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Feb. 17th, 2018 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatSigh. Facebook is all about the Florida Shooting. Significant for the following reasons: it's the 18th school shooting this year alone. And we're not even through February yet. !7 people were shot.
And the community had previously been cited as a safe one. And the same gun was used in it as the others an AR-15. My father told my mother that it was the same rifle he used in the military.
They are planning a National School Walkout for all High Schools. I'm thinking it should be all schools around the country, then some woman from my church suggested a work walkout. Seriously? When people suggest this -- I know three things, 1) they work for a non-profit or an organization with like-minded souls who will do it with them, 2) they aren't essential - so no one is going to care that much, 3) they aren't worried about employment or losing their job. In short, they do not work for a hospital, a doctor, the MTA, airlines, fire stations, the police, etc. Also it's frigging easy to suggest a work walkout when you don't have to worry about certain things.
Now, a school walkout has less serious repercussions. (No one is going to die if you decide not to go to school for one day. Nor be prevented from traveling to a much needed appointment or emergency.)
And the community had previously been cited as a safe one. And the same gun was used in it as the others an AR-15. My father told my mother that it was the same rifle he used in the military.
They are planning a National School Walkout for all High Schools. I'm thinking it should be all schools around the country, then some woman from my church suggested a work walkout. Seriously? When people suggest this -- I know three things, 1) they work for a non-profit or an organization with like-minded souls who will do it with them, 2) they aren't essential - so no one is going to care that much, 3) they aren't worried about employment or losing their job. In short, they do not work for a hospital, a doctor, the MTA, airlines, fire stations, the police, etc. Also it's frigging easy to suggest a work walkout when you don't have to worry about certain things.
Now, a school walkout has less serious repercussions. (No one is going to die if you decide not to go to school for one day. Nor be prevented from traveling to a much needed appointment or emergency.)