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This time, four months ago, It was a normal day. I was at my office getting a booklet made for each of my coworkers that would show their growth in their skills to help get them raises. 2 hours from then, Id get a call that would shatter my world. My wife called, screaming
Theres a shooter at Uzis school. I told my lead I had to go as I was running to my car. As I hauled ass towards the school, I got another call. Hes in the fourth grade hallway, and I cant get ahold of Uzi! The shots rang through my phone as my wife was telling me this.
By the time I made it to town I received a third call. They arent letting us see or get the kids, go to the civic center. I headed there, not knowing it would be 8 hours of sitting and hoping. As bus loads of children got off, Uzis class never made it.
I called my other 10 yo and asked him to call his friends to see if they had heard from Uzi. He said they hadnt but had heard it was Uzis teacher that was shot. I knew. I knew then that my little boy wasnt coming home. I knew that I was going to receive the news I had always
Dreaded. Then we hear Greg Abbott on FB confirming 14 deaths, and as we looked around the civic center, you start noticing 13 other families. I knew. At 7:30 to 8 we got called back to another room. I knew. To hear the words Im sorry but Uziyah didnt make it. is the moment
my world crumbled. They had made a liar out of me. I always tell my kids that I will protect them and nothing could stop me. I was made a liar, by the school system, by the cops, and by that piece of shit shooter. I snuck out the back to avoid media and went and grabbed my car.
I picked my wife up at the back, and drove home. A 3 minute drive I had to figure out how I was going to tell my other kids that their brother wasnt coming home. My grief is incomparable to the moment I had to tell them. Some dropped to their knees, one ran to the backyard
One helped me hold the little ones. The wail of my daughter is a sound that stays with me, just the same as hearing the shots. Its the unimaginable. The wail that informed the world that she was broken. Then a daze came. The next few days I dont remember much except for sitting
on my porch running reporters off. Its a daze that still comes over me at times, as I try to escape reality for a few moments just to come crashing back down with the reality that my little boy will never walk back in this house.
Its been 4 months. And nothings changed. Nobody is being held accountable. Nothing has been done. Us parents should be at home grieving to the fullest, yet we are having to fight every entity imaginable. Im exhausted. I break down. I have panic attacks that are
devastating. But I have to fight. And I will not stop until real change has been made, and even then I will continue. Our kids deserve better. We deserve better. Its been 4 months!
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)sheshe2
(83,924 posts)It was a very difficult read. You could hear the father's pain.
So heartbreaking.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,567 posts)Initech
(100,104 posts)It's high time the NRA and their stupid A+ ratings system were kicked to the curb. This shit has to stop.
LittleGirl
(8,291 posts)japple
(9,841 posts)It's too close to elections. No one will give up their guns. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.................
Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)"Too early to talk about this, let the families grieve in peace"
or
"Are you still on about that? It's history!"
until it affects them directly.
erronis
(15,335 posts)There is a solution.
Australia and UK have enacted tough gun laws and they have far fewer mass murders than the US.
Perhaps only Russia/USSR is a larger mass murderer. And Russia/NRA/(r)epuglicons are responsible for the lack of gun control in the US.
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,773 posts)Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)The NRA and the politicians they bought can go straight to Hell, along with the gun nuts who vote for them.
Cha
(297,692 posts)brer cat
(24,606 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,636 posts)JoeOtterbein
(7,702 posts)...(tears)
crickets
(25,983 posts)Abbot has got to go. He won't do a damned thing. Beto will.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)I am 60 years old.
My son was a wild one, but recently my grandson bested me in a way my son never did.
I had 5 people watching the grandson at the water park while I went to put my swim suit on. I came back and could not find him any where. Never, ever lost a kid near water. EVER.
I told my sister, "I CAN'T FIND HIM!!" and it was a wail like I knew he was dead or taken. I was freaking out. It had only been about 10 minutes, but 10 minutes under water is a death sentence.
They got everyone out of the water and we looked everywhere again.
We found him.
But if, if....
I can't even imagine.
How those parents don't storm in somewhere and practice their second amendment rights on someone is a testament to the REAL HEROES in all of this, parents who go from one day to the next without their child and don't go completely bonkers.