GRAPHIC IMAGE: What the reports on Allen TX aren't showing us. TRIGGER WARNING

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49. Ever notice in those films and TV shows

how first responders act with loved ones when they arrive on the scene? They do the same in the film as in real life. They shield the loved ones from looking. They get someone to take the loved ones aside. They say things like, "You don't want to see this. Remember them as they were in life."

First responders do that because they know that the sight cannot be unseen later. They know how traumatizing and destructive that such a sight can be for close relatives and friends of the victims.

But now, in the name of righteous indignation, people believe that it's ok to rub salt into the open wounds of family and friends.

What happens when the mass shooting targets are African Americans, like the shooting a year ago at the Tops Market in Buffalo? Publicize photos like that and racists will come out of the woodwork to compete with each other over who can create the most horrific scene to publicize. Mass murderers already think it's cool to live stream their killings.

This is so wrong for so many reasons.