26 years later and how successful have they been at preventing school shootings and gun violence?
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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Repubs don’t give a fuck if kids get shot.
Or starve, or get measles, or raped, or pregnant, or molested by clergy, or worked to death, or are housed, or...
Best I can do is thoughts, almost out of prayers
Well we can't do anything now, it's far too soon.
Wow. 6 months after the shooting her mom shot herself. her dad moved her to an isolated mountain region. she managed to buy her own house, live independently, get a job, and forgive the gunman's parents. good for her. sounds like an amazing woman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Marie_Hochhalter?wprov=sfla1
There is no analogue that is more true than the effect of that shooting still being felt today.
And how far have we come....? That's a rhetorical question.