Does America Need an Emmett Till Moment to See How Children are Mutilated by AR15s?

[Joinfortmill]

https://hartmannreport.com/p/does-america-need-an-emmett-till?utm_source=substack&utm_medium

'Leadership from multiple venues in American journalism should get together and decide what photos to release, for maximum impact and minimum trauma.' Thom Hartmann

THE HARTMANN REPORT

'His mother, Mamie Bradley, made the extraordinarily brave decision to show her child’s mutilated face with an open-coffin funeral in their hometown of Chicago....

And now we have another mass school shooting, this time in Tennessee with three 9-year-old girls dead as well as 3 adults. Immediately followed by another pathetic Republican congressman claiming that Congress can’t do a thing...This is a phenomenon as systemic and unique to the United States today as Jim Crow was in the 1950s. The gun control movement needs to learn from the Civil Rights movement.'

[Irish_Dem]

1. Americans are quite fragile and will be damaged by facing reality.

Americans are distraught if they have to wear masks and get vaccines during a deadly global pandemic.

Iconic works of art and literature make them go insane.

So we must keep Americans comfortable at all costs.
Even if it means they are all killed by guns.

[Chainfire]

11. However, the right all about showing photos of aborted fetuses to us.

Republicans see child deaths from guns as the cost of doing business. The Republicans can only be elected by help from the gun industry and the 2A only voters. Expect nothing to change until we have a supermajority in congress, a President in the White House, and have cleared the trash from the SC....In other words, children will continue to die from guns for the foreseeable future.

Gun laws are changing almost daily in the US; they are becoming less restrictive in most places.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Exactly. Child deaths are just collateral damage in the GOP quest for power and wealth.

They will kill as many children as it takes to get what they want.

They will also use any tactic to win, showing pictures of a fetus, etc.
But if Dems do that with dead school children we are the devil incarnate.

[Chainfire]

15. Republicans are OK with child gun murders as long as it is someone else's children.

[Irish_Dem]

16. Wealthy GOPers send their kids to highly protected private schools.

They don't have to mingle with us, the riff-raff.

[Probatim]

2. One of the few questions to title an article that can be answered with a Yes.

However, I thought Rolling Stone did an article showing gunshot victims and their scars a few years ago and it did nothing.

[Aristus]

3. I was thinking the same thing. But I'm not optimistic about its potential to change minds.

Alex Jones and others of his squalid, loathsome ilk will just drag out the old reliable 'crisis actors' trope and beat that to death on the public airwaves. And the screeching, syphilitic howler monkeys that make up his base audience will believe it without question.

And the rest of us will have been subjected to that paralyzing horror for nothing.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea can google crime scene photos from quite a few mass shootings

and share them however they want. They are very easy to find.

[ret5hd]

5. Yes yes yes!

I can’t ask any family to do that, but I will support any that do.

[crickets]

24. 👆👆

[PlanetBev]

6. Excellent idea

Nothing else seems to be working.

[Paladin]

7. Yes. Unfortunately, that's EXACTLY what we need.

With the parents' permission, show what's left of an elementary school child, after he or she absorbs a few .223 rounds. Up close and in color.

[RockRaven]

8. Yeah, probably, but the handful of corporations which control almost all media dissemination

won't allow it (again probably).

Will Twitter and Facebook/Meta allow those pics on their platforms? Will NYT or WaPo put them in their articles (digital or paper)? Will the broadcast networks fight with the FCC for the right to send those images out over public airways? Will cable news channels risk the ire of advertisers and cable carriers? It's probably "no" to all of those, and I don't see how we get to yes.

[sanatanadharma]

9. Americans already get great movie make-up gore porn streamed to their ...

... big screens, TV's, tablets, and mobile screens. The CSI, cops and robbers, war, porn-gore genre gets better and better because Americans do not turn away. Some ghoulishly seek out the real sadism found online. Others seek to be the online sought. Sad!

It is little wonder that blood-sacrifice is the national religious ritual of the USA.

[Hope22]

10. Wars get the attention of Americans when the draft is initiated.

I guess each family needs to sign up one child to be sacrificed at school. Sounds stupid doesn’t it. At this rate we will be there before the class of 33 graduates. # one killer of kids now! Frankly I don’t know how parents handle the stress of it all.
All of this talk about low test scores as a result of Covid makes me wonder if it is the pandemic or PTSD from hearing about, experiencing or knowing someone who died at school that is causing the kid’s poor testing results. All of this, and it doesn’t address the recurring PTSD that those who have experienced an attack for themselves or a loved one and the bitter news of another gun wielding person carrying out another school execution! The pain never stops.

[IcyPeas]

13. and what if pictures are shown and they still don't give a shit? what then? what's the next step

what's the next step after that?

THEY.DON'T.CARE.

[markie]

27. I can answer that question...

they DON'T give a shit... what next? do whatever it takes to make sure people vote Democrat!!

[Retrograde]

14. Pre-Dobbs, some states decided to restrict abortion access

by showing the prospective patients pictures of aborted fetuses, going for the most gory ones they could find (are they still doing that?) If I ran the country, people wanting to buy assault rifles as well as any lawmakers who vote on assault rifle or ammunition restriction, will be required to look at pictures of bodies mutilated by their fetish machines.

[obamanut2012]

17. Yes, they do, as horrible as that is

That is how the American public started really turning against teh Vietnam Warm seeing dead Americans, crying Americans, etc. on their TV screens every night.

[edisdead]

18. Thomm Hartmans guest explained why we shouldn't

The victims have done enough and the family’s remembrance of them should not be destroyed by seeing their loved ones bodies riddled with bullet holes and worse.

Also not sure the American public would be swayed by this.

[Paladin]

20. Family consent would be a necessary part of such showings.

Other than that, Hartman's guest is incorrect.

[edisdead]

22. She's the leader of Sandy hook promise.

Also the mother of one of the slain children. She had many valid points. His show is usually available via podcast. While your opinions are valid, I think hers are also worth a listen.

[sarisataka]

19. I find this idea rather ghoulish and cynical

Not to mention disrespectful to the victims and their families.

[beaglelover]

21. It won't make any difference.

[markie]

26. I agree

it won't make a difference to those that have the power to change things

[Talitha]

23. I don't wish it on anyone,

But I honestly wonder if anything would change if a Repug gun humper - or one of their children or grandchildren - got pulverized by an assault weapon, and needed to be identified by their DNA.

[markie]

25. I have said before

and banned for it... the only thing that may help is to have Republican's children die from gunfire! I still believe this

[scarletlib]

28. Only if it's a little white girl with the face of an angel.

That might affect some of the guns nuts. Otherwise doubtful.