The way I see it is this: if you're against gun control, you're either

A) Devoid of empathy

B) A lunatic

Because if one of your kids/loved ones is killed in a mass shooting like this, and you're still against gun control, then you're a lunatic. If not, then you're just an asshole with zero sympathy for the families that have lost loved ones.

I don't know about you, but regardless of the politics, I would not want any of my elected officials to fall into category A or B.

If I show you gory pictures from a car accident, would you understand the magnitude of the horror of cars to the extent that you would want to ban cars?

I understand the feeling, but I don't think it would work. People would get upset and get even angrier at whoever they already think is to blame, and after a while everyone would become desensitized to it.

Felt the same way about COVID and war. If cameras were allowed into ICUs, and into war-torn areas, and not just the carefully choreographed media tours the military sometimes allows these days, things would change.

I remember coming back from Iraq wishing the American public should have to see what we were actually doing. America and it's allies export death and destruction, but we dont show or talk about a president bombing a wedding, or sending arms to the Saudis they use to blow up a school bus full of Yemeni kids. Keep quiet about the ~14,000 dead Russian speakers in the Donbass conflict since a CIA backed coup in 2014. Say nothing about all the various North African countries we've couped, or the South American Ones, or the SE Asia ones. Don't mention programs like Fast and Furious sending mexican cartels arms, or sending other cartels guns for drugs that get pumped into the inner cities and make our 3 letters have oodles of off-books black bag money.

I see pundits on Bloomberg cackle about Lockheed and Raytheon outperforming the market on national television and radio. News hosts talk about missles sent to Syria against our own Constitution as beautiful. Warmongers given platforms on supposedly left shows. Unnacountable bankers financing it all.

SV is so full of myopic hypocrites. Show the gore, sure, but be sure to show it all.