I’m glad that both you and your wife weren’t shot. Please don’t take this the wrong way, but you’re also a victim of this. Just because you are physically unharmed, doesn’t mean that you weren’t harmed by this. Please talk to a professional about this, you don’t have to process this alone. Look after yourself and your wife, and stay safe.
thanks. we've got a pretty decent support system with family and will be with them this week. will explore other options as needed. we were already considering moving because we never envisioned staying here long term. might need to expedite that as well.
Victim fought gunman in Oregon grocery store shooting that left 2 dead, police say RIP to a couple of heroes. So sad.
I can appreciate the discussion going on right now without contributing to what I feel has been discussed ad nauseam in the "From my cold dead hands" thread. Right now the main thing on my mind is the greater central Oregon community, and honestly, every community in the US. With Uvalde at the very end of the school year and then before this year is even about to start there was someone planning something for day one. This time at a school district that my own brother is employed at. That my father has substitute taught at. I wonder how many parents are pulling their kids from classes. Covid is over and most places are phasing out virtual class, with some saying you can't attend unless it's in person. Maybe this post is better suited for a different thread, but I feel like we are getting into a broken feedback loop. Education is pivotal to a functioning society. We already have the biggest prison population in the world per capita (iirc, call me out if I'm wrong) and if we aren't educating the youth of our country properly this will only get worse. Most here are good parents, I'm sure. Idk. At a loss.
RIP to those two grocery employees who lost their lives trying to save the lives of others......back on topic. My heart goes out to their families and loved ones...the ultimate sacrifice Prisons are graduate schools for bad people and where they network and form racist cults. They are not in the business of reform.
I think the topic is so vivid and we care so much, that sometimes we, myself included, don't take a step back and give a moment for those suffering from such tragedies. I think we all care so much that at times, we dive head first into trying to solve the problems and arguing over the best solutions, that we tend to forget things take time. Most importantly, grieving and mourning… AND understanding that there is no right answer in the instant aftermath of such atrocities. It takes time for level heads to regain stability and attack the problem from all viable angles.
Ex-classmates recall Safeway gunman as angry, liked to fight Sounds like this asshole must have been a terrible shot. As always, this could have been way worse.
The shooter in Bend is dead.....I deleted my "death penalty" posts after realizing that that was not the OP of this thread....let's not drag out the death penalty arguments in light of this case...this shooter is not on death row, he's dead....start another thread for this argument would be my advice ...RIP to the victims in Bend...respect, pass it on. I'll agree to disagree about jails and the death penalty but it's not applicable to this topic. Moving on. This guy will not kill again.
Off to our neighborhood Safeway right now. Hope my right to buy milk doesn't infringe on anybody's right to bring a AR-15 with them to buy chili. We'll see how this goes.
I guarantee you somebody in the store will be armed. Just like every other time you go to the store. And most of those armed people own an AR15. You'd never know it though, because guns don't make people violent.
This is factually inaccurate. Oregon drastically increased gun control over the last 5-10 years only to see violent crime and murder rates spike. Gun control doesn't work. We should be focusing on things that actually work.
