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In reply to the discussion: Last night I sat my teenage sons down and showed them a picture of this: [View all]Politicub
(12,165 posts)but there is no scare porn to it, and I believe saying things like that is an invitation for people to avert thier eyes.
If people don't viscerally feel the horror it will be hard to impossible to understand what happened in the abstract.
Witness what is happening with the Newtown massacre.
Sadly Newtown seems to be slipping from the public consciousness along with pleas for reasonable gun control.
And maybe one reason for that is people don't really have the ability to conceptualize the carnage. We have sanitized Hollywood images firmly planted in our brains which look nothing like reality. If images of the reality of the outright slaughter of the innocents were made public, maybe it would be harder to erase the images from memory and the cause of gun control wouldn't whither on the vine.
I know I will never forget the images in this video. It has been seared into my brain, and there is no way I can unsee it or forget about it no matter how hard I try.