I prefer LARPers with guns, myself. Coward is too good for these roleplayers who couldn't be bothered to use their 6-weeks of training in how to beat black citizens and plant evidence, to take out an active shooter in an elementary school.

We are a people with sociopaths in positions of power, with a license to kill, who feel no empathy toward others enough to ask why they weren't acting to save these kids and teachers. Then to hear that parents were threatened with arrest (maybe actually arrested the mother who jumped a fence and managed to save her son when the cops would do nothing) if they tried to enter and do anything to help those inside.

As a new parent to a kid that will be 5 this year, this shit is my nightmare. When the footage came out showing those scummy wannabes standing around hearing round after round of shots, knowing they were coming from classrooms of children and teachers, who likely were dying with every pop, made me so angry I was practically shaking and weeping. I've never felt that much utter contempt for police in my life. They'd have had to shoot me to keep me out of that school. I can't imagine a more dystopian world than one where the parents were threatened while a gunman mowed down their children for over an hour.

I'm so sorry for the families. They had to bury their children or loved one and live with the image of indifferent cops standing around in the school doing nothing. I would be left wondering which order my kid was shot and could they have been saved with the initial responding officers, or any other fucking one of the 300 and something on scene, doing their job, regardless of who the fuck was in charge. I guess at training these cops all skipped the class about active shooters are bad and can be legally shot.

Not to pick any side in a world conflict, or make anything about this post anymore political, but this is why I have a hard time knowing about the civilian and children lost in Gaza. How the losses make up a disproportionally high number of women and children. I don't give a flying fuck the color of a child's skin or what religion their parents practice, THEY ARE FUCKING CHILDREN, FOR FUCKS SAKE!!

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In an armed force there's a separation between paycheck personnel ("I just work here, may consider myself very cool, but value my life too much") and stormtroopers (can't find another word ; people who actually go and fight). There are issues with having the latter at all, because such people are usually idealistic and inconvenient, and needed only in crises, which won't happen until they do.