Is anyone else just... numb to mass shootings in the US by now?
Like we just have *so many* of them, we've been having them for decades now, the results are always the same: people dead, pain & dread & national outrage, & then... we do nothing to prevent it from happening again. Absolutely nothing. & then it inevitably happens again... and again... and again... and again... lather, rinse, repeat.
It's like collectively we're just fine with mass shootings in the US, or if we aren't "fine" with them, it's like we're powerless to affect change, because whoever actually *could* make a difference, whoever's in the position(s) of power to do that, they simply refuse.
Incidentally, if I end up being killed in a mass shooting, I hereby give ppl permission to politicize the ever-loving fuck out of my death. You want to use it as fodder in the case against unrestrained firearms zealotry in the US? Go for it.
