Harry Dresden
Adamantium Member
True. But an individual tragedy does not make the waves a massacre does. That does not diminish the depths of sadness and horror of the individual shooting. But, as I said, 20 rings louder than one.Sadly, it's a numbers game. 20 rings out louder than one.
As I said before, women and children and men were killed in industrial accidents before the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. But when the death toll rings up the shocking numbers all at once, attention is paid and causes congeal. It's not a race problem, it's a gun violence problem.
And just as the rural White fifth grader killed by his father's improperly secured shotgun does not make the national news, the urban Black fifth grader shot in cross fire does not attract national attention. The two kids are still dead at the barrel of a gun. But if 20 kids are shot at once, the problem is magnified, be they Black, Latino, White, Asian or Aborigine.
20 rings out louder than one.
one?.....add up how many inner city kids are killed or wounded because of gun violence in a month around the Country and i think you will find it comes out to more than one
you do realize that you are mirroring the attitude of the lawmakers around the Country...."those 30 non white kids who were shot last month,as tragic as that may be.....lets wait until a group of them are shot.....then we will talk".....