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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts) Wed Feb 21, 2018, 02:53 PM Feb 2018

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I hope I'm not the only one who's gobsmacked by "school shooting" becoming a part of...

the lexicon and being so causally mentioned.

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I hope I'm not the only one who's gobsmacked by "school shooting" becoming a part of... (Original Post) TreasonousBastard Feb 2018 OP

Which one? There have been 18 so far. guillaumeb Feb 2018 #1

8 lame54 Feb 2018 #5

Your point being that eight mass killings is easier to normalize? LanternWaste Feb 2018 #9

18 is incorrect - 8 is correct... lame54 Feb 2018 #10

There have been 239 school shootings since Sandy Hook 2012. BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #7

I am gobsmacked and heartbroken Siwsan Feb 2018 #2

I am too... wcmagumba Feb 2018 #3

Yesterday as I was researching a post crazycatlady Feb 2018 #4

The lowest common denominator Turbineguy Feb 2018 #6

These kids have seen more combat than 90% of our lawmakers world wide wally Feb 2018 #8

How much the footage from Parkland looked exactly like that from Columbine floored me. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2018 #11

"The latest school shooting" Rustynaerduwell Feb 2018 #12

Much like the idea that TheSmarterDog Feb 2018 #13

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

1. Which one? There have been 18 so far.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 02:54 PM

Feb 2018

Amazing what people can normalize.

lame54

(35,294 posts)

5. 8

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 03:00 PM

Feb 2018

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

9. Your point being that eight mass killings is easier to normalize?

Reply to lame54 (Reply #5)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 03:16 PM

Feb 2018

Your point being that eight mass killings is easier to normalize, or was your substantive addition merely a vacuous truth fallacy?

Lame, indeed.

lame54

(35,294 posts)

10. 18 is incorrect - 8 is correct...

Reply to LanternWaste (Reply #9)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 03:18 PM

Feb 2018

That is all

BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)

7. There have been 239 school shootings since Sandy Hook 2012.

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 03:06 PM

Feb 2018

438 people shot, 138 killed Nationwide #ENOUGH

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/15/us/school-shootings-sandy-hook-parkland.html

Here is what YOU can do to support gun control.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10112196

Siwsan

(26,268 posts)

2. I am gobsmacked and heartbroken

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 02:55 PM

Feb 2018

And I'm looking forward to the days when panic/anxiety attacks are no longer a worry.

wcmagumba

(2,886 posts)

3. I am too...

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 02:56 PM

Feb 2018

should be called something else like NRA assisted death...imo

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)

4. Yesterday as I was researching a post

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 02:58 PM

Feb 2018

I was wondering about the ages of mass shooters, so I was looking up shootings on Wiki. I almost forgot about the Gabby Giffords shootings. It is sad when these things blur together.

Turbineguy

(37,343 posts)

6. The lowest common denominator

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 03:01 PM

Feb 2018

of modern American life.

world wide wally

(21,744 posts)

8. These kids have seen more combat than 90% of our lawmakers

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 03:13 PM

Feb 2018

There is something drastically wrong with that.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)

11. How much the footage from Parkland looked exactly like that from Columbine floored me.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 03:30 PM

Feb 2018

With the students fleeing from the school building in lines with their hands up.

For about 10 years, Columbine was the untouchable bloody standard of school shootings. And now I've found it can happen in my own neighborhood.

Rustynaerduwell

(664 posts)

12. "The latest school shooting"

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 11:10 PM

Feb 2018

"Latest" also means it will happen again.

TheSmarterDog

(794 posts)

13. Much like the idea that

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 11:14 PM

Feb 2018

the GOP has - for, what? About 2 years? - been collaborating with Russian intelligence to take over our government.

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