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Surviving A Mass Shooting [1]

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Date: 2022-12-02

Managing the stress of mass carnage

Well, this is going to be my first attempt at presenting a story. I chose this topic, not because it hasn’t already been discussed here, but because it is lingering on my heart and gnawing at my gut.

It’s about what is going on with the survivors of the Uvalde, Texas school shooting, and how poorly it was mishandled by law enforcement. There are consequences for each action. This is about one of those consequences.

Some of the survivors, many of them minors, of the Robb elementary school carnage have filed a class action lawsuit against the school district’s PD, the Texas DPS, and several police lieutenants and other officers.

Sandra Cruz Torres filed a federal lawsuit on November 28. The maker and seller of the weapon are also included in the lawsuit.

As you may recall, 19 kids, and 2 teachers were killed. 17 more were injured, to different levels of severity of physical and emotional damage.

The plaintiffs, who are parents, teachers, staff members, and 30 students, claim that law enforcement agents were negligent in neutralizing the in a safe and timely matter, leading to further trauma.

376 law enforcement officials of different ranks arrived on the scene, but none of them acted for a period of 70 minutes! They were more concerned about being shot, than they were about kids and other victims who WERE being shot. They even stopped and prevented parents, under threat of arrest, from going in to try and rescue their children. Some of them even discussed their fear of being shot, or shot at. One of them was even video recorded washing his hands at a hand cleaner station.

This is tantamount to using the kids as human shields by the police. This is pure, unadulterated cowardice. This is proof of evidence for immediate and permanent dismissal from any job, especially a police department. It has been reported that the Chief of City Police was forced to resign in disgrace.

According to the wording of the lawsuit, victims and survivors of the shooting, “sustained emotional and psychological damages as a result of the defendants’ conduct and omissions on that date.”

These kids are emotionally scarred and suffering from fear, chronic anxiety, nightmares, and separation anxiety. They will never be the same. Their innocent childhood has been stolen from them. They are in mental anguish.

One of the young plaintiffs, who saw his teacher die, has refused to leave the house, or his parents side, he obsessively locks doors and pulls shades, and sleeps in his parent’s bedroom, ever since the massacre. A huge part of his life is damaged, possibly for life.

The lawsuit also extends to a $6 billion suit against the gun manufacturer, Daniel Defense, and Oasis Outback, which sold the firearm to the shooter. Daniel Defense ostensibly markets its guns to kids by likening the guns to military-grade guns!

Allegedly, Oasis Outback missed several “blatantly obvious red flags” during the sale.

The attorneys presenting the lawsuit, and the plaintiffs, hope that this demands “accountability and systemic policy changes.”

To me, civil lawsuits cannot solve this problem, nor do much to ease the pain. Ultimately, the school’s district will feel the blunt of the lawsuit, and the taxpayers will bear the responsibility. This is unfair, at least in part. The law officers were complaisant in mass murder, buy failing to do their jobs. Each and every one of them should be charged, tried, and if guilty, sentenced to prison for their crimes of negligence in a deadly situation, leaving the populace at extreme risk, and CAUSING FURTHER DEATH AND INJURY.

Thank you. I welcome you comments and corrections.

Source: 1440 Daily Digest, December 2nd

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