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In reply to the discussion: GRAPHIC IMAGE: What the reports on Allen TX aren't showing us. TRIGGER WARNING [View all]
LisaM
(29,327 posts)35. God damn it.
Every Republican who represents a district in Texas should be shown this photo at a press conference and asked to comment. No dodging the reality.
Imagine going out to shop and this is how your day ends. How your life ends.
I don't know about the outlet malls in Texas but at the one I occasionally go to in Washington, the shoppers are predominantly immigrants, Hispanic and Asian (including day shooters from Canada). They have special buses and they come make a day of it. There are food courts and video games and lots and lots of kids, very family oriented. I wouldn't be surprised to hear, with all the rhetoric ramping up in Texas right now about the end of Title 42, that this was specifically a hate crime directed at immigrants. I could be wrong, of course, but......
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GRAPHIC IMAGE: What the reports on Allen TX aren't showing us. TRIGGER WARNING [View all]
pnwmom
May 2023
OP
No... it's not our country. Anymore. It's theirs... the ammosexuals own this country. nt
albacore
May 2023
#14
Since the faces have been blurred out, it doesn't seem to be an invasion of privacy.
pnwmom
May 2023
#10
I said "help." They "helped" stir public outrage in a way that verbal discussions did not. nt
pnwmom
May 2023
#120
People say that a lot, but it's not exactly quantifiable, nor has it been replicated.
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2023
#68
Agreed. I think we underestimate the ability to most people to compartmentalize...
Caliman73
May 2023
#137
But others won't, and need to see this. The families don't have to look at the images
pnwmom
May 2023
#74
The families won't accidentally view photos behind sensitivity warnings on Twitter
pnwmom
May 2023
#100
Well, the only answer that makes sense to me is to share the pain. Share the witness.
calimary
May 2023
#102
It's more than horrible, but there just aren't any words that are strong enough......
groundloop
May 2023
#32
Every time they claim this, perhaps the blood money amounts should be publicized.
crickets
May 2023
#15
Some of those victims might have been strong supporters of guns in society.
Frasier Balzov
May 2023
#44
every year hundressd or more fake murdered people shown in tv/movies etc. nothing wrong with
msongs
May 2023
#16
A gentle hand on your shoulder. It's like a normal place you know suddenly filled with deadly
electric_blue68
May 2023
#159
As I remember the tv stations started listing the names ages and home towns of all the troops killed
Srkdqltr
May 2023
#26
No words. they need to show it because it's the only way it will ever stop.
Joinfortmill
May 2023
#34
Kick. G.D. Media have whitewashed countless murders so that they appear entirely victimless.
usonian
May 2023
#38
The mass killing by machine gun on a street party in Vegas was medias greatest gun coverup.
Alexander Of Assyria
May 2023
#94
They don't know what people are viewing. It might not be their loved ones at all.
pnwmom
May 2023
#106
When an attack occurs in the PUBLIC SPHERE, it's not the same as if it occurs in your HOME.
pnwmom
May 2023
#113
"Anyone who doesn't know what guns do to a human body is suffering from a deficit of both
pnwmom
May 2023
#121
There are millions of women who are R's who support them and they're not all hunters. nt
pnwmom
May 2023
#131
Absolutely horrific but only a fraction of the horror & torture they felt in their final moments nt
Quixote1818
May 2023
#55
Thank you. Twitter removed the photo and tweet. America's slow roll holocaust must end.
ancianita
May 2023
#65
Please let us know if the clip shows up somewhere else. It could be a wake-up call.
TheRickles
May 2023
#72
YES -- thank you. This is a few seconds worth of the still image that's been deleted. nt
pnwmom
May 2023
#76
These images need to be shown, every single day until something is done to rid our streets of guns
Lettuce Be
May 2023
#87
We need to see this and own it. This is an American "problem." #1 public health Crisis.
Evolve Dammit
May 2023
#88
We've been down this road before, and Republicans are well aware of it. CW: GRAPHIC PHOTOS, VIETNAM
NullTuples
May 2023
#89
I remember these. I remember when they debated pretty seriously about showing the one guy getting
SWBTATTReg
May 2023
#90
In Drivers Ed, so long ago, did you ever see those grisly vehicular "accident" films?
Backseat Driver
May 2023
#91
Sterilizing war, foreign and domestic..is what American media does very well...so it continues.
Alexander Of Assyria
May 2023
#93