Note: Yes. Again.Adriana Gamondes wrote this searing three part post several years ago. She had a style that could not compare. Unfortunately, we have to recycle it as mass shootings have worsened. If any readers have been in contact with.
while the government is doing nothing, the internet is hard at work in many cases making our kids more isolated, and in some cases, radicalized. i want to share a bit from my colleague jake ward, who is an nbc technology correspondent, speaking specifically on the impact the internet is having on our kids. watch this. the research has shown that for a child isolated from their family or their community in this nation and at this time, social media and the internet is a way for them, in some cases, find community and resources. but in the darkest possible circumstances, it is a place for them to find conspiracy theories, ideologies, communities of like-minded people who might inspire them in some cases to take what are some very dark thoughts and carry them into supportive action. harold, how do we deal with this? stephanie, we knew before
60 days ago. there was a budget related to helping kids with mental health, he cut it by almost a quarter of a billion dollars, two months ago. i think that they re doing everything possible to distract from the fundamental problem, which is access to guns by people that should not have guns. that is the fundamental problem. everything else that they point to is a distraction from what is sitting in the middle of the room. then, harold, as parents, how do we understand when it is a situation where maybe our own children and teens are suffering? coming out a covid, everyone is suffering. i think we should step back for a second and know that every country in the world has children and adults with mental health problems. only the united states has these mass shootings and this remarkable gun violence. as someone who knows something about teenage brains, there is
i am scapegoating. for the last 25 years, we have been having the same discussion. i am all in favor of having more mental health services for children and teenagers in the united states. we have a shortage of mental health professionals. it is worse now since covid, but that is not what is causing this school shootings and gun violence. nicole, i know we are out of time. but i see you re nodding your head. when we have a shooting like we had this week, or last week in buffalo, do you ever question about the work you re doing in the sandy hook promise? do you ever wonder if it s making an impact, because things don t seem to change? no, i never question it, because i know for a fact we re having an impact. i know how many lives we ve saved. i know how many school shootings we ve averted, and i know it s a solution and the model that absolutely works, but it just needs to be scaled. it s about that. it s about getting that teaching out to more people. it can t prevent everything, bu