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Look_to_the_Stars t1_j8jxq1f wrote

Reply to comment by BugEyedLemur in Michigan State cancels athletic events for 48 hours after campus shooting by PrincessBananas85

So how long is that? Who decides that? Two days is way too short but a week is long enough? Two weeks? The rest of the year? Should MSU cancel ALL events for as long as some Reddit user thinks is long enough?

Also the fact that you can’t even type one paragraph without cursing like a middle schooler says more about you than anything.

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BugEyedLemur t1_j8jwr63 wrote

Reply to comment by Look_to_the_Stars in Michigan State cancels athletic events for 48 hours after campus shooting by PrincessBananas85

Did the thought ever occur to you that the students who died may have been friends with the student-athletes or even involved with the teams? An entire community was just fucking shot up for no reason, but yea, basketball within that community shouldn't wait because shootings and basketball aren't directly related.

Give people time to grieve and process what the hell just happened. It could've been anyone who died, including the athletes on the basketball team. For fucks sake, they may have been present when it was all going down. Can't believe this needs to be explained to anyone at this point. Oh wait, yea I can, because stupidity and lack of empathy seemingly run rampant and parallel these days.

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Ferris_Wheel_Skippy t1_j8juk2e wrote

Reply to comment by sloppymcgee in Michigan State cancels athletic events for 48 hours after campus shooting by PrincessBananas85

It's interesting you brought up Uvalde. My earliest memory of a mass shooting was Columbine in 1999

then there were a string of them, so many of them at this point that I've forgotten. I know there was Virginia Tech, and then Rep. Giffords getting shot in the head, and the Aurora Movie Theater and many more...but the one that really stood out to me was Sandy Hook in 2012, because of the young age of those poor kids who lost their lives that day because of some fucking ugly bloated-face moron with a bowl cut.

but then nothing happened. If anything, the pro-gun whackjobs got even more embedded and defensive in government. That's when I realized if people don't care about protecting kindergarteners, then they're never going to care

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