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We need to talk about the media’s exploitation of high school students who survive mass shootings
We really need to talk about school shootings a lot more, even if President Trump happens to retweet a shitload of tweets in a span of 30 minutes, and reputable outlets feel more of an urgency to make that announcement, instead of tracking the damning number of shooting massacres that have occurred since the new year began.
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Gun violence is the ongoing national crisis that is traumatizing American families across the country, and somehow we’ve managed to normalize the horrors of watching another emotionally-wrought episode of high school students, being forced to repeatedly and tearfully recount the harrowing ordeal of witnessing the shooting deaths of classmates, who weren’t able to escape the fate of being casualties of war.
The bloody battle for survival is a bitter one with unforgivable consequences when you consider how the United States of America is anything but “united.”
Most of the population is desperately trying to figure out how and why President Trump and his nefarious gang of enablers, under the guidance of the NRA, are hellbent on lounging in their million dollar recliners, without a care in the world, while high school…
