Mom who lost 3 kids in Louisiana shooting still has a bullet lodged in her face, cousin says

The woulda coulda shouldas will never stop even if they aren’t warranted at all, which I’m guessing they aren’t

Now imagine a whole bunch of people like Alex Jones never shuts up about how your tragedy is a lie. Your sorrow is just an act. You're a liar. Your kids never existed or are liars. People call and threaten you and insult you and spit on you. All of that on top of the grief you have because your kids had the terrible terrible luck of being murdered.

Yeah, I have kids. Things would never be ok again. I'm pretty positive I couldn't go on.

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Yeah I don't think the news articles are the problem here

Zero empathy in the headlines

I don’t think I could, to be honest. I would simply lose the will to live.

Amnesia is more often temporary.

We had to do the same for my grandmother after my grandfather passed. At first they tried to tell her, but every time she would faint and it had such a negative impact on her health and was so distressing for her. It's such a difficult thing to watch happen.

My mom has to tell my grandma almost every day that my grandpa is at work or out in the hills for work because her alzheimer’s is so bad :(

My dad is quite far along with dementia, but he seems happy with it. He’s forgotten my ex-wife ever existed but remembers and adores my current wife, so he is apparently managing to hold on to happier memories for now.

What…? The mom I’m referring to did not move past the death of her children. What are you talking about? She’s still very active in the community, talks about her children constantly, spent years trying to get barriers installed, and has a foundation where they raise money for scholarships in her children’s names.

What a monstrous thing to say. Clearly you don’t have kids.

Continuing to exist does not mean not carrying grief. Consider yourself fortunate if you don’t understand. Unfortunately, the odds are not in your favor.

I’ve always felt like these men are too cowardly to simply take themselves out, so they do unspeakably horrible things that they know their life can never come back from. And only then can they take themselves out

A lot of times it's a response to feeling like they've lost some kind of control, usually of the other parent, but sometimes also of the kids or other relatives. This is a final, monstrous act of "if I can't have them, no one can" writ large.

I don't doubt that one bit. And it's honestly not much different from the other Republican representation that the state has. My husband and I are from South Louisiana and it's just insane to see how little the reps care about their constituents. They literally only care about the rich white people and the local businesses. And it's every single one of them regardless of which office they hold. Doesn't matter if it's Mike Johnson or Kennedy or Cassidy or Landry. I understand that's the current MO for modern day Republicans, but f*** even 20ish years ago the Republican reps would at least pretend to care about their constituents. My husband and I left and moved way the f*** up to a very blue area in the PNW and it was one of the best decisions we've ever made. Even though we're happy up here we still really miss things back home. I'm going off on a bit of a tangent here but god damn Louisiana means *SO MUCH* to me, it has such an amazing potential to be an extremely rich and prosperous state. All of those massive businesses and factories and refineries have billions and billions of dollars flowing through them up and down the Mississippi. But instead it's just this massive racial divide with half the money being squandered away by the rich and the other half going to outside interests.

This. Especially in Shreveport.

I live in louisiana.  Its 50th for a reason. Don't defend it.

COVID brought out spikes of crime nationwide. You can ignore the fact that your republcian mayor arrived and crime literally spiked in 2023, and simply is still higher than normal for the last couple years vs decades of averages But okay.