Sophia Bush Instagram – Today’s anniversary is a tragic one.
From @marchforourlives: Sandy Hook wasn’t the first school shooting. It wasn’t the last. But it should have been the turning point. We’ve made progress, but it isn’t nearly enough. Too many of our “leaders” are willing to sell us out for their political gain. We won’t accept that. We deserve to grow up, and to grow up without the fear of gun violence.
For every Sandy Hook.
For every Uvalde.
For every community shattered by gun violence.
We honor the lives lost not just with our words but with action; because the best way to remember them is to fight like hell for a future where no child has to fear their classroom, and where no parent has to bury their child.
#SandyHook
・・・
And something to think on, as we examine what evil and what violence echo chambers of mis- and disinformation are capable of, especially when encouraged to rage bait for profit, from @guardian_us:
Robbie Parker’s six-year-old daughter Emilie was killed at Sandy Hook elementary school on 14 December 2012.
Parker was the first parent to voice his grief in public after the massacre – a decision that led to a decade-long struggle against the rightwing provocateur Alex Jones, who propagated the lie that he was a “crisis actor” and the entire shooting was a hoax to justify gun restrictions.
In 2022, Jones lost a series of defamation cases in Connecticut and Texas and was ordered to pay nearly $1.5bn in damages to the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims.
In that sense, Parker is a double survivor.
Now, Parker has written a book, A Father’s Fight, in an effort to “express what I see as a void in the world because she’s not there any more”. In an interview with the Guardian, Parker remembers Emilie as an extrovert who was speaking before she grew teeth and recounts his journey with grief in the many years since her death.
“Grief teaches you so much more than dealing with the loss of your loved one,” he reflects. “There’s this mutual level of respect between what it’s offered me and what I’ve learned from it. Opening yourself up to the entire process of grieving would be advice I wish I would have known.” | Posted on 14/Dec/2024 22:17:52
