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• negativenull@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If Ulvade and/or SandyHook didn’t change anything, nothing else will. :/

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s astounding to me is any of us old enough to remember 9/11 remember the phrase “9/11 changed everything.” But school after school has massacres of children and it changes nothing.

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    • negativenull@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I remember it well. 9/11 did change lots of things (not for the better either), but it did galvanize the nation. Now my son has to have active-shooter drills in school and we have to act like it’s normal. I guess that is new/changed.

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      • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It galvanized the nation for about 4 days, until GWB and other prominent politicians set the populace upon itself, and the divide widened.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, you don’t want the kind of change that 9/11 brought.

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    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The difference is that 9/11 was able to be channeled into xenophobia. The same can’t really happen with school shootings. The 40k mindset of hate being a valuable and limited resource hits way too close to home.

      And it’s all a tragedy.

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  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    COVID should have done something. It was a world wide issue.

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    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Politically, it did do something. It was a useful wedge issue for republican politiicans to take advantage of, at the cost of people’s lives.

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      • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I meant something good.

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