i think the bigger issue is there is a firearm homicide (sometimes with 2-4 victims) every 54 minutes in our country and we’ve just tuned it out. we only care about the high profile ones (like this one) where there are > 4 victims and ONLY at certain places (like schools, certain businesses, etc).
a ton of this stuff happens in places we don’t care about. i just counted and there were 38 other gun incidents today. last time i counted for a day the number was 70something. the people wounded by gun fire is drastically higher.
so, you’ll find that many people have determined that a guy getting his face blown off is a local story and not a national story. think about that. someone being slaughtered is now considered so common it’s only local news.
that’s sick.
