The images would be horrific, but just like Emmett Till's mother's courage to have an open casket to awaken the eyes of white America, so does doing so again, awaken the consciousness of gun violence in schools and places of worship.
The images would be horrific, but just like Emmett Till's mother's courage to have an open casket to awaken the eyes of white America, so does doing so again, awaken the consciousness of gun violence in schools and places of worship.
Exactly! The reason so many people protested the Vietnam war and forced it's end is because war journalists sent back pictures and video of the horror!
That’s what it might take. As a nurse I got an up close look at what a bullet does to a young man’s body when he is paralyzed for life. And that’s survivors.
Sad, but quite true...."dead children" are somewhere out there, but not a visual for most of us who've never seen an assault weapon's capability to savage a small body!!!
During WWII it took Life magazine nearly 2 years before it finally showed pics of dead US soldiers, lying half buried in sand in the Pacific. The editors had a note in the issue that the images 'may be disturbing and uncomfortable, but we feel it is important to show the sacrifices, the (cont)
ULTIMATE sacrifices our soldiers are making in this war." Now people lose all their shit if a bloody wall or shirt is seen, bleating, "I WAS SO TRIGGERED!!" "THIS HAD ME SHAKING MY PTSD WHY!!!!!" SPARE ME. Actually, its wonderful if you feel sick and disguste3d and shake. But NOT because (cont)
someone had the fucking gall to take a pic or post it or it appears in the paper, but rather the reason FOR the bloody shirt or wall, the shitsack with the gun shooting children who are piled up. THAT, the person shooting and the gun, THAT is worth whinging and bleating about. But we never (cont)
get to that previous point, the repulsiveness of someone with a gun mowing down innocent people, because the Dems ALWAYS fall for the NRA/Reps/cons trap. EVERY. SINGLE. GODDAMN. TIME. And the Dems are too mewly to even DARE to try and pivot we ALWAYS get the "TOO SOON!" bullshit.