Nameless Bullets
When a round leaves the chamber it loses its name. The
bullet in flight has no intended target. There is no telling who will be the
one to bear its blows. In a mass shooting, there is no one there asking you why
your life is more valuable than the next. There is no judge to fairly
distribute the injuries amongst the living. No scale to weigh the sins of the
victim. Recently the worst mass shooting to ever happen in the US occurred in Orlando,
Florida at a LGBT nightclub named Pulse. When you see the news, they emphasize that it was
a direct attack on the LGBT community yet those who aren’t in support are not
taking a second to mourn those lost. Some out here don’t feel the necessity to
pause and sympathize with the horrific losses that occurred. Some of you out
here forget that it’s not just homosexuals that were injured; it was real life
people that were attacked. 50 people died and at least 50 were injured in that
slaughtered that occurred.
Regardless of your stance on same sex marriage or
homosexuals in general, the people that were hurt were friends, brothers,
sisters, cousins, parents, and relatives. It was a human travesty. Human pain.
Bullets don’t have names but everyone killed did. Everyone killed put on their
pants one leg at a time and it doesn’t make sense for these mass events to keep
occurring. The act of taking away the last breath of a crowd of people who you
never seen before in life . . . . why? It’s getting scary in these streets.
These days nowhere is safe. People run up into your house, shoot up the
schools, gun down everyone in movie theaters, bomb entire buildings,
massacre a club, etc. It’s hard not to live your life in a box when you have
these people out here that have no regard for others. Nothing for us to do but
lean on each other in support. We can't wall ourselves up with the fear because that's what they want and that gives them power over us. These shootings are not a black, American,
Muslim, or gay problem. Forget the human need to categorized things. All
lives in this regard matter. I will take a moment of silence for ALL of those
who lost their lives in such a traumatic and horrendous manner. It doesn’t
matter what my belief, skin color or sexual orientation are. No one deserves to
be lined up and killed off. Not even exes . . .
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