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Steve @rapidlydownhill.bsky.social

Not a single child lost its life in a UK school since 1996 to a firearm. Between 1947 and 1996 the total was 23. This includes the perpetrators. It’s not difficult to achieve. You just have to be willing. The USA is unwilling.

aug 27, 2025, 9:23 pm • 4 2

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Rose Lee @dm1920.bsky.social

Our Congress is owned, corrupt, and our system broken. I'm in my seventies. I have personally been at a workplace murder-suicide, an armed robbery at a store, and a college incident n which the professor was permanently paralyzed by an angry student all from guns. #america

aug 27, 2025, 9:40 pm • 2 0 • view
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Steve @rapidlydownhill.bsky.social

The trauma this brings on a national level, day in, day out is immeasurable. I can’t imagine how that affects you. I simply can’t begin to process or calculate. I’m happy to take a DM. I’m not religious but send heartfelt blessings.

aug 27, 2025, 9:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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Rose Lee @dm1920.bsky.social

I am now a Buddhist. My first year of college our government killed students at Kent State. This nation, indeed many colonial western nations, have a long history of violence. Unfortunately the US as a very capitalist society seems stuck. Trump is a world threat. Thank you for your kind words. 🙏🌸

aug 27, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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Steve @rapidlydownhill.bsky.social

I’m fascinated by Buddhism. I like the fact that it’s almost a non-religion. Violence has no place in a civil society. I’ve abhorred it all my life. I’m 56.

aug 27, 2025, 9:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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Rose Lee @dm1920.bsky.social

I find if I practice the teachings it calms the storms around me. I do of course get angry as we all do but I am able to remember what insignificance to the whole I am. We are all connected.

aug 27, 2025, 10:05 pm • 2 0 • view