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I hate how desensitized I am to these things. The thing that surprised me most in the coverage is that they went back to school on Aug 1st 
they went back to school on Aug 1st
When I was working at a 7-11 a decade ago a friend of mine was killed in a murder suicide by her ex and they had the store open again within an hour of the crime scene cleanup crew leaving and all my boss told me was "you can take tomorrow off if you need to".
mfer died of a heart attack a few years ago and I fuckin hope it was the longest most excruciating heart attack death on record.
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I remember when Columbine was still the shooting, and basically the only major one for nearly a decade until the Virginia Tech one, then Sandy Hook...then the dam burst
It is wild those kids were nazis and they blamed it on quake.
Quake might have had something yo do with it if the kids bunnyhopped to avoid return fire. However the cops at the time were still on dial up so their lag was so abd they couldn't compete.
And look how well that's turned out, we still have school shootings but the cops are too busy shooting black teenagers in the back.And with "only" four deaths this one will be forgotten about in a week.
That's why I was hesitant to even post this because it was only four killed, but I feel like this is a nice reminder of the terminal rot decline of the empire amid all the promises of Madam President Copmala to "fix" everything.
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There was a school shooting near where I live and it didn't even make the news, it was just an email to the parents of the district.
How long before they just stop caring completely and the only notice you get is when your kid doesn’t come home
Bleak
I wonder if there's been an academic study of how covid changed what's considered "newsworthy" by network news. For example imagine a pre-covid situation where X is the minimum number of people to be killed in a random mass shooting so it's broadcast live on MSNBC. And X is ~3 or whatever. Is that still the case now that the public thinks covid is over and they're massively desensitized to death?
Is X the same or larger? My wild hunch is X is larger now.
So good to be back to normal after a summer spent funding school bombings
School bombings abroad, school shootings at home, the true American way
In communist north korea the people are so abused and powerless they take out violent revenge on school children 
I am at the point where I read these headlines and feel absolutely nothing
I'm feeling the contradictions today and it's really pissing me off.
i was there but now i am a parent so i hope they solve school shootings within 12 years
The sooner you abobdon that hope the less dissappointed you will be - parent who dropped their third grader off for the first time this morning
Best you can hope for is you get the dumbest cop in the county and hope it's not your daughter they try to pursue a relationship with
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I don’t know why but I feel like I care more and more about each one that happens
I used to not really gaf but reality is setting in that this is a real thing, that the kids are not alright
Yea people love to talk shit about the youngest generation but they're unironically more heroic than your average Vietnam vet just for being willing to go to school everyday and be willing sacrifices to America's gun culture.
If my daughter told me she wasn't fucking going to school because nobody was doing anything to prevent her from being target practice I'd have a hard time coming up with a rebuttal.
School days without a school shooting: ~~1~~ 0
I want to see more people joke about trump understanding the youth of today because he too has been shot at. Cause like, this just sucks too much to emotionally enguage with earnestly
Looks like school shooting season is back
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School resource officer engaged with shooter and took him into custody, sheriff says
The resource officer at Apalachee High School engaged with the shooter and took him into custody, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith told reporters.
“Obviously the shooter was armed and our school resource officer engaged him and the shooter quickly realized that if he did not give up, that it would end with an OIS — an Officer Involved Shooting. He gave up, got on the ground and the deputy took him into custody,” Smith said.
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MSNBC just said he's 14 and he was a student at the school.
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A white cop talking to the media said "Hate will not prevail in our community." I don't know the context or who he was. But I wonder if the shooter was a minority.
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Winder, Georgia CNN — The 14-year-old suspect in the fatal mass shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school has been identified as Colt Gray, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said at an afternoon news conference.
The suspect is a student at the school who will be charged with murder and will be handled as an adult as he moves through the criminal justice system, Hosey and Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith added.
Doing an image search for "Colt Gray" gives results for guns and nothing else (for now). Nominative determinism at work
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oh shit I used to live near-ish there. it's like halfway between Atlanta and Athens (UGA). like an upjumped commuter town that got just big enough to rate having hospitals and shit like that. wack.
Feels ghoulish to even talk about an ongoing tragedy this way, but I do find it curious that the shooter surrendered. Seems like that rarely happens in these situations.
Fuck this country.
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