Bullet Immunity
Everyday, it's a new place with the same story
Pray for here, my heart breaks for there
People taking action in comment sections
Not at polls
Everyday, they cry for justice
Appalled at the latest senseless act of violence
Their outrage cools, they forget
Until they're reminded the next morning, greeted with the same story
A familiar plot with changing characters and background
Everyday, the outrage has slowly decreased and dwindled into a hush of sympathy
With every shooting
Which are growing more frequently
Creates more indifference and tolerance to the issue
The public hears the story repeatedly and begins to tune it out
The media can no longer sensationalize because shootings are so commonplace now
They stop broadcasting segments on them
People grow immune to the epidemic
Every shooting,
They say, "my thoughts and prayers go out to the victims"
But not their votes
They prefer to care in the moment, forget and become unconcerned
"It's sad, but it didn't affect me.
It won't happen in my life. It doesn't matter to me."
Every shooting, the old debate is rehashed
do people or guns kill people?
I say both
It is a gun that is the murder weapon
But it is the indifference and ignorance of the people that is the accomplice
They who aren't active in the fight for gun control
Have no right to be looking for justice
It's hard to find through the thousands of comments on Twitter
They who don't vote
Have no right to be offering prayers or thoughts
Save your hashtags
We need action