“I am not OK, and the truth is I don’t ever want to be OK. I want to keep that lobby in my heart and mind as a reminder. I want the memory of that day to continue to be as raw and as brutal as it was on Dec. 1, 1997, until none of our children has to experience it for themselves. Our thoughts and prayers are not enough to stop this. I can’t sit still and wallow in this tragedy anymore. I have to act. And I hope you will join me.”
These words are from a Courier Journal opinion piece written by Hollan Holm, a survivor of the Heath High School shooting in response to the Marshall County shooting 20 years later. I am so full of emotions that right now it is easier to use the words of others. The ripples of these terrible mass shootings are far reaching and last forever.
So sad for this school, church, community, and quite honestly all of us. Society has changed over the past 50 years… social media, isolation, political extremism (both sides), a continued narrative about all things negative and divisive from our leaders and the media. This person was evil period.
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50 years?? Perhaps it was and the only reason I see it now is social media.
Was the person evil or did society make them evil? People have a breaking point.
All we know about the person is and I may have this wrong - but was born a male but living or feeling as a girl. Why do I care? That’s not my business.
But this is where gender matters - because of morons like who make it an issue where one never existed. Perhaps if people can be “free” in a free country, they might not resort to the things they do…but that said, we don’t know what played a part so it’s speculating.
Today, the TN senate is expected to take up a bill to arm teachers in school - something law enforcement is dead set against - but hey, what does law enforcement know about guns??
“Our trans youth are troubled,” Tim Burchett told Fox News Digital in a late Monday statement. “If they don’t get the help they need they can grow up to have some serious issues, but I obviously don’t believe they’ll all grow up to be shooters like this.”
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Here, too in Colorado believe it or not- each high school classroom open to outside.
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No. It is not society’s fault that a person becomes a psychopathic mass murderer. I do not care what injustices or slights they feel they have suffered-people are accountable for the harm they cause.
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We will just have to disagree. I believe some people are indeed evil, regardless of whether they were born or matured to be that way. Adults have agency over their actions. They can choose to be empathetic or violent in their actions. I have no problem concluding a mass shooter is indeed a bad apple and likely was for many years, and that we need to do more to protect ourselves from such apples, particularly with respect to licensing weapons accesss.
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The answer is not more security at schools as suggested above somewhere. How absurd. I don’t know about any of you, but within a 5 minutes drive of my home, aside from an elementary, middle and high school, we have about 5 churches that act as preschools. Should they all have armed guards? Parkland and Uvalde had armed resource officers.
The answer isn’t to turn our schools into prisons. Movie theaters, restaurants, clubs, concerts, grocery stores, malls, parks, churches - these shootings happen everywhere. Do some really think the solution is more guns?
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Few think the answer is more guns, but the logistical issue of how to deal with the 300 million currently in circulation can be overwhelming.
I’d start by making it much harder to get a gun in one’s hands. If we had started taking gun policy seriously after Sandy Hook, would we be in a better place today? I think so.
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The thread has received (probably not surprisingly) an excessive number of flags. Since the discussion has basically shifted to a gun policy conversation, I’ll direct you to that conversation and close this thread.
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/t/the-politics-of-gun-control-what-are-should-be-the-limitations-on-the-second-amendment/3621169/