User blog:Goldentrash/Official Statement from the Prime Minister on the Tokki Studio shooting



November 21, 2017

Yesterday afternoon, a terrible crime was committed at the Tokki Studios headquarters in Providencia where thirty-six people were senselessly murdered in an act many of us are still trying to garner some understanding of. I have declared a state of mourning be issued for one week in memory of those we lost tonight. They were not only your fellow citizens, but brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, husbands, and wives. No one can truly understand the pain that their families must be going through that this very moment. I have invited them all to the Getty House where we will be holding a candlelight vigil sometime this week.

These thirty-six people were employees of Tokki Studios, a company that produces animated television shows which are broadcast to millions of Sierrans. They woke up on Monday morning and went to work to entertain us and create light in our lives with the stories they helped to tell. That day, that light was robbed from us, by a man who let his obsessions consume him. Although you may be feeling anger towards his actions, as you should, I ask you, even for a moment, to pity a man who's circumstances in life led him to believe committing this act was somehow a noble thing to do. While things seem most dark, happiness can be found only if one remembers to turn on the light, which is what we are going to do, which is what Tokki Studios will do. We will not let such heinous acts permanently rob us of the joy and happiness we experience through fiction.

This incident I believe should shed light on a crisis we currently experience in our mental health support. So many of our fellow citizens feel trapped and lost in their own minds, feeling no other choice but to lash out at a society that seems to have forgotten them. To anyone who may be considering, or have considered, doing what this man did yesterday, I say this: You are not forgotten. You are loved. If you wish to harm yourself or others, please seek help. The national suicide hotline is 1-800-392-0909. Make the call and you will be connected to someone who will lend you a caring ear. Mental health support is something I plan to work with my colleagues in Parliament which I hope, rather what I know, is an issue that has bipartisan attention.

Right now I ask you to join me in a moment of silence as we pray for the victims, their families, and their co-workers at Tokki Studios.

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God bless you, and God bless the Kingdom of Sierra.

Nemesis Heartwell, Prime Minister of Sierra.