Police have also identified the man reportedly responsible for shooting and killing eight children and injuring two women in a domestic incident in Shreveport’s Cedar Grove neighborhood Sunday morning. Police say Shamar Elkins is the man responsible for this incident. Additionally, police say Elkins was the father of seven of the eight children he reportedly shot and killed. One of the children killed was not his though.
I read this and felt nothing. Decades of stories just like this one have completely normalized mass death in my mind. This is in stark contrast to how completely ripped apart I felt by Sandy Hook. Now it’s just “the price of freedom”
If this happened anywhere else there would be outrage and action. I hate this place. Zone of Interest but it’s an entire country.
There have been many radicalizing moments for me.
Sandy hook is a clear example that nothing matters to the ruling elite. We will never get common sense gun laws if someone stalking and murdering 4 year olds with an ar15 doesn’t incite that.
When I was a kid, these stories were shocking, especially because of the very real possibility it could happen to my community. Now it’s just a part of life. Often times these stories don’t even become known. Disgusting
Sandy Hook was a turning point for me - I’m so 100% doomer on the issue of mass gun violence in the USA. I can’t even muster the energy to care about it.
Climate change and gun violence will turn every card carrying fascist into a “live and let live” liberal.
Same people who talk about the spiritual destruction of the west will go full “but….who like……CAAAAAAAAARES MAAN!!!” the second you mention the actual moral hedonism of the rich, or wonton violence being accepted as part of the culture because “muh freedumbz”.