Shooting will become part of Chardon's life story
CHARDON, Ohio - Counselors, educators and experts who have lived through the aftermath of school shootings say the shootings leave deep trauma and require long-term healing.
"They are forever changed. In what direction, I do not know. But they will have to form a new identity. It is not going to be easy," Ann Bauer, associate professor and chair of the Department of Counseling, Administration, Supervision & Adult Learning at Cleveland State University's College of Education, said about the students, staff, parents and community members impacted by Monday's school shooting at Chardon High School.
Bauer knows first-hand the long-term scars left by a school shooting. She and her colleagues provided counseling for students, school staff and other members of the community following the March 24, 1998 shooting that left five students dead and 10 others injured at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas....
This scenario just won't end for the USA and those that sell guns and ammunition do NOTHING to change the dogma that surrounds the gun culture.
..."It is a chronic condition that comes back every so often. On the Monday morning of the Chardon shooting, I was right back and I could see the faces of the parents who drove away with their kids" from Westside Middle School in 1998, Bauer said....
Chronic problems in the USA that takes lives, young lives, lives full of hope and ambition, cannot be dismissed as 'one of those things that happens in the USA.'
Solving these problems requires people that are WILLING to tackle the problem. They need to be more than faithful, they need to be dedicated to the purpose of ending 'the violence culture' within the USA. The Gun Lobby cannot be viewed as anything but dangerous to the people, especially children, of the USA.
There are those within the 'power structure' of the country that view 'incidences' such as this as an 'odds' issue. In other words, sooner or later, such problems will occur and there is simply nothing that can be done. That is a lie. There is plenty to be done. These same people have no answers. They have no ideas and support the lucrative practice of gun sales.
Do I have to go through the exercise of listing all the schools? No. That would simply add to the victimization of the students and community. Do I have to go through the exercise of listing all the dead? No. That would simply involve innocent people in more pain when they should have or are healing.
Every American voter knows the problem. It could be a neighbor, a friend, a peer or a child now dead and we all know the dreaded reality of the violence that unleashes in our society, especially among children, students and the very hope for our nation to be a great nation.
I find the resolve by the USA Congress to recognize the violence unleashed on Gabrielle Giffords by some lame legislation to inhibit planes from carrying weapons to the USA a travesty. As far as I am concerned the measure is meaningless.
Chronic problems in the USA that takes lives, young lives, lives full of hope and ambition, cannot be dismissed as 'one of those things that happens in the USA.'
Solving these problems requires people that are WILLING to tackle the problem. They need to be more than faithful, they need to be dedicated to the purpose of ending 'the violence culture' within the USA. The Gun Lobby cannot be viewed as anything but dangerous to the people, especially children, of the USA.
There are those within the 'power structure' of the country that view 'incidences' such as this as an 'odds' issue. In other words, sooner or later, such problems will occur and there is simply nothing that can be done. That is a lie. There is plenty to be done. These same people have no answers. They have no ideas and support the lucrative practice of gun sales.
...The State of Virginia’s repeal (click here) of a law limiting handgun sales to one weapon per buyer per month is sheer , bloody madness. And very bad news for New York.
Virginia is already the single biggest supplier of guns used by criminals in the city. Up the so-called Iron Pipeline, otherwise known as Interstate 95, gunrunners transport illegal firearms into the five boroughs, selling them in dark alleys and out of the backs of vans, to wreak death and destruction on the populace....
Do I have to go through the exercise of listing all the schools? No. That would simply add to the victimization of the students and community. Do I have to go through the exercise of listing all the dead? No. That would simply involve innocent people in more pain when they should have or are healing.
Every American voter knows the problem. It could be a neighbor, a friend, a peer or a child now dead and we all know the dreaded reality of the violence that unleashes in our society, especially among children, students and the very hope for our nation to be a great nation.
I find the resolve by the USA Congress to recognize the violence unleashed on Gabrielle Giffords by some lame legislation to inhibit planes from carrying weapons to the USA a travesty. As far as I am concerned the measure is meaningless.
WASHINGTON -- Two days before resigning from Congress, (click here) Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) on Tuesday announced her final piece of legislation aimed at cracking down on cross-border drug smugglers.
Giffords, who is stepping down to focus on her recovery from the January 2011 Tucson shootings that nearly took her life, said the bill would impose new penalties on smugglers who use small, low-flying aircraft to illegally bring drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border.
The bill is set for a House vote on Wednesday morning, according to Giffords' office, and the congresswoman will be there to vote on it as her last official act as a member of Congress....
Cross border weapons traffic didn't injure Gabby or kill a child along with others that day; Wal-mart did along with the liberal gun laws of the GOP. Gun trafficking didn't have a damn thing to do with the nearly deadly violence released against our former Representative to the USA House.
How many times now is the USA going to have empty legislation used as a tool for politics of the Plutocracy to win the day. The legislation passed into law, empty meaningless legislation is a victory for the Plutocratic Gun Lobby.
When there was still yet another school shooting in the USA, I could nearly hear the political media go 'Oh, dear god, we don't want to go there again, do we? I mean there is not a darn thing anyone is going to do about it anyway.'
Our politics is corrupted by the powerful, the wealthy. We are witnessing a GOP candidate purchase his way into nomination and then Michael Steele has the nerve to state, "We planned a long primary process to allow the underdog to compete." Sure and I was born yesterday.
The USA electorate has to take themselves seriously enough to realize they are being manipulated into believing they are too 'under qualified' to vote for the opposition to the wealthy. The American public doesn't know what is best for them anymore. They are allowed to organize and make noise, sometimes, but not to really have a voice in the 'authority' of their own best interests.
The American electorate allow themselves to believe others can tell them what is best in their lives rather than relying on their own experiences, insight and intelligence.
The violence that continues to take our young people from us is a clear example of corrupt politics that offers sympathy, but, without resolution. In the back halls of the NRA a sigh of relief is breathed to realize 'we got the politicians where we want them now.' That is not only immoral, it is a reality the electorate of the USA should not and cannot accept.
