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Everyone? This was just shared with me, commentary on this ridiculous bill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=d_Px833tzfs

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

Well, let’s go further and make sure all students from kindergarten on up know how to stop the bleed and apply a tourniquet. Teach them how to dig out the bullets. Show them gory movies so they won’t be so traumatized when a psycho comes into the school to gun them all down. Preparation, preparation, preparation…

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May 3, 2023·edited May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

This is absolutely stunning, and also not surprising. I'll never understand how a human being could introduce a concept like this with a straight face, and yet we all know there are plenty of people out there like this, people who think Wayne LaPierre is some kind of hero.

Emmett Till was in the news again recently--the woman whose lies got Emmett Till lynched just died. That should remind us that Emmett's mom demonstrated exactly how we should address this, exactly how we should fire back if you will. Bring the public face to face with the results of inaction on assault weapons. Publish the crime-scene photos of all the grade-school shootings. And this is important, keep publishing them every time another shooting occurs.

I know...everyone in the U.S. would be permanently traumatized. We would never be able to unsee those images. At the same time, I think we need to see them. We need to own what we have done by doing nothing/not doing enough.

Of course as soon as the initial deluge happened, the politicians on the NRA tit (looking at you, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and all the rest) would work their asses off to redirect...they'd be shocked, shocked! that libtards caused these indecent, pornographic images to be released. And of course they would argue that this just reinforces the case for better lockdowns and more armed guards and good guys with guns in every school and college and movie theater and nightclub and outdoor concert venue in America. There would still be plenty of ammosexuals, just as there are still plenty of unreconstructed racists who would happily lynch Emmett again.

But as the photos continued to be published, I think the tide would begin to turn. The general public--especially the moms in the general public--would no longer be able to see gun nuts as normal. They'd begin to see them as monsters, just as the public came ultimately to see Emmett Till's murderers as monsters. And call me naive, but I believe it would result in real legislative change, hopefully faster than the nine years it took for Emmett's lynching to result in real change. It would be absolutely awful, and absolutely worth it.

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I agree completely. We need to see, absorb, and not move on. I don’t think this is naive. I think it’s entirely necessary.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell
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I do appreciate their concerns. I share them. But this WashPo piece is stunning and everyone should see it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-damage-to-human-body/

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

Thank you. That's the article I was thinking of, not the one I posted.

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No worries. That Post article is incredible.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

Thank you for sharing this article, I don't recall reading it before. I think sharing the photos with consent of families is critically important as the written word seems not to matter. Also I recall a upper manager from the state agency I retired from going to the scene of the slaughter with one of his confidants (a former and present inmate)....to this day that nauseates me!

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Wow.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

I disagree that photos of dead children should be made public. It reopens wounds of the families of the deceased and of those who survived the shooting. It also feeds the sick minds of those who get their kicks from blood & gore. There are other videos that can be made public of the outcomes of a gun blast to an anonymous human’s body. I’m an RN who has seen traumatic injuries of children that I can still see in my mind decades later. Trust me, there are images you do Not need to see or want to remember!

PLEASE hear one of many parents who has lost a child to violence when they say they don’t want pictures of that child published

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/opinion/parents-children-gun-violence.html?smid=url-share

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I appreciate your perspective on this, and I don't think any of this should be forced. I respect the trauma of the families. I'm at a loss as to how to show just how damaging in this violence -- today in Atlanta.

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Agree. Vehemently. The families live with the horror of what has happened to their children as well as the harassment of those who attack them egged on by the far-right.

We know one of the Sandy Hook families. They are extraordinary people - kind, community volunteers who do incredible amounts of work, deeply religious. They stayed on this earth to be parents for their surviving child. They continue to suffer and always will. Another of the fathers who lost a child could no longer bear the pain and died of suicide. Think what such a request asks of the families.

There are other ways to create a video that will demonstrate the effects without releasing those pictures. People who need to see pictures of slaughtered children to understand the horror inflicted by weapons of war are beyond my understanding, but, given that there are so many and they seem incapable of learning without some kind of graphic shock, then ask Marvel and/or the other studios to create the CGI that will convince them.

Grant the families whatever shreds of peace they can find.

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May 3, 2023·edited May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

The God, Guns & Family cultists.....oh but fear the rainbow people!?! Maybe Governor Ironsides and his ammosexual supporters should re-review the film from the Uvalde massacre and tell us why their brave, heavily armed posse of good guys with guns stood idly by as kids were being slaughtered?!?

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I would listen to that explanation. I bet it would be fascinating.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

How pathetic and sad our country has become. As you conclude, "This is the result of legislators who value weaponry over people, ..." This same thinking has continued throughout our countries history. As tragic as the attack on 911 was by terrorists, the response, at that time, was again the result of legislators who value weaponry over people. And the trickle down affect over these years can be seen in an increasingly militant society. I hate it when the terrorist win. :( Prayers to all that some peace will break out soon.

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Amen.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

Just when I thought Republicans could not get more evil...

The GOP Gospel: Maximize Human Suffering.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

G=Guns O=Over P=People

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Stealing.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

This is shocking on so many levels. I have a hard time understanding why anyone would think this is acceptable.

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From what I can tell, it was just kind of slipped in as a general "school safety" bill. My ass.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

And then I'll go learn from a 3rd grader.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

They will probably propose they teach the kids how to use a gun (under the guise of it being for protection) next. They're accepting the violence instead of preventing it! It is insanity!

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I would bet there's the draft of a bill just like that, floating around somewhere in the U.S.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

I was misremembering who wrote the poem "Naming the Parts," but managed to find it: here it is: https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/naming-of-parts

I am so depressed at how deliberately, how multidimensionally, the GOP is advertising its winsome delight in the death of this one, the death of that one, what are their treasures and idols and how immune they are.

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My God. That was incredible.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

Maybe AI could be used for good to figure out a solution. I've been hearing doomsday warnings of bad actors using AI for harm lately in the news.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

Dr. Reginald Lourie, a well-respected child psychiatrist, told a story of a man jumping in a river to save a drowning child. Back onshore, he gives the child artificial respiration. But then he notices 2 more children in the river. He calls for help & another man jumps in to assist. More and more children are seen floundering in the water. A human chain is formed to pull them out, but more kids keep coming. One main leaves the chain. The other men desperately call out to him to come back to get more children to shore. The man replies, “The hell with that! I’m going upstream to stop who is pushing them in the river.” First aid measures aside, Texas needs legislators with big enough cajones to stop our children from being blasted into the river of blood.

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I heard this story, only it was with babies floating down a river. Same thing. We are not going to the source of this issue. It's the guns. It's. The. Guns.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

That makes me want to cry. It also makes me think of all they're doing in Florida and are trying to do in Texas to make education less "woke" - that makes me mad. What a tough time.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

Next will be training in triage based on gender, race, test scores, parents political affiliation……………

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I may steal this, too.

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No. He shouldn't. Neither should any kid.

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