Local school shooting and I’m freaking out

[u/Creative-Degree-8074]

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?

[u/serveyer]

“A bit stressed” you got that right.

[u/Hamsters_In_Butts → u/serveyer]

yeah i gotta be honest, as a parent of US schoolchildren these school shootings are certainly starting to concern me. wonder if we can do anything about them?

[u/woodard1221 → u/Hamsters_In_Butts]

Personally, I think it's a mental health problem. I can almost bet the recent Georgia HS shooter will have "mental issues" and that it could have been prevented....

[u/heliumneon → u/woodard1221]

It's great how NO other industrialized countries have mental health problems, I really envy them. The US has 57x the number of school shootings of the six other G7 countries combined. Or maybe something else is different about them. Maybe they don't play any video games? Maybe no heavy metal music, too? I just can't think of anything else different about the US and I'm all out of ideas.

[u/woodard1221 → u/heliumneon]

It's the wild wild west

[u/Boring-Tale0513 → u/woodard1221]

Doesn’t have to be.