Credible Threat

On Mother's day seven years ago, the threat was credible enough that I called the cops and had the guns taken away.

The threat wasn't against me or my kids, but inwardly driven. 

The past couple of days there has been a credible threat that kept all students on the front range at home.  I understand credible threats, having experienced my own.

My feeling is that you do have to respond appropriately to credible threats and I'm glad the school districts did what they did.  I wonder about the woman from Florida who apparently was running naked through the woods with a gun and ended up dying by her own hand.  I wonder if she has never heard of ticks, because I don't know many people who would run through Colorado forests in the spring without some kind of clothing on. Guns may be okay protection, but not against a tick burrowing into your skin.

I wonder about that woman because it seems to me the end was inevitable.  She may have been threatening outwardly, but the display and the publicity suggest to me she wanted the notoriety as much as anything.  She got it and she got what she probably wanted, an end with a splash.

I'm not impressed.

I have seen some incredibly cogent and eloquent posts on social media about the most recent incident, and it reminds me of things I have written in the past...and that I feel I can't now.  I am so done with all of it.  Guns/no guns/deaths/threats I don't even know how to respond anymore.  It's such a circus and a horror.

Children raised in this period have maybe two choices, start running through the forests naked, or start fighting back, as the Parkland kids did last year.  I am firmly on the side of the young people from Parkland and elsewhere, because my own limits seem to have been reached.