Bullied Everyday. Never shot up a school

[sheshe2]

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@UmbopaFinest
Replying to
@notcapnamerica

[cilla4progress]

1. My heart stopped sheshe2...

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[walkingman]

2. It is not mental health issues.....

All countries have plenty of mental health issues among their citizens, and they don't have massacres.

For decades the firearms manufacturers and Republican leaders have convinced white people that they need to buy arsenals to protect themselves from people of color. And more recently, thanks in part to various shootings perpetrated by those heavily armed white people, people of color have responded by arming themselves in greater numbers.

This is America, folks. This is who we are.

I wish it were not this way. But this is the country we’ve chosen for ourselves, and it is not changing anytime soon.

[calimary]

3. I've actually toyed with the idea of relocating to Canada.

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But I think I’m too old to be allowed to do it.

But, gotta say, I DO NOT want to be in ANY way, ANY part of the madness that’s seized this country now.

This is NOT the America I (thought I) knew.

[Initech]

6. Since January 6th, I have felt like that was a "shit hitting the fan" moment.

Honestly since then I have not felt safe in this country. Hell I haven't felt safe since like 2018. I feel like the NRA has made us all sitting ducks for the next mass shooting. And the one after that. If things got worse, I would actually look at relocating to New Zealand or Australia.

[groundloop]

7. It's not nearly as easy to move there as many people seem to think.....

When I get super frustrated with how things are here I look at what it would take to move to other countries, mostly just to kill time. Unless you have a high demand skill and can get a job there it's pretty difficult.

Portugal is possibly a good one to look at, there are many ex-pats there. A guy I used to work with retired to Portugal and is loving it.

[calimary]

11. Hmmm ... never thought of Portugal.

Hmmmm …

[Initech]

22. Ah I do have one advantage though.

Is that I am applying to universities starting in August. And depending on how things go there, I could apply for a student visa. So I do have that option.

[calimary]

9. Yeah. I think those would be my go-to's also.

Only problem is the colossal distance that’d put between our kids and us. And we don’t know anybody there anyway - although if we got discouraged enough, that probably wouldn’t matter as much, anymore.

And I am already discouraged and depressed - and disappointed in myself enough that I’m even thinking these thoughts, in the first place!

I heard a news report that many African-Americans have actually left the U.S., and relocated elsewhere. My thoughts were A) what a shame that is, and B) wish I was going with ‘em.

[walkingman]

19. My DW and I have talked about it for the last five years. Age, healthcare, and family are

our biggest obstacles. I have despises Texas politics for decades and it just seems to get worse and worse.

Like the responses to your post mention it has become just a dream for us but I really did not want to spend our remaining years like this - sucks.

[housecat]

4. Everyone in that crowd is ugly. Inside and out

[Hekate]

8. I saw those photos in real time as a child, and never forgot those faces

Somewhere along the road I hope the whites in those photos — they and/or their children — saw themselves like that and felt a flush of shame.

Stranger things have happened.

[calimary]

12. One can hope.

I see those photos and feel embarrassed to be white.

Sometimes I’ve even fantasized about looking up that woman (if she’s still alive) and other African-American students of that era and apologizing personally to each of them. Don’t know how, in reality, that would be possible at this point. I guess maybe that’s why I spend so much of my time advocating for change. Seems like the least I can do.

[Hekate]

13. Seriously

[Lonestarblue]

15. And they called themselves good Christians at the time.

Any of them attended Southern Baptist churches that supported the KKK and preached racist hatred on Sunday morning. I had hoped those days were behind us, but white supremacy and religious extremism have once again reared their ugly heads.

[erronis]

20. Now that the Q's have taken over the SBC, they are all annointed as "good christians"

Every western religion I know of ends up skewering itself in righteousness and hatred of others.

[Initech]

5. I went through some horrible bullying in high school.

But did I ever even think to buy a gun and go shoot up a classroom? Fucking hell no.

[cab67]

16. Same here.

Bullying started in first grade, and continued through my first two years of high school.

Even if I HAD wanted to do something like that - and for the record, it never crossed my mind - the urge would have been to target those who bullied me. Not much younger kids.

[NNadir]

10. One of the best posts of this tragic shooting week. I regret to advise you...

...to post it for the next one. There will be, as much as we hate to think of it, a next one.

[sheshe2]

17. I hear you, NNadir.

[erronis]

21. Sad. And true.

My good physicist.

[llashram]

14. yep++

[maxsolomon]

18. It's not even the bullying.

SOME adolescent male brains are prone to this homicidal ideation.