I remember graduating school in the 90's and thinking "Thank God I don't have to die here."

Yeah, about that. Happens in colleges too. In fact, high school shooting survivors have gone on to survive a college shooting

Well that's just a statistical certainty

And malls, and churches, and hotels...

...the streets, by cops and ICE and republicans.

There was a shooting at my old high school. My sister was there at the time.

We need more measles cases so that school shootings make up a smaller proportion of childhood deaths

Was she also there after the time?

shish mish

My favorite southern Slavic word! It means “bat” and it’s just darn adorable.

she was there, and there, and some over there too.

It was during her senior year.

Damnit, I didn't need another reason to go straight to hell, and then you made me laugh at that.

When I was in high school in the 80's, a kid got removed from school for bringing an axe in to kill people with.

Simpler times.

Just befriend a paramedic or a firefighter or some other of the sort that works next to a train line. You’ll hear that joke quite often and get used to it.

I think I'd rather just keep mine on.

Meanwhile, in the early mid '90s, I brought a backpack full of self made blasting caps, det cord, and a detonator to high school and got off with an ISS for a week. Admittedly, it was unintentional, and I wasn't trying to kill anyone.

What's her K/D?

"you'll get a higher-paying career if you get a degree"

"counterpoint, you won't if you are murdered while trying"

"well yeah but-"

And your home when you have an argument about guns...

'front towards enemy'... which way to the principal's office again? You there, freshman, I need suppressive fire! You have sleight of hand, yeah?

I remember growing up having my 12 gauge shotgun and 7MM rifle in the gun rack of my truck. Nothing chambered but they were loaded with extra ammo in the glove box. Sometimes we’d go hunting before or after school so we just kept the stuff with us. Unlocked, keys left in the ignition. To top it off I was legally driving to school and work at 14 with my school permit so I wasn’t even 16 yet.

I really miss the society I grew up knowing, things are so fucked these days.

My school safety officer accused me of bringing a bomb to school... It was just an empty air tank for my paintball gun.

Congratulations! Now put that shit back on! We are going to war!

Distractions are this administration's specialty - You're in luck!

Found RFK's lemmy account.

Haha, as if they could afford armor.

Should have kept the Armour other places are dangerous as well.

Describe what changed

Yet somehow Australia still has the reputation of being the country where everything can and will kill you.

Shit, I don’t know, I’m not sure I’m intelligent enough to answer that but I think I’d need to put a lot of time analyzing things. All of us kids would hang out at the co-op, park, or miniature park stuffed between two stores on Main Street, like every evening/night. I’d get off work washing dishes and walk across the street and just hang out with whoever was there. Like nobody needed to be your friend or whatever to hang out and shoot the shit before going home. Everyone just accepted folks and would watch out for each other shit. The worst we ever did back then was walk down Main Street (it had middle of the road parking in addition to store front pull in parking) at night and open up all the cars to turn their radio volume knob’s up to Max so when folks left the bar to turn their car on the radio was playing whatever station on full blast.

I don’t know, just simpler times I feel like. Folks growing up these days are having to deal with so much extra shit, I don’t think a lot of kids are getting to enjoy being kids anymore and it’s gotta be fucking with their heads.

Bold of you to assume you survived

In Australia everything can kill you. In America it's mostly guns.

But what about online college?

Sniper slowly takes aim

Keep thinking. Look around when you are out in public see if you notice anything .

And here I thought that boss fight where he temporarily lifted up his protection breifly wasnt realistic.

... But really I'd keep the armor. Kent states trying to make a comeback.

... And then after that there's ICE.

... And then ...

Clearly progressive terrorist behavior. The FBI is en route.

After that there's ICE

He says. As if school children aren't already a primary target...

Head pedo in charge is really uh... F*cking kids any way he can. Bombs, imprisonment, and so much more.

Edit: Really wanted to spoiler that last part but the editor hates me.

Reminds me of the guy who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb and was then sent for treatment to a hospital in ... Nagasaki.

Reminds me of the time I came home at 5:30 AM to my apartment in center city Philadelphia and saw a bread roll neatly tucked under the windshield wiper of every car parked along South Street. Nobody seems to know this, but the bakery that makes the rolls for all those Philly cheesesteaks just dumps transparent plastic bags full of rolls on the sidewalk in front of each restaurant in the early hours, and some wag just decided to put them to better use. I'm genuinely surprised I only saw that once.

I graduated in the '80s. Most of the deaths were due to steering column impalements. Kids mostly drove cars from the '70s and '60s that didn't have the refinement of the collapsing steering column, and almost nobody wore their seat belts. And drunk driving was still harmless fun.

Practice makes perfect?