KHTS Radio Santa Clarita Radio – Santa Clarita News
By: Carl Goldman and Jeri Seratti-Goldman
After living in Santa Clarita for over 30 years, dealing with earthquakes, fires, floods, tunnel explosions and tragedies such as a mother of six being killed by a teenage drunk driver, the Reynold boys losing their lives to reckless driving and the many kids who have been needlessly killed on our local streets, the Saugus shooting has rocked our world like no other event.
This violence leaves a different chord in our hearts. It has kept our minds in a state of what could we as a community have done to make a difference.
We’ve been through many drills with the first responders over the years. “What if we had another earthquake?” turned into, “What if there was a shooter?” We drilled with our City, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital and our schools. We never imagined it could happen in Santa Clarita. It was always somewhere else, at Columbine, Sandy Hook, the Parkland, Florida shooting, never really believing it could happen here. Yet it did. Santa Clarita is just as vulnerable and now we all get to reflect on how we made it that way.
We are heartbroken as we hear more stories from students and other heroes. We hear their pain. We mourned with the thousands at Sunday night’s vigil. We will work through this sadness and heal as a community, together.
It takes a village. Santa Clarita is a special, wonderful village. We all moved here to raise our children in a safe, secure, “family environment.” That shifted last Thursday. As we move forward our questions can turn to creating a new space. A space of being completely present. A space that allows our children to communicate in a different way with us. A space that gives them the opening to share their struggles and their pain.
Over the next few days, weeks and months, KHTS will share the many events, workshops, vigils and other possibilities to assist in the healing process. We are a community that comes together like no other in times of tragedy. Our healing has already begun as we now acknowledge each other differently; kinder and more loving.
The memory of these kids will stay in our hearts forever. We now get to create a way to memorialize them and keep them in our hearts forever, just as our Youth Grove has done for all the victims of drunk and reckless driving. “Saugus Strong” is really “Santa Clarita Strong.” Let’s turn this tragedy into a force that makes our valley stronger, more loving, caring and wiser.
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And yet the people in charge of our City want to keep expanding . Face it this town isn’t what it used to be and its out of control . Greed over public safety is what our town has turned into. More people more problems. Traffic is out of control , DUI’s are an everyday thing and not to mention the crime from our homeless problems. After 50 years of living out here were done.
the drug od’s are frightning.
Thinking this would not happen here was at best naive. with all the mass shootings throughout the nation it was only a matter of chance; and then it did. Why were we not more prepared? Why were more laws not passed to regulate firearms. Why do the citizens of this community sit back and allow this?
Government, local,state or national is not a spectator event; it is through the involvement of us that the wheels turn, or in our case remain stationary.
Again, if this is important to you, please make certain where your candidate stands on the issue of guns.
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Individual responsibility is also not a spectator event. Those violating the rules of a civil society are to be the target of punishment, not those abiding the rules of a civil society.
Denny. No firearm ever pulled it’s own trigger and no car ever drove itself but people like you want to place blame on the item. Are you screaming to take away the cars when they kill people everyday? Are there laws to prevent drunk driving and interlocks to keep people from starting their cars of course there is but do they still kill people? Yes. There are plenty of firearm laws that keep guns away from bad people but yet here why aren’t you blaming the mother because the shooter had access to a gun? Or blame the sheriff for not taking all the firearms out of the house when they removed them previously. Uninformed comments just show how ignorant you are and how informed conversation moves the ball
Jason-
The purpose of a car is transportation while the purpose of a gun is to render living beings dead. My post is about proactively taking action to prevent these kind of tragedies from occurring. I’m not suggesting banning either automobiles or guns, it’s about personal responsibility in the care and use of both.
btw- Guns have been know to accidentally discharge and we now have self-driving cars. You may have seen the story here a couple months back with the sleeping ‘driver’ cruising down the I-5 in a Tesla.
Who is the uninformed and ignorant one here?
I appreciate the thoughtful expression of this editorial. And I understand that it’s premature at this early healing stage. But true healing will only come when we find a way to forgive the shooter and extend compassion to his family. If he had an emerging mental health issue, those things are not easy for a parent to see sometimes. Children don’t come with a manual and sometimes mental health issues easily masquerade as the normal ebb and flow of adolescence. Great parents can miss signals, and sometimes there are not
signals. It would be good if instead of what is it, half a dozen counselors for all the Santa Clarita schools? If we funded robust mental health support for all the children of our beloved Santa Clarita Valley…. a school psychologist (full time) for every school. The stigma for seeking help with mental health must go, because we all need help from time to time… as the trauma of this horrific tragedy has demonstrated. Radical love….. sign me up. #radicallove
I am pathologically positive, but I am also keenly aware of the emotions that follow in the aftermath of the unimaginable. Additionally, I would never take a tragedy and use it as a springboard to discuss politics, city expansion, or any other hot button cause du jour. That’s me. I have endless respect for other people’s boundaries, but please, think about content and if you don’t have positive thoughts, words, and feelings to express…with the utmost respect, I beg you to take a seat for the moment. That being said, what works, what has been proven to be effective in healing the broken, the sad, the outcast, the infirmed, the struggling, the suffering is CONNECTION to COMMUNITY. Connection to community transforms lives. I have also lived in the SCV for over 30 years and as large in population as we may be getting, we still know our neighbors, look out for one another, and have a connection that I have not seen or experienced elsewhere in my travels. May the memory of those lost in this horrific event, forever serve as a blessing to family, friends, and our community. May those injured, recover fully in mind, body, and spirit. To the families…I wish them peace. You are forever etched in our hearts. Thank you for the editorial.
This boy was very bright. Taking AP classes, had many friends. A girlfriend. But something deep in his mind triggered this horrible event that touched so many lives. Did he need someone to talk to that wasn’t there? We’ll never know. But this one event shouldn’t label Santa Clarita as anything less than what it is and has always been. A great place to raise a family!
A shame, he supposedly had many friends and a ? Girlfriend & nobody noticed deep seated, odd behavior?!?! Nowadays, youngsters are taught not to “judge”, which is code for ignore aberrant behavior! They’re taught “ I’m OK, you’re OK, everything is right, nothing is wrong”—What happened to “ See something, say something “
With many young people listening to Gangster Rap (PC called hip hop to sell sell sell more) then emulating their styles, it’s hard to tell who’s going to blowup into violence!! Because behaving that way is supposedly cool/trendy!