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Comments on: We Need to do “Something” https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/we-need-to-do-something/ Finding the funny in it all... Tue, 04 Oct 2022 21:31:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Mindy https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/we-need-to-do-something/#comment-36133 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 01:02:05 +0000 http://www.thesuburbanlife.com/?p=4122#comment-36133 In reply to Sharon.

Thank you Sharon! I wholeheartedly appreciate you taking the time to read my ramblings. And I’ve heard you speak to your classroom kiddos with more eloquence and deep-hearted passion than I could ever hope to muster up. <3

]]> By: Mindy https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/we-need-to-do-something/#comment-36132 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 01:00:31 +0000 http://www.thesuburbanlife.com/?p=4122#comment-36132 In reply to Marie Wilson.

I completely understand that feeling Marie. I actually also went to Thurston and knew the Kinkel family. Although I wasn’t attending the school at the time, I still feel a very personal involvement to the situation and to the community. My hope is that the current generation, growing up among and amidst this culture, will bring the change we so desperately need. Thank you for your comment. <3

]]> By: Marie Wilson https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/we-need-to-do-something/#comment-36112 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:46:54 +0000 http://www.thesuburbanlife.com/?p=4122#comment-36112 It sometimes seems to me that this is a case of “real life” Hunger Games…we know someone’s kids are going to be sacrificed, and we are just relieved when it’s not ours. Many believe that this is just the cost of living in a free society…we sacrifice our kids to the “gun gods” and hope that what ever the number of the new tragedy is enough to satisfy him for awhile. But it’s not…my kids all graduated from Thurston High school in Oregon, one of the first and most media immersed school shootings of it’s time. Only 2 students were killed (the shooter killed his parents as well before he opened fire at the school) My kids were not students there at the time, but the legacy of being at the front of this epidemic still lives in our community. I can’t even talk to anyone about this any more because I believe that if nothing was done after Sandy Hook, nothing will really ever be done. I just can’t even open my mouth about it without crying and becoming ineffective at trying to support my opinions on the obvious need for change.

]]> By: Sharon https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/we-need-to-do-something/#comment-36110 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:23:59 +0000 http://www.thesuburbanlife.com/?p=4122#comment-36110 I’m stunned after reading this. You took all of my feelings and turned them into something that made sense, but far more eloquently than I ever could have done. I’m guilty of many of the things you wrote about. I appreciate the frankness.

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