Gun control (your thoughts on one thread)
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 9:44 pm
I watched this video of the shooting inside the Covenant School in Nashville. At least LE in Nashville was immediately on it and subdued the shooter within 10 minutes of the onset of the event, unlike the Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde Texas where officers waited for over an hour to proceed.
This video is a little different than what is typical. It's the view inside the school through the lens of officer body cam. I cannot find the words to express how it makes me feel to tour the school via body cam with weapons in the frame. My eyes go through the hallways with the officers. I can see their weapons but the interior of the school is what draws my eye. The bulletin board displays, the classrooms, the common areas, and knowing what goes on in a school like that every day. Laughter and learning, first friendships being made, social relationships working themselves out leading to so much happiness for a student and sometimes tears of disappointment, followed by the courage to try again. Students cheering each other on, loving their teacher, and their teacher loving them.
When I see the desecration of a safe space, a place of discovery like this, it hurts my brain and my heart. Of course I have worked in classrooms just like that when I assisted K-5 grades, though most of my years were spent teaching young children in stand alone schools created just for them.
When you walk into school at the start of each day, adults and students do so with happy anticipation of what the day will bring. It's a cheerful environment, a place of growth, and if you will, a nest that envelopes children and their adult partners in learning. I can't think of a single day when I left for school each morning regardless of grade, that I didn't do so with a spirit of joy and wondering what the day would bring. I can't think of a greater privilege than the one I had for so many years.
My brain struggles to process the juxtaposition of weapons moving through a children's environment and yet, we see it with such frequency that we can't even list the locations or the number of dead and wounded much less the date that each shooting took place.
This should have stopped at Sandy Hook Elementary TEN YEARS ago when Adam Lanza put to death 20 first graders (!) and 6 adults only after shooting his own mother. But it didn't stop then.
Please watch this and look to see what I see as the cameras move through the hallways and classrooms of Covenant. Do you see the spaces where children live more waking hours than they do at home?
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Video shows police confronting Nashville school shooter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=768yEZhbODE
And after you view it would you please tell me your thoughts on gun legislation and what we can do about it when our elected officials persist in damned over our future? Not the mental health/access to care or school security measures. Just stay on the guns please and thank you.
"Do something with your life that will outlast it."
I did and I still do,
Jersey
Your turn.
This video is a little different than what is typical. It's the view inside the school through the lens of officer body cam. I cannot find the words to express how it makes me feel to tour the school via body cam with weapons in the frame. My eyes go through the hallways with the officers. I can see their weapons but the interior of the school is what draws my eye. The bulletin board displays, the classrooms, the common areas, and knowing what goes on in a school like that every day. Laughter and learning, first friendships being made, social relationships working themselves out leading to so much happiness for a student and sometimes tears of disappointment, followed by the courage to try again. Students cheering each other on, loving their teacher, and their teacher loving them.
When I see the desecration of a safe space, a place of discovery like this, it hurts my brain and my heart. Of course I have worked in classrooms just like that when I assisted K-5 grades, though most of my years were spent teaching young children in stand alone schools created just for them.
When you walk into school at the start of each day, adults and students do so with happy anticipation of what the day will bring. It's a cheerful environment, a place of growth, and if you will, a nest that envelopes children and their adult partners in learning. I can't think of a single day when I left for school each morning regardless of grade, that I didn't do so with a spirit of joy and wondering what the day would bring. I can't think of a greater privilege than the one I had for so many years.
My brain struggles to process the juxtaposition of weapons moving through a children's environment and yet, we see it with such frequency that we can't even list the locations or the number of dead and wounded much less the date that each shooting took place.
This should have stopped at Sandy Hook Elementary TEN YEARS ago when Adam Lanza put to death 20 first graders (!) and 6 adults only after shooting his own mother. But it didn't stop then.
Please watch this and look to see what I see as the cameras move through the hallways and classrooms of Covenant. Do you see the spaces where children live more waking hours than they do at home?
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Video shows police confronting Nashville school shooter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=768yEZhbODE
And after you view it would you please tell me your thoughts on gun legislation and what we can do about it when our elected officials persist in damned over our future? Not the mental health/access to care or school security measures. Just stay on the guns please and thank you.
"Do something with your life that will outlast it."
I did and I still do,
Jersey
Your turn.