Oh don’t worry my apology is as useless. god they’re really going to use this to make trans lives worse
They were already hellbent on making the lives of trans people worse. It's going to be sickening to watch their BS now... "It's not a gun issue it's a mental health issue." "Trans people shouldn't have health or mental health care."
Something, not coincidentally, that was literally said out loud by a presenter at CPAC last month. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_stages_of_genocide Depending on which state you live in, trans people are at just before stage 7 or just before stage 8.
Highly recommend stocking up on self defense mechanisms. I myself am trying to lose some of my COVID-50 in an effort to be not so much of a tub o lard in case my family needs defending...
They are hoping that if they stop kids from being trans (which they can't) that it will in turn stop trans people from existing. Yeah, it looks like we are about at 6. Scary shit. I can't even imagine how scary for the trans community. But, I stand with you.
Florida is further along, Tennessee too, and Texas. Other states want to be further along. And if DeSantis is elected, or hell even if he isn’t and the republicans get a majority of both houses, trans people are going to be fucked properly.
Yeah, other red states are following in Florida's footsteps. Yeah, if he gets elected president or if the republicans get back control they will do their best to outlaw the LGBTQ community on a national level. It's hard to imagine so many years worth of progress evaporating so quickly.
Just watching the latest shooting video with police walking through the school clearing one room at a time. I had a random thought. What if all schools had cameras that were able to be quickly signed into by police so they could track the shooter? Seems like a very helpful tool that could be fairly cheap to initiate. The better the camera system the better it would work. Voice or light commands could possibly lead kids away from the threat. Just a thought.
Cameras are cheap. No doubt about it. There should be a camera inside and outside of every door. Every ground level room should have an exit outdoors. Or at least away from the main entrance. All ground level windows should be thick polycarbonate (it's bullet proof). All doors closed and locked from outside. Every room should have a heat pump to remove incentive to open windows and doors.
The killer was undergoing regular therapy for weeks leading up to this shooting but hiding weapons and ammo and buying more during the therapy....treating mental illness didn't stop her from legally purchasing 7 weapons even while clinically diagnosed with depression. In this case where medical attention was ongoing...access to weapons was too easy and the result was 6 innocent deaths and suicide by cop. Only way to prevent this tragedy is to eliminate the obvious. Keep the weapons away from the emotionally disturbed patient..
Treating mental illness during an episode isn't where you get the most gains. You get the gains by preventing the mental illness in the first place, or treating it young.
clearly a failure in this case on both counts...the legal access to weapons and ammo didn't provide any gains, that's for sure.
this is one of those points I was mentioning where, because conservatives operate under the assumption that all trans people are mentally ill, that it is a mental illness, they can do something like really enshrine “no guns for the mentally ill” into law and then just selectively enforce it against their political enemies. How could a trans person fight that?
In a civil society being transgendered and suffering from clinical depression should not be any different than any other person clinically diagnosed with mental illness...unfortunately being trans or gay or of any identity that threatens conservative right wing men has been weaponized by them to drag us back into some weird Republican apartheid. I'm sure fed up with it. I can't imagine what you have to deal with around your life but it breaks my heart humanity has devolved into the current political climate.
