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SickOfTheOnePct

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12. No sympathy for the shooter...

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 08:01 AM

Aug 28

...but sympathy for their parents.

I've lost a child - there is no pain like it, no matter how it happens. You love your kids, even when they do something that is abhorrent to you.

So to not only lose their child and feel that pain, but to know that the child inflicted that pain on other families? I'm not sure how anyone gets through that.

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