We need to talk about why survivors of gun violence are dying

America is the most violent country in the western world.

It makes you wonder how a country that proudly professes its beauty can simultaneously endorse the grotesqueness of its ugliest feature, that can’t be prettied up with heated town halls and never-ending debates, that lead us back to the shooting massacres that keep brutalizing lives, long after the terrorists are apprehended.

It goes back to when many of us became acutely aware of how much this country despises the precious children, who truly believed that their lives mattered, until torrents of bullets blasted away that fairy tale.

The horrific scene at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, CT, during the holiday season of 2012, on December 14, was beyond human digestion.

How could we sanely absorb the unfathomable shooting deaths of 20 children, between the ages of 6 and 7, and an additional 7staff members who tried in vain to save them?

The terrifying breaking news was heartrending, and it caused President Obama to shed tears of despair, as he acknowledged the severity of the school massacre, that at the time, was swiftly categorized as:

“The deadliest primary or secondary school shooting, the third-deadliest mass shooting by a single person, and…