Well, not if you can't fully relate or realize that those kids weren't entirely special. I felt bad yeah, and it bothered me that this fuck could do this, however, I know that there are children - in THIS country - dying all of the time. Being shot, being starved, being beat, being neglected
In fact, there are innocent people dying of violent crimes in my neighborhood and in every state in the damned US practically every day. It does bother me that no one seems to care about guns, kids or violence until it starts to affect pretty, rich white people. Oh, NOW everyone cares. Well you're such a GOOD person...
I think people would be just as disturbed if a gunman wiped out a kindergarten class anywhere in the country urban, rural, rich, poor, black, white, hispanic, asian,etc... It wasn't a tragic accident. It was someone's premeditated act. Its just so fucked up that something like that would cross someone's mind and then they'd actually carry it out.
There are a lot of murders of adults and children that I wouldn't classify as tragic accidents. They're just not on the news.
I don't disagree with you and I don't feel it makes Sandy Hook less important, but if there was so much outcry over a lot of cases that aren't important enough to get on the news, cases like drive bys where oh hey, it's that neighborhood, not unusual, maybe we would actually get things done.
A kid being killed with many others in one day in a nice area is more important than a kid being smothered to death or being the victim of gun violence on their own. Maybe people would be disturbed but they'd never know. The media doesn't care about kids in broke families in bad areas where that kind of stuff "just happens". A shooting that hits kids in the ghetto? "Tell me something I don't know" is the press attitude.
And it's not important enough for people to look into on their own. Children die grim deaths here everyday. Who notices? No one. They're not important.
Is it normal I didn't mourn for Sandy Hook?
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Well, not if you can't fully relate or realize that those kids weren't entirely special. I felt bad yeah, and it bothered me that this fuck could do this, however, I know that there are children - in THIS country - dying all of the time. Being shot, being starved, being beat, being neglected
In fact, there are innocent people dying of violent crimes in my neighborhood and in every state in the damned US practically every day. It does bother me that no one seems to care about guns, kids or violence until it starts to affect pretty, rich white people. Oh, NOW everyone cares. Well you're such a GOOD person...
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I think people would be just as disturbed if a gunman wiped out a kindergarten class anywhere in the country urban, rural, rich, poor, black, white, hispanic, asian,etc... It wasn't a tragic accident. It was someone's premeditated act. Its just so fucked up that something like that would cross someone's mind and then they'd actually carry it out.
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There are a lot of murders of adults and children that I wouldn't classify as tragic accidents. They're just not on the news.
I don't disagree with you and I don't feel it makes Sandy Hook less important, but if there was so much outcry over a lot of cases that aren't important enough to get on the news, cases like drive bys where oh hey, it's that neighborhood, not unusual, maybe we would actually get things done.
A kid being killed with many others in one day in a nice area is more important than a kid being smothered to death or being the victim of gun violence on their own. Maybe people would be disturbed but they'd never know. The media doesn't care about kids in broke families in bad areas where that kind of stuff "just happens". A shooting that hits kids in the ghetto? "Tell me something I don't know" is the press attitude.
And it's not important enough for people to look into on their own. Children die grim deaths here everyday. Who notices? No one. They're not important.