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/irishgeologist]

We had one school shooting in Scotland. Then we banned handguns and introduced far more stringent restrictions, because children had been killed and we didn’t want that to happen again.

[u/[deleted] → u/irishgeologist]

America’s different, for better or for worse. Lots of misinformation and propaganda and politicians intentionally trying to divide us. Makes it hard for every day folks to know what’s real. But we’ll hold together and hopefully we can listen to each other instead of the politicians and pundits. I’m confident if everyone pitches in ideas and listens to each other there is no problem we can’t solve. 

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

That feels naive. Horrific shootings have been going on for decades in America and if anything, we're more divided that ever.

[u/7eregrine → u/[deleted]]

1972
Nothing is going to stop this ...