Remember how shocked you were by Columbine? And Sandy Hook? Even Vegas recently was very upsetting due to the high fatalities and causalities. I know with Sandy Hook especially, I was very upset for days about that. I’m still upset about that, actually.
But otherwise, aren’t people becoming desensitized to these shootings? They are so frequent, and nothing changes because of any of them. To me it kind of seems like it’s time to stop getting upset about it. It’s just part of life in the US at this point. We’ll hear about the really bad ones on the news from time to time. And life goes on otherwise. It’s happening almost everyday, somewhere.
It’s terrible, really. But Americans and their politicians obviously don’t care enough to try and change *anything*. Maybe the NRA lobby is just too strong. But in any case I personally am fatigued at being upset or outraged by these mass shootings. If they don’t fundamentally care to change things, to me it seems like it’s time to accept that this is just the way it is in the US.
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