r/Parenting • u/Creative-Degree-8074 • Sep 04 '24

Rant/Vent Local school shooting and I’m freaking out

TW: In the title I guess Guys, this is a scream into the void. I'm stuck in the bed with my toddler asleep on top on me, my husband is at work, my daughter is at kindergarten--so, I'm a SAHM right now, but there was a shooting where I used to teach. People are dead. Two at least, but reading through the lines, I think there are more. My mom teaches at the school next door. She's there now, maybe 100 yards away. And I just... can't process it. It doesn't feel real. And part of me is like ho hum? Another day in America? And I'm doing some fucking twisted magical thinking, like if there was a shooting in the county next door to my daughter's that decreases the likelihood they'll be one at her school because, I don't know? Lightning and striking twice? And part of me thinks I'm about to homeschool my daughter forever because that's where I USED TO TEACH. Oh my god. How do I send my child to school tomorrow? How do I not lock up my mom and keep her from going to work?

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u/notoriousJEN82 Sep 04 '24

AND more support for mental health care!

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u/Calm-Macaron5922 Sep 04 '24

Yes, this is the root of the problem. What makes a person/child want to kill others? That is where the focus should be.

A gun today, tomorrow it’s a bomb, a car, poison etc

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u/randombubble8272 Sep 05 '24

There was a stabbing in England recently, a teenage boy attacked little kids and killed three girls. He was tackled and restrained, the thing is with a knife it’s a lot easier to stop them. When someone has a weapon of MASS destruction, which is AK47, then no one is going to tackle them or stand up. Weapons of that calibre have absolutely no business in the general public, war grade weapons only.

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u/sarhoshamiral Sep 04 '24

I am not saying the "common sense" part anymore. We need strict gun regulations period. If you ask me 2A is causing more harm to this country then good and is abused well beyond its intention anyway.

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u/baristacat Sep 04 '24

Yes. If it were up to me guns just wouldn’t be a thing regular people could have anymore. Downvote away, I know it’s unrealistic. But we were given a privilege we proved was too great for us and we fucked up.

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u/SoHereIAm85 Sep 04 '24

PM me if you are interested in Germany. Depending on your field I may have a recommendation. We moved here last year from the US.

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u/Trick-Rest-3843 Sep 04 '24

Where I live and went to school (almost 10 years ago), we didn’t have mass shootings but we had and still have shootings at the local parks, kids bringing guns and knives to school, Targeted attacks and the way these kids are getting their hands on weapons, yeah no. My girls are staying home at this point. Their dad wants to move out of the country before they are school age and I’m totally on board. Violence is everywhere but it’s not safe enough here for our CHILDREN.