #fuck conservatives #anger #abortion rights #womens rights #pro choice #pro life #pro life should be called pro suffering #uvalde school shooting #school shooting #suffering

[queenhelenblackthorn]

I'm so serious when I say that if I had the money and power to just pick up and leave this country I absolutely would.

#news #tw mass shootings #tw death #tw gun violence #texas #texas school shooting #uvalde school shooting #gun violence

[defundthepolicedestroythegop]

That's not even an exaggeration of what's going on.

Piggy really does have a Punisher wallpaper on his phone.

Good thing they removed the sounds of children screaming from the video, or it might actually be damning or something.

#Uvalde #uvalde police #defund the police #defund the fucking police #uvalde massacre #uvalde texas #uvalde school shooting #texas #gun violence

[porterdavis]

#uvalde #uvalde school shooting

[amysubmits]

#jason isbell #save the world #gun violence #school shootings #uvalde school shooting

[manyfandomsonelog]

Keep seeing people say 14 children and 1 teacher on here, but from what I’ve seen those numbers are outdated. Now the news is saying 19 children and 2 teachers. 21 people killed. It’s important to remember all of them.

#Texas #uvalde school shooting #death mention #child death #school shooting mention #gun violence

[cyarskaren52]

Remembering the 21 angels of #Uvalde. 🦋♥️

Moms told 20/20 they liked visiting murals honoring the 21 lives lost at Robb Elementary because they preserved joys the victims left behind.

Stream 20/20 ‘It Happened Here – A Year in Uvalde’ on hulu

#uvalde texas #republicans #texas #uvalde county #uvalde school shooting #gun control