Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape@mas.to
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Everytime I read something like this it makes me so angry.
The fact that a society has been letting this happen for so long and so often that there are now regularly people who live through a second mass shooting before even finishing their education is the most shocking indictment of US politics

Headline from the New York Times: At least two students at Brown have survived school shootings before.At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded there on Saturday have survived school shootings before. One is Mia Tretta, a junior who was shot in the abdomen during a 2019 shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, Calif. Ms. Tretta, 21, was studying for a final exam in her Brown dormitory on Saturday when she learned of the attack. She had been planning to study at the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building, where the shooting took place, but had changed her mind because she felt tired, she said in an interview. “People always think, well, it’ll never be me,” said Ms. Tretta, one of five students shot in Santa Clarita, two of them fatally, by a 16-year-old classmate. “And until I was shot in my school, I also thought the same thing.”
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