This would be a great book to mail to all the politicians. This is absolutely tragic.

@6ixConfessions

Жыл бұрын

And the right would just ban it.

@frankpeter9145

Жыл бұрын

@@6ixConfessions They have trouble reading Golden Books.

@Thepopcornator

Жыл бұрын

DeSantis would probably consider it too woke.

@ApeLikeThinker

Жыл бұрын

We should send a copy of the constitution to Democrats. They seem to forget about the first two amendments.

@luigithewall2224

Жыл бұрын

@@ApeLikeThinker so the first 2 amendment are about killing children and daily mass shootings?

Can anyone even imagine this. This family was thrown out of the bogus house hearing 2 wks ago for speaking out against guns! N

@MsTMarie83

Жыл бұрын

What's sad is hardly any Americans actually pay attn or watch those hearings... Horribly uneducated with politics but they always vote 😞

@GothicVioletVixen

Жыл бұрын

@@MsTMarie83 with the older voters, thats true. They like believing what Uncle Sam tells them. The younger ones were taught critical thinking skills. We fact check, and dig into studies. Also, the younger crowd is getting older, now. Soon, the kids that lived, will be law makers. You can't gaslight the survivors as easily as the uninformed base.

Good for mom. It's definitely jarring to see a children's book speak of these horrors but what's even more shocking is the contents are absolutely true. This book should be sent to every politician unwilling to enact change.

@6ixConfessions

Жыл бұрын

The right would just ban it. I honestly don't think they'll do anything about all the mass shootings until one of their kids or the kid of someone exceptionally famous, wealthy, influential, & white falls victim to a mass shooter.

This is horrifically heartbreaking. I am so sorry for your loss.

So sad and horrible. I almost cried.

The fact the title says FIRST school shooting speaks volumes. It's devestating.

@matjb

Жыл бұрын

It’s especially sad knowing that the likelihood of someone who experiences one as a kid in school, and survives, is likely to experience one again within their lifetime, with current statistics.

@merchernel123

Жыл бұрын

@@matjb Yeah, definitely.

As a former preschool teacher, and current childcare worker, I can imagine reading this to kids as a preface to doing our active shooter drills with them. And by “them” I mean babies. Please imagine teaching 20 toddlers that they have to hide and stay quiet because a “bad person is coming” we make the comparison of hiding from the “big bad wolf” Please take a moment to imagine, first teaching the concept of an active shooter to a 3 year old, and then teaching them what to do in order to hopefully stay alive, all while making it seem like a fun game so you have their attention and they actually learn it, as it clearly is necessary in this country 😔

This broke my heart

Amazing book. It's a shame that it has to be written. 😔

That’s the next book Florida and DeSantis will be banning next.

@Nyrelathotep

Жыл бұрын

He is trying to give the killer a death penalty and it's democrats who are standing against this .

This is a 💔!

"But think of the children!" The children you allow to die in school shootings? Ya hypocrites I'm so sorry for Mom. That book needs to be mail to every politician, not just the ones who don't want to change gun laws.

For a children's book, that's so dark but true.

@matjb

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but an actual school shooting is even darker. It’s currently the number one cause of death for people aged 1-19 years old. It has officially outranked car accidents.

No mother should need to write such a book.

I'm guessing this book will be added to the list of books banned in schools...

@yoyosworld2773

Жыл бұрын

Was just gonna say this. Especially in Florida.

If we’re not going to limit these killing machines we better start teaching kids triage and CPR.

@GothicVioletVixen

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, also, baby body armor. These kiddos will be grown enough to govern soon. Maybe then, we can have real conversations about it. 💔🤞

Wow that’s amazing 💯

A good book, accurate too.🥺

Read carefully WHY she wrote this book.........it's not for sale or to read to children........it's for politicians and she's driving home the point. Here's a quote from an article about her book: Patricia Oliver, whose 17-year-old son, Joaquin, was among the 17 students and staff killed in the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, stressed that this new book, "Joaquin’s First School Shooting," is not for kids -- it's for lawmakers. "We felt this is a new way, a unique way, to make politicians understand," she told ABC News. "What better example than our own son?"

Not gonna lie, this hurt a lot to listen to. As a mother of 2 and one on the way, I understand the duality. On the one hand, it makes me feel kinda safe having guns under every rock here in the states. That alone is a deterrent to 'enemy forces.' But, the enemies can just watch us kill eachother at this point. We're doing their job for them. We need some sort of legislation, now. It's time.

@sebcw1204

Жыл бұрын

i would say that our incomprehensibly powerful conventional military is the main deterrent to enemy forces. the only weakness our forces have is when facing irregulars. like mass shooters. if we read the 2nd, we see clearly why they wrote it. militias were once the way states defended themselves, that is no longer the case. the whole purpose of the 2nd amendment was made obsolete when we established a standing army. as of now, the presence of a gun has a higher chance of harming the owner than defending them form an assailant. i don't think we can or should take guns from responsible owners. what we should be doing is ensuring that irresponsible or domestically abusive people do not get their hands on them.

@OmANnIe

Жыл бұрын

​@@sebcw1204 Love your comment and absolutely agree. I'm a gun owner and all for gun reform.

@benc.enlots

Жыл бұрын

​@@OmANnIe All the laws in the world don't matter to people who want to perform these acts. More of them won't either. Arm the teachers and liason officers in the schools.... that will deter more than any law restricting them.

@OmANnIe

Жыл бұрын

@@benc.enlots Ben, our teachers are ALREADY so underpaid and undervalued. We can't even keep our schools fully staffed with educators because of how they're treated. Politicians don't trust our teachers with books, but they'll trust them with guns? How does that make sense? Teachers didn't sign up to be a police officer or soldier. Why would gun reform laws not work in America when they work in every other developed country?

@sebcw1204

Жыл бұрын

@@benc.enlots not when the purpose of the assault is to die by gunfire. when going out in a blaze of glory is the intent, putting MORE guns in a place will attract them more. not only that, school resource officers have proven to be inneffective at deterrance, and they reduce the safety of students of color. teachers are not soldiers, arming them without enough training means you have a poorly secured firearm within reach of children. giving them enough training takes away time from being a teacher.

Insaine. Regression of a country.

The parents of school shooting victims are tragically creative. I hope their efforts changes someone's heart.🖤

Good for her

Thank you for writing this.

This Is America.

@steadly3668

Жыл бұрын

You should see Africa.

Possibly by tomorrow and definitely by next week, even more mothers will add their children to the list...

Speak up is good, but bullying fails to censored wrong. Until revolver'd and shotgunned by gangsters. Oof.

@mikeh5150

Жыл бұрын

Not sure what your word salad is meant to convey

@Willchannel90

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeh5150 It's a word.

@ThePMcDonald

Жыл бұрын

@@Willchannel90 but you're either a bot, a troll, or both, but you are NOT human ... Neither comment made by @William Tao makes any sense ... still guessing bot spewing AI-generated text ... /s/ USMC (Retired)

Next book to be banned, I'm sure.

Don't use Uncle Roger for the cover.

I just reposted this to Twitter everyone should repost this the different movie is that you carry, spread this like wildfire

I'm just curious what kind of reform people think will actually make an improvement?

@Toccata.

Жыл бұрын

The banning of AK 15s and access to better mental health help and better background checks for potential gun owners. It’s really not much but Republicans don’t even want to meet the bare minimum.

@tonilharmon

Жыл бұрын

Banning assault rifles would be a good start.

@matjb

Жыл бұрын

Considering that owning a gun shouldn’t be a right, but a privilege, would be a great start as well. 99.9% of people in America shouldn’t have that privilege.

@annarocha3254

Жыл бұрын

@@matjb fine. So how would the government go about taking back the almost 500 million guns in the country?

@steadly3668

Жыл бұрын

@@matjb slow down there Hitler.

This book should not even had to exist… think about that

HOW COULD YOU SAY THIS IS A CHILDRENS BOOK..YOU NEED HELP.

@GothicVioletVixen

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean? This is part of their school day, how is it not appropriate to show them what they will/have already seen?

@andmos1001

Жыл бұрын

Here is the thing, we see mothers actually teaching 6 year old about what they are going to do if a school shooting happens in their own schools. That’s how bad it is

@emmawieson2121

Жыл бұрын

Why not? Kids are going through shooting drills every day. Thousands of kids have survived shootings. Hundreds more have lost friends to shootings. This is their everyday normal. Nothing wrong about it except that it’s a thing that happens to them

Haha

This bad book !!

@clartblart3266

Жыл бұрын

What's so bad about it?

@OmANnIe

Жыл бұрын

What's "bad" is that it's 100% true. Too many are getting use to these murders and content with allowing them to happen. This beautiful mother's own son was murdered. Can you imagine for 1 second the kind of devastation she feels? One day, we will ALL experience the same unimaginable loss at the rate these shootings are happening. Now she's fighting for everyone else's life. The book isn't getting anyone murdered. The inaction of politicians is getting people murdered and the indifference of those who claim that gun reform would be infringing on their rights is tragic.

Wow. Heartbreaking. Vote blue 2024!!

Now think about how kids feel in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Sudan, Somalia and Mexico because of American weapons.

@GothicVioletVixen

Жыл бұрын

We have more than them, though... All of them... By a LOT. Also, That still doesnt count gun suicide. How bout we worry about us for a minute?

😲🤯 What kind of horrific place is Earth! It's quite harsh to claim politicians don't care, though, & kinda weird to mention them but not the killer.

The mentality ill will use what they can. The UK has no legal guns for the majority of the public but they do have a terrifying number of knife attacks. More gun legislation won't change the underlying problem of mental illness.

@CChrist-mh4mk

Жыл бұрын

Mass killings would dramatically go down if guns were banned. That’s not up for debate.

@kingwokester7324

Жыл бұрын

No. 1 a person with a knife will always be far less dangerous than a person armed with an AR-15. No. 2 republicans vetoes bills that addresses mental health problems. Can you stupid NPCs come up with something new?

@jaynewallace8592

Жыл бұрын

How many people walk into schools and kill multiple children with a knife though?

@michaelaghmalone-hansen5656

Жыл бұрын

TERRIFYING?? Really?! The number is not as high as you may think, especially after the government put laws into place a few years ago, that reduced the number of stabbings dramatically. Figures from the Office for National Statistics show 282 homicides were committed using a knife or sharp instrument in the year to March 2022, There were a total of 700+ homicides in the UK in 2022, including the 282 fatal stabbings. The USA, in 2021 had over 1000 murders by knife. Gun violence, just this year in the USA has already killed over 16,000 Americans. Read that again, in just 5 months, 16,000 Americans have been murdered by guns only, if that trend continues this year, the final number at the end of the year will be approx 33,000 lives lost to guns. Every year, over 6000 Children in the USA are murdered or injured by guns. Gun legislation WILL change the underlying problem, all you have to do is look at the low to almost zero number of mass shootings in those countries that chose to make childrens lives a priority and ban guns!

@jamesboyd5573

Жыл бұрын

Why is it that 90% of all violent shootings take place in blue cities? These are places that are so called 'gun free zones'

That is almost as evil as the shooter.

@aumelb

Жыл бұрын

It's a daily reality American kids live with. Unless the legislation is changed, they need to be prepared to face this reality any day they go to school.

@stephanymendoza9131

Жыл бұрын

It’s for the people who are desensitized to all these shootings that are happening.

@sebcw1204

Жыл бұрын

how so? i don't think it's genuinely appropriate for children, but by using the STYLE of a children's book, she drives home her point.

@calvingreene90

Жыл бұрын

@@aumelb Yep. If we don't start guarding our schools like children are more valuable than banks there will continue to be school shootings no matter how many "gun control" laws are passed. Shinzo Abe was shot in a bastion of gun control with a homemade gun.

@calvingreene90

Жыл бұрын

@@stephanymendoza9131 You mean the people who jump on every shooting as an excuse to violate the constitution and create disarm victims for the criminals and government.

Why she wrote book about her is on about his dead !!!

@lotusxr

Жыл бұрын

Wana try that sentence over again?

Ban that book for violent content. Such poor taste

@emmawieson2121

Жыл бұрын

Too late. It’s already being copied hundreds of times over. 😂😂

@bunnyofdoom4501

Жыл бұрын

@Emma Wieson yes ur absolutely right. The new shooters have been copying what the kids from Columbine HS did in the 90s, for a couple of decades now. 👍

@emmawieson2121

Жыл бұрын

@@bunnyofdoom4501 So this book is extremely relevant and will keep being published until we start caring less about the unborn and more about the already born. Die angry, muppet reject

THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN TO KEEP RELIVING THIS. STOP AND HEAL

@emmawieson2121

Жыл бұрын

Can’t. We had another school shooting two days ago.

Arm the teachers with government issued sidearms to defend the kids.

@kingwokester7324

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Lets arm more people with guns to solve the gun issue. What can possibly go wrong…… Ammosexual

@GothicVioletVixen

Жыл бұрын

Uh, sorry, but ive seen what happens when unarmed teachers have bad days. No offense, but they dont get paid enough as is.

@benc.enlots

Жыл бұрын

@@GothicVioletVixen So you think that the people you entrust your children to aren't stable enough to have a self-defense weapon? But you trust such unstable people to teach your children..... Seems problematic on multiple levels.

@BigBlackClips.

Жыл бұрын

@@GothicVioletVixen So pay them more as well. Duh

@GothicVioletVixen

Жыл бұрын

@@BigBlackClips. 🤔 But if we can pay people livable wages why arent we already? Also, paying someone doesnt heal mental health issues, or stop a person from snapping. Duh.

people who think their right to own a object (gun) is more important then right of people to live have f__ded up priorities

@seanmccartney5177

Жыл бұрын

They own guns so their people are protected imagine if schools did this by having armed guards........f__ded up they don't

@CChrist-mh4mk

Жыл бұрын

@@seanmccartney5177 owning a gun makes you more likely to be shot.

@lisahamrick4061

Жыл бұрын

One of the right wing commentators recently said something to the effect of, that's the price of freedom. Personally I think that price is way too high. When we, as a society, are willing to loose our children in order to keep our guns, we have failed miserably.

@patrickmanway290

Жыл бұрын

The 2nd Amendment was a mistake.

@hatredpony3712

Жыл бұрын

How is someone owning a gun causing people to die? Do we not have the right to protect ourselves in situations like these or should we just stand around waiting for the police to get there, hoping our lives are still intact? Do you think criminals will hand over their illegally acquired guns if we take away guns? Try to wake up without being woke.