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eli1601 · 70-79, M
Aren't there mass shootings every week. Chicago, Baltimore, etc?
REMsleep · 41-45, F
@eli1601 Some may disagree but I find drug related deaths and gun violence tied to gangs to be awful but vastly different than mass shootings. Number 1 I don't feel really sad for those who die due to being involved in drugs or gangs. From the Italian mafia to the Mexican cartel to the Japanese Yakuza to the Bloods and Crips that's the life that they signed up for and they benefit from that life until the risk outlays the reward.
Even if an innocent dies due to gang violence this is terrible but understandable. They are casualties of war.
Mass shootings are something else. Indiscriminate, the neighborhood does not matter, the lifestyle you live does not matter and the element of fear due to the sporadic nature of these crimes is what is so shocking. Also seeing 20 or more shot of our streets, schools, theaters in broad daylight is something out of a dystopian future novel.
Even if an innocent dies due to gang violence this is terrible but understandable. They are casualties of war.
Mass shootings are something else. Indiscriminate, the neighborhood does not matter, the lifestyle you live does not matter and the element of fear due to the sporadic nature of these crimes is what is so shocking. Also seeing 20 or more shot of our streets, schools, theaters in broad daylight is something out of a dystopian future novel.