We’re at a point where we are literally begging for children’s lives to be saved. Children. Murdered at school. And yet again, Republicans will hide behind their thoughts and prayers and continue to fantasize about the potential of the unborn, instead of lifting a finger to protect the real living children who went to school today and didn’t come home because allegedly “pro-life” adults prioritized guns over people again and again and again and again.
Sorry, I know not everyone wants to see this on here, it’s just going to be really hard to walk into work tomorrow and look my students in the eye after literally spending the night wondering when it will happen to us, which classroom it will be, whose parents will have to live through the nightmare, whether I’ll live and be traumatized forever or die trying to protect them. It just fucking sucks.
I went to everytown.org because at least they’re trying to do something about it.
Senator Chris Murphy is also at least trying to do something about it and has been trying for the decade since Sandy Hook. You should hear what he has to say. His words at least felt something like how I feel today.
I just don’t know how people function in a society where we just keep letting this happen. Like, what the fuck? They’re too young to know about the gays but not too young to watch their classmates get murdered in cold blood? What is wrong with this fucking country. Only country where this happens. Keeps happening. What a fucking nightmare we live in. I hate it here.
We can’t let this pass us by. We can’t forget again and then say every year on the anniversary, oh yeah it was sad that those kids died and no one did anything about it. Imagine how those families feel today. Their children were alive this morning. We have to get mad about this and stay mad about it and stay focused on the problem. The problem is guns. There is no rational reason that we cannot have gun control. There is no rational reason not to have basic gun safety. It is a choice. In Texas, Greg Abbott chose guns over people. If you are going to vote on any one issue in 2022, make it gun control. Don’t forget again. Save lives.
