There has been one school shooting in Scotland in recent memory. Only one that I can recall.

And after that we restriced gun control and made owning a handgun and a semi automatic weapon prohibited.

And there hasn’t been a mass/school shooting in Scotland since. Not to mention that firarm violence/deaths are incredibly rare.

It is mind boggling to me that the US can have 38 mass shootings in half a year and still do nothing. 

#I was just saying this the other day#I'm hearing stories about Dunblane THROUGH MY PARENTS!#As if it's history and all that#YET THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN THE US!#DO SOMETHING! (via HollowShadowWolf)

We need to stop blaming clothing for crimes.

If a girl gets raped, we tell our daughters that the length of her skirt is to blame. If two misfits shoot up a school, we tell our children to avoid people in trenchcoats. If gang crimes occur, school dress codes outlaw red and blue. If a young person of color gets shot and killed, we tell them that young people of color shouldn’t wear hoodies.

Guess what? No matter what we tell our kids to wear or judge in others’ appearances, these crimes still happen more than even our media reports. The skirt didn’t cause the rape. The trenchcoats didn’t kill students and teachers. The colors red and blue are ideas and therefore cannot jump someone. And, for crying out loud, a young person of color wearing a hooded sweatshirt and carrying something in his pocket is not reason enough to call the police and chase the kid. That’s embarrassing and backwards.

If we want to even approach equality, we need to make an effort to stop profiling people; however, if we say certain articles of clothing make us suspicious or susceptible to crime, we are encouraging certain stereotypes and allowing them to interfere with the process of the law. If we say that a person’s perceived race in tandem with a certain piece of clothing is cause for suspicion, that’s racial profiling interfering with the process of the law in addition to social stereotypes.

I would love to send a white boy of the same age and size in the same hoodie with a candy bar in his pocket walking down George Zimmerman’s street at the same time Trayvon Martin did and see what would happen.