#shootings
Black 4-Year-Old Shot Dead after Mistaking White Woman for his Mother
This could be tomorrow's headline anywhere in the southern US, from Florida to Arizona.
Fear of young black people, even among black cops, is a raging epidemic in the United States. Almost every day we read about another atrocity. Right-wingers say mental illness, not the easy availability of firearms, is the problem. Well the racist paranoia of far too many white Americans is a mental health problem. So what, right-wingers, is your solution?
Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States
The New England Journal of Medicine
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2201761
#shooting #shootings #guns #firearms #arms-control #gun-control #racism #usa
Interesting overview on the status of the US gun glut...
Clock is ticking on the Senate's gun deal: Negotiators stuck on two issues as recess looms
The article is overall about the race to pass some type of bill - the first in 30 years - to address gun violence in the U.S.
But just the video at the top is worthwhile, for "context and perspective".
Beyond that, "Children and Violence" has been a particular interest of mine for many years. accelerated on 9/11/01, and since.
And here we are... still.
#children #violence #psychology #Senate #legislation #trauma #shootings
See this last night? If not, it's worth a look. (
"We Will Buy Them Back And We Will Destroy Them" - PM Jacinda Ardern On Gun Control In New Zealand
This is Stephen Colbert/Late Show with the PM of New Zealand.
In the aftermath of the (most recent) Texas massacre.
They had a traumatic school shooting in NZ, but never again. How? (Hint: Action)
Actually almost everywhere else on earth is sane by comparison.
NZ's straightforward response: collect the guns, pay the owners, melt them down. (the guns)
Sure, "it'll never happen in America", where once again people will talk up the value of mental health (valid) but the truth is that the most dangerous and deluded of minds, requiring mental health intervention (or better yet, screening beforehand) are in Congress!
#violence #shootings #schoolshootings #massacre #Texas #NewZealand #guns #massshootings #GQP
The #Republicans are afraid that if the #Democrats abort and/or eat all the babies, there won't be any left for school #shootings.
Labour concerns with conditions at Rust production where Halyna Hutchins died
I heard of the Rust film production firearms mishap early today. Following details of current Hollywood productions isn't my metier, but the filming had come up in a conversation between Alex Baldwin and Bob Garfield (of Bully Pulpit) recently.
The context brought the headline into sharper focus for me.
Details of the incident are beginning to emerge. Among them, a labour action in which numerous production members had walked off the site. The film, for which Baldwin is producer, continued regardless.
Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ camera crew walked off the set in protest before the fatal shooting
Hours before actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of “Rust” with a prop gun, a half-dozen camera crew workers walked off the set to protest working conditions.
The camera operators and their assistants were frustrated by the conditions surrounding the low-budget film, including complaints of long hours and getting their paychecks, according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to comment.
The camera crew showed up for work as expected at 6:30 a.m. Thursday and began gathering up their gear and personal belongings to leave, one knowledgeable crew member told the Los Angeles Times. ...
The prospect that corners were cut, risks were made, crew were fatigued, and as a consequence one life was lost and another put in severe jeopardy, seems increasingly likely.
#HalynaHutchins #AlexBaldwin #Rust #Risk #Hollywood #FilmProduction #Shootings #Accidents #NewMexico #SantaFe
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RELIGION
In junior high school, I watched as the entire Israeli Olympic team was slaughtered.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
My younger peers when I was in high school were raped by five different Catholic priests.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
As a college student, I watched as Americans were taken hostage in the revolution in Iran as a republic of peace was established there.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I watched as terrorists from the religion of peace took down the twin towers in New York.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I watched as Palestinians were separated under apartheid from "real Israelis" and recently were denied vaccinations.
Yet the events have nothing to do with religion.
I watched as a young novice nun in India was murdered, as children were stolen from their unwed mothers, as the dying were neglected and told to suffer, and as Catholics bribed top government officials to delay a trial for two decades on the murder case.
Yet these events have nothing to do with religion.
I watched as immigrant children were stolen from their parents by the U.S. government and sold by church adoption agencies.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I lived among Indian students of many religious backgrounds from Hyderabad who waited for days to hear from their parents and families and friends because phone lines were overloaded after bombs were detonated around the city of Hyderabad.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I comforted a Hindu woman when she was just denied a needed loan from a bank and the bank worker told her "your life would be so much better if you accepted Christ as your savior."
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I watched as a friend's brother took off from an airport in India to come to the U.S. minutes before explosions took place at the airport.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I comforted my Telugu spiritual teacher after she was harassed at her apartment by students from her university classes who claimed she was teaching "paganism" in her international literature class. They were banging on her windows while wearing Halloween masks. It wasn't Halloween.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I was teaching a class at the university, less than a mile from the cinema when John Houser decided to shoot up a room showing an "immoral" movie. One of the dead was from my home town of Franklin.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
When Westboro Baptist Church, after inciting Houser online, threatened to protest the funeral of the woman in Franklin, I showed up to block their protest.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I watched as representatives of the religion of love who were not elected officials dictated the terms of the most strict anti-abortion law in Louisiana's history to those elected officials present. A law that, had it not been overturned, would have caused the deaths of women from pregnancy complications.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I watched in January as religious fanatics stormed our nation's Capitol, urinated and defecated inside, but held a prayer rally in the Senate chambers.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
Now I watch as shooting after shooting are made by religious fanatics who do not hide their motivations. Many of them state their motivations outright, yet I also watch idiots ignore it all and claim mental instability over religious indoctrination.
Yet the events have nothing to do with religion.
Or so I've been told.