#mass violence

[protoslacker]

#international law #genocide #ethnic cleansing #mass violence

[redshift-13]

This violence doesn’t spring spontaneously out of nowhere, of course.

It emerges out of atmospheres of hate created by Christian conservative politicians like Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, and sites like LibsofTikTok on twitter where right-wing Bible bangers congregate, mutually reinforce their prejudices, and then launch campaigns of threats and violence against LGBT people:

https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1594330171905118208

https://twitter.com/JayUlfelder/status/1594320767503794176

https://twitter.com/SarahBellum627/status/1594330820369518592

https://twitter.com/UnluckyBanshee/status/1594260707222380545

https://twitter.com/countthecars/status/1594354259964833792

#club q #mass violence #gun violence #lgbtq #u.s. #the christian conservative hate movement

[feral-trans-faerieboy]

It's fucking February and so far this year the US has already had 67 shootings.

It's FEBRUARY

#mass shooting #mass violence #tw gun violence #when people ask why i would carry?? I'm an indigenous jewish transsexual and everyone who hates me is armed and WILL SHOOT i wish i didn't #need to but the fucking statistics show that I need one in this hellhole

[janersm]

#george takei #guns #gun control #gun violence #matthew mcconaughey #twitter #robb elementary school #uvalde #texas #mass violence #school shooting #texas school shooting #breitbart

[etakeh]

#shootings #mass shootings #gun violence #god #thoughts and prayers #mass violence

[thebloodlinestopswithme]

#antinatalism #antinatalist #Chrissy Chlapecka #Mass violence #Mass acts of violence #Roe v Wade #Gun violence

[mythicalcoolkid]

(Let the record show that I am not posting this in the wake of a mass shooting getting national attention. I expect it may get spikes during those times, but I, OP, am posting this in early July 2022)

Stop saying mass shootings are a mental health issue. This is something that’s difficult for people on EITHER side of the debate to get. Every time a tragedy like this happens, the reports flock to a dangerous mentally ill person for whom everyone should’ve seen the warning signs earlier. Even if it’s acknowledged that there was extremism at play, it’s normally painted as someone whose mental illness was taken advantage of and exploited by extremist groups

And I know. I know it’s easier to have something to blame. We want to think that it’s something no “normal” person could do, that the only way a human could do that is if they were sick or had something wrong with them. But this isn’t true and it isn’t helpful

These are not done because the person was mentally ill. There are mentally ill people all around you. There are SCARY mentally ill people all around you, the people with “sociopathy/psychopathy,” the ones who don’t have empathy, the ones who hear voices telling them to do bad things. One out of every hundred people in the US is diagnosed with schizophrenia - for context, statistically that means a “small” college lecture hall could have multiple schizophrenic students. They’re your friends and neighbors. They’re people you never would’ve guessed. And they’re not committing atrocities. People with serious mental illness are discriminated against and unjustly incarcerated and are much more frequently targets of violence, both interpersonal and systemic

We DO need better mental health care. But mass shootings are not a mental health issue. They are overwhelmingly a bigotry and extremism issue. We can talk about how mentally ill people are targeted, exploited, and more vulnerable to extremist groups and cults, but mental illness is not why shootings happen. Human beings just like you without any mental illness are capable of committing horrible acts

And as a side note? Anticipating the number of people who will be in the notes saying that simply being able to commit an act like that is evidence of mental illness: that’s circular logic. You can’t claim that people commit atrocities because they’re mentally ill and that they’re mentally ill because they commit atrocities. Cherry-picking bits of DSM criteria - low empathy, issues reasoning, grandiosity - is also erasing the millions of people who have those things and do not commit horrific acts. Mentally ill people can commit horrible acts due to their mental illness, but mental illness is not the explanation for mass shootings

And if not being horrible toward mentally ill people isn’t a good enough reason for you, consider this: if bad behavior by itself can be classed as a mental illness, what does that say about what we can class as mental illness? Think of the fight to get homosexuality, an act that was seen as morally reprehensible, harmful, and cruel, removed from the DSM. The presence of a behavior, by itself, including genuinely horrible things, is not in itself mental illness. It’s bad behavior

Racism is not a mental illness. Homophobia is not a mental illness. Extremism is not a mental illness

Stop using mentally ill people as your scapegoat or victim during tragedies. People do not commit shootings because they are mentally ill. They do it because they have motivation to and are capable of committing atrocities. Mental illness and abuse are never “the reason” and you’re making the world more dangerous for people who are mentally ill. Stop it

#m/cc #mass shooting #mass violence #shooting mention #violence #gun violence #gun control #long post #let me know any other tags I should add for filtering #by the way I'm gay and schizophrenic so don't @ me for the gay comparison or for saying 'schizophrenic' instead of 'with schizophrenia' #I'm tired and I'm done dealing with that #almost not even posting this because I know it'll spark a debate about 'actually mentally ill people CAN be evil #and evil people can be mentally ill. I think you need to have more nuance?' #'I'd rather not have to reconsider my view on stigmatized things' #'actually I knew a mentally ill person who was really mean so OP has clearly never worked in the real world' #(my favorite is always 'I used to work at [place kids are sent for violent behavior] and the mentally ill kids there are really scary') #anyway if you have scary mental illnesses hit me up I need more friends #signed your local schizo

[politijohn]

Source // Two heroes from the Colorado Springs nightclub shooting were a military veteran and a trans woman (misidentified as a drag queen in the article) who stepped on the gumman with her heels.

No cops. A vet and a trans woman.

#lgbt #Lgbtq #mass shooting #gun violence #homophobia #gay rights #Colorado Springs #the left #current events #news #important #acab #Colorado #bigotry #trans lives matter #trans

[annarborcounselingservices]

Strategies for Coping After Mass Violence

Too often acts of mass violence occur in our world. Even if we did not experience the event first-hand, it can impact our mental health as we are viewing it on TV and social media. We want to provide resources and strategies for coping after an act of mass violence occurs.

This may be an email with resources that you save for a time in the future when it could be beneficial, or now may be a time where you find these resources helpful.

Not every strategy will be best suited for you, and that is OK! Make sure to check-in with yourself about what coping strategies would be beneficial for you considering how you are experiencing life after the event.

Strategies for Managing Fears

Normalize an Increase in Anxiety. It is a normal response to feel more anxious and tense after an act of mass violence.

Connect with People in your community about your fears, including friends and family. Experiencing a sense of support and universality can help with not feeling alone after the event.

If you have children, do not avoid tough conversations about the event. Talk with your children about what they know and address any misconceptions/rumors.

Redirect your fears to action. This could look like volunteering and supporting communities impacted by the event.

Self-Care

Limit Media Consumption

With the 24-hours news cycle, it is natural to want to keep reading and watching for updates. However, it can inadvertently increase a person’s stress levels. Take a daily 2-3 hour social media/news break.

Focusing on Your Daily Habits

Focusing on parts of your schedule that you can control is beneficial during this time. This includes eating regularly throughout the day, engaging in nighttime routine, and moving your body.

Participate in Activities you Enjoy

It may be difficult, but it is OK to have fun during this time and give your brain a break from what is going on around you.

Contact AACA if you are not currently seeing a clinician and would like to set up an appointment.

#Coping #Mass Violence #Self Care

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#assault weapons ban #gun control #gun violence #right-wing anti-government militias #mass shootings #school shootings #the nra is a terrorist organization #republicans arm mass shooters

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #republicans #conservatives #conservatives be like #republicans be like #gun fetishists #gun fetishists be like #gun violence #gun control #gun rights #mass shootings #mass shooters #memes #shitpost #school shooting

[janersm]

“I apologize for my house being cluttered and in disarray, but I am cluttered and in disarray.”

Irene Selines, a retired teacher from Uvalde

#quotes #irene selines #grief #uvalde #robb elementary school #school shooting #texas school shooting #texas #mass shooting #mass violence #gun violence #guns #gun control

[misterparadigm]

Mass Violence: The Creep of Absurdity as a Belief

The philosophical concept of absurdity is sentimental. It's an emotional reaction to being unable to define a particular purpose or meaning to existence. Absurdity is a sentiment resulting from an unwilling ignorance of existential teleology that cannot be ameliorated.

To entertain absurdity is one thing. It can be superficially cathartic and offer some great laughs. But beyond entertaining it, when it becomes a genuine belief--and belief compels action--it manifests itself in its purest form as pathology and madness. A fully embodied subscription to absurdity neither justifies nor chastises any particular behavior, and so the default setting is whatever the unadulterated, uncivilized motivations are that lie beneath the unique individual subscriber. Maybe it's self-destruction, maybe it's creative exploration, or maybe it's the freedom to enact whatever compelled drive they may be feeling in any given moment (including unthinkable violence), but I'd wager it always comes with, at minimum, LATENT despair.

My suspicion is that mass violence increases in frequency as life becomes more tedious, less manageable, more complicated, less navigable, and less spiritually validating. As the patterns of meaning that guide us are stripped away, and existence for some has been intolerably cruel and absurd, an existential psychosis forms, and it manifests itself as a rage-driven philosophy of violence. Rage at the unjustifiable offense of being itself.

Life comes to be defined by its malevolent cruelty without mercy, relent, or meaning. I do believe that the God-shaped hole is real, and when that wound is left open, it is prone to infection. But I also know that the effort to fill it is philosophically herculean, and that your subconscious let's you get away with nothing unsure.

#philosophy #absurdity #mass violence #mass shooting #god-shaped hole #spirituality #meaning #purpose #teleology #existential #existentialism #psychology #psychopathy #madness #despair

[progressivemillennial]

#politics #us politics #progressive #capitalism #imperialism #war #poverty #mass incarceration #universal healthcare #healthcare #racism #acab #colonialism #policing #injustice #environmentalism #green #activism #political violence #forever war #inequality #oppression

[headspace-hotel]

the texas shooting boils my blood because there were cops outside the school who were supposed to be protecting the students inside, and the shooter was inside the school for FORTY MINUTES while parents were at the school begging to be let in to try to save their children and. they. did. nothing.

The cops just let this person murder 18 (???) schoolchildren like ????

#school shooting #mass shooting #child death tw #child murder tw #gun violence tw #acab

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

#republican assholes #kansas city chiefs #Super Bowl parade shooting #gun reform #gun violence #gun crime #resist #the nra is a terrorist organization #nra owns GOP #MASS SHOOTING