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    1. Nick Harkaway‏ @Harkaway Feb 26

      But today this kid who likes guns is bad news. I say - because I’m an idiot adult - don’t play with the gun kid. We get on the bus.

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    2. Nick Harkaway‏ @Harkaway Feb 26

      Everything is fine until I try to leave him in the school. Then he’s sad. He has an emergency stare which is to let me know It Is Not Okay. I get the stare. I ask if he’s okay. He’s not.

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    3. Nick Harkaway‏ @Harkaway Feb 26

      We discuss the not okayness. It’s elusive. He’s four. Sometimes it’s just Weltschmerz.

      3 replies 67 retweets 1,278 likes
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    4. Nick Harkaway‏ @Harkaway Feb 26

      But finally my slow, lumbering pre-coffee morning brain clicks in and I start modelling my son’s thinking properly and I get it. I get the edges of it first because I live in London.

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    5. Nick Harkaway‏ @Harkaway Feb 26

      And so when I ask him, and he answers, I have to follow his eyes around the classroom and realise that he’s four. All spaces are one space. All classrooms are one classroom.

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    6. Nick Harkaway‏ @Harkaway Feb 26

      “What are you scared of? It’s okay. I’ll fix it.” “Guns.” And he looks around the room, because he is scared someone will come into his London school and shoot him and his friends.

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    7. Nick Harkaway‏ @Harkaway Feb 26

      And I say, because I can say this, but for the first time really understanding how much that matters: “It’s okay. That doesn’t happen here. This is London, that’s America. We don’t let people have guns.”

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    8. Nick Harkaway‏ @Harkaway Feb 26

      And he smiles and goes off to play and I look around the classroom and for the first time in a long, long time I thank the god I do not believe in that I live on this grey, sometimes sensible little island.

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    9. Nick Harkaway‏ @Harkaway Feb 26

      But now I can’t stop thinking about all the people I know in the US who have that same moment with their kids and cannot say that, and the sheer weight of how that must be is staggering. I cannot begin to grasp it.

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    10. Nick Harkaway‏ @Harkaway Feb 26

      My son is four. We live in London. But this morning he was scared of America’s guns.

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      Jane McGonigal‏Verified account @avantgame Feb 26
      Replying to @Harkaway

      My kids are 3. I'm planning to move from US if this is not meaningfully addresses by the time they are of enough for kindergarten

      9:06 AM - 26 Feb 2018 from Oakland, CA
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