• ArugulaZ@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    And rightly so, for they have been failed. You can’t even GO TO SCHOOL without concern that you’ll be killed in a mass shooting. This was never a concern for my generation. In 1992, when I graduated, the thought that going to school could be an extinction event for you was not even conceivable. This shouldn’t be an ongoing concern for any generation, yet here we are, sending our kids off to school every morning, knowing that there’s a slim chance they might not come back.

    It’s driving me crazy. But when the whole world’s gone mad, how can you be sure you’re insane?

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      6 months ago

      I graduated in 1997, in a rural town, and I can say that we’ve knives that caused some injuries and scares and while we did have a kid that brought his dad’s handgun to school and threatened people with it, didn’t shoot anyone thankfully. This type of shit was around even in the 90’s just not around the world and in the 24 hour news like it is now, remember we had Columbine just a few years after we graduated in 1999.

      This shit’s been bad for a while now.