Daughter of Sandy Hook shooting survivor on Charlie Kirk’s death by gun violence

Clocked it.

Amen to that queen

You live by your principles, you gotta die by them too.

If guns aren’t the problem and people are the problem then why do you want the problem to have access to guns?

Prioritizing white fears: The political inertia against national gun legislation can be seen as prioritizing the fears and anxieties of a white public over the safety and well-being of communities of color. The focus on the “rights of armed individuals” ignores the devastating costs of gun violence borne by marginalized communities as well as children doing live shooter drills.

Dems need to introduce the “Charlie gun reform” bill and make them vote on it

Preach.

Even if it’s mental health, even if that’s the case, (not that it is the case but even if it is), I don’t see politicians advocating for mental health care for people.

Sandy Hook turned me from agnostic to straight out Atheist.

Republicans don’t care. There were crickets for the actual innocent children that were shot the same day at their school, but immediately Republicans want to immortalize Kirk with a tax payer funded god damn statue in The Capital. Fuck the Republican Party and fuck everyone who keeps voting for them I hope they all have the life they deserve.

I wish I didn’t resonate so much with her message. But as a survivor of a school shooting myself I’m so sick and tired of “Thoughts and Prayers.”
I’m so sick of moments of silence. I’m so sick of this unfortunate club of ours getting bigger and bigger every year.

If you’ve never been in a mass shooting, or lived in a community impacted by one, you do not understand what it’s like every time one of these happens. The way it dredges up all the negative thoughts and feelings again, how it reopens old wounds and re-traumatizes those who’ve been through it. We talk about how the whole Epstein stuff re-traumatizes the victims, but we seldom talk about how mass shootings do that for a large chunk of the survivors.

I’ve gone through therapy. I’ve had decades since my own shooting to process and heal and get to a better place. But some wounds don’t fully heal.

And they keep happening. Like the woman in this video, I go numb when I hear about these shootings. I’m so desensitized that I just feel resignation. Sadness. Every shooting people say, “maybe this time it’ll be different. Maybe this time we’ll make a difference!” While pundits offer their “thoughts and prayers”. The media frenzies, people get riled up, politicians make grandiose statements and offer their condemnations, but then the attention dies down, the furor calms, and people move on. While the communities impacted are left trying to heal and recover and process what has happened to them. A process which can take decades and leaves the victims mentally and emotionally scarred, even if they weren’t directly involved.

I’m so tired of watching the cycle again and again. Tired of watching the political performances that will amount to nothing again and again. Tired of how the media demonizes people who weren’t even involved. A trans person committed a shooting and suddenly the entirety of the trans community gets blamed for it, and the administration threatens to take away our right to bear arms as a result. Shit like that.

What happened to Charlie Kirk was a tragedy. He was a shitty person who advocated shitty things and people are rightfully upset, and he does not deserve the praise and respect he is being given. But all those people at that university? They will hear this trauma for years. Perhaps even the rest of their lives. No one talks about the students who witnessed his death first hand. A political pundit died, and an entire school just had their sense of safety shattered. Whatever you may think of Kirk, remember the people who suffered cause of his murderer.

She’s so brave and articulate. I don’t think anything will change for the better though, I think things may escalate instead.

They’ll increase security for themselves. I think the rest of us are still on our own.

Practically speaking, there has never been legislation proposed that would have banned or restricted bolt-action hunting rifles like the one used in Kirk’s assassination.

I understand the sentiment, but what gun control law and how it would be enforced is beyond me.