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IcyPeas

(25,688 posts)
17. Did you see the poll at the end of the article?
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 07:02 PM
Dec 2025

There is a poll with 4 choices.

How do you feel about the impact of trauma from the Parkland shooting on survivors like Donovan?

___ It has a long-lasting severe impact
___ It affects survivors but can be managed
___ The trauma is sometimes exaggerated
___ I’m unsure about the long-term effects


The ripple effect on these mass shootings spreads far and wide. I don't know how kids live with what they saw or heard or the terror of being that close to a mass slaughter. I especially think of Sandy Hook and Uvalde.... what those little kids saw! The press won't even publish photos because they are too graphic (the Washington Post did publish some photographs which can be found on the internet) but kids saw and heard it all... floors covered in blood, dead classmates... how do you live with that trauma? What does that do to you? They'll have to live with it for the rest of their lives. But they're all just collateral damage. We can't hurt the gun industry after all. (sarcasm) The second amendment is more sacred than second graders.

And saint charlie kirk said this:

“I think it’s worth it. It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights. That’s a prudent deal. It is rational,” he said on stage...


That poor kid, Donovan, and his family



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We have a generation of survivors of gun violence trauma and are failing them. 💐 Deuxcents Dec 2025 #1
As long as we have shitheads like Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson spouting pro-gun, pro-fascist propaganda... Initech Dec 2025 #13
Dont forget Saint Charlie Kirk: IcyPeas Dec 2025 #19
Remember Joe the Plumber?---"Your Dead Kids Don't Trump My Constitutional Rights' To Have Guns." tblue37 Dec 2025 #25
Absolutely! yellow dahlia Dec 2025 #20
Too sad malaise Dec 2025 #2
Americans have failed their children. Irish_Dem Dec 2025 #3
But we have guns everywhere and criminal fascists in the White House tearing down our safety nets. Initech Dec 2025 #14
Yup yellow dahlia Dec 2025 #22
My biggest concern, as I age out, is the generations we leave behind. yellow dahlia Dec 2025 #21
Yes many of my friends feel the same way. Irish_Dem Dec 2025 #26
I don't have kids. I have nephews and nieces and their munchkins. yellow dahlia Dec 2025 #27
"I have but one sanity to give for my country." Irish_Dem Dec 2025 #28
I cannot expect to live in a sane world again - but perhaps the next generation can. yellow dahlia Dec 2025 #29
Yes I agree. Irish_Dem Dec 2025 #31
We grew up in a time born of the age of innocence in the 50's. yellow dahlia Dec 2025 #32
Yep our dads came home from WWII and wanted peace in the valley and to raise a family. Irish_Dem Dec 2025 #33
GOP is always against some things that harm children, guns are never mentioned MagickMuffin Dec 2025 #4
You mean like drag readings. ananda Dec 2025 #5
Indeed, them books, drag readings from them books MagickMuffin Dec 2025 #11
GOP harms children. IronLionZion Dec 2025 #8
GOP is pro birth and anti-child. Lonestarblue Dec 2025 #12
Is It "Pro-Birth" Or "Pro-Women-As-Brood-Mares"? ColoringFool Dec 2025 #23
I live in Texas and the gun culture is outta control MagickMuffin Dec 2025 #15
This is heart wrenching democrank Dec 2025 #6
K&R spanone Dec 2025 #7
Donovan Clouds Passing Dec 2025 #9
Bless him and his family.I hope he's found peace. nt Ilsa Dec 2025 #10
"What a wuss. It was only the fourth deadliest school shooting. Should have just sucked it up." FadedMullet Dec 2025 #16
Did you see the poll at the end of the article? IcyPeas Dec 2025 #17
To the GOP, guns are more important than other people's children. Dulcinea Dec 2025 #18
Tragic. From then until now. Evolve Dammit Dec 2025 #24
May he find the peace he was robbed of in life MustLoveBeagles Dec 2025 #30
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