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Manish Vij
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A woman who survived a school shooting in California as a high school freshman in 2001 found herself reliving that trauma on Thursday as she comforted her two sons after they survived the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School.
A woman who survived a school shooting in California as a high school freshman in 2001 found herself reliving that trauma on Thursday as she comforted her two sons after they survived the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School.

What a country cnn.com/2026/10/16/us/live-new

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Manish Vij
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Michelle's fifth-grade son called her from his Apple Watch at 1 p.m. local time on Thursday and said, "Mom, there's a shooterẠỊ
Michelle's fifth-grade son called her from his Apple Watch at 1 p.m. local time on Thursday and said, "Mom, there's a shooterẠỊ

PM to John Apple: There’s good news and bad news

Ternus: What’s the good news

PM: We found a use case for calls on  Watch

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Carolyn
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@vij “ This is the 36th shooting on K-12 school grounds across the United States this year…”

Nothing says “we love our kids” more than giving a gun more rights than a child.

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Matt Hall
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Fucking outstanding.

We've found a way to make school fucking shootings a generational trauma.

Are we fucking great again yet?

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Bellegray Lane
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@vij murica’n fuckin’ dream!

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Daragh
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@vij At what point will they just rebrand them as "Freedom Shootings" because I don't really see anyone doing much to treat school shootings like an actual problem they might want to address.

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Manish Vij
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@daraghhayes They effectively have already (“just the price we pay for a free society”)

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Joseph
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@vij@sfba.social Just ban the guns; and to the second amendment fools who inevitably pop out with the "tyrannical government" line, you've done nothing to stop Trump and his ICE goons, so get in the bin.