Negative Effects Of Mass Shootings

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Every day we sit before our televisions and listen to the news or we click on Facebook links that take us to news articles describing the latest events that have taken place within our society. We begin to lack moral sensibility as we quickly skim the article and exit out or flip to the next channel without fully digesting what we just consumed. Bad things do not matter as significantly when they do not affect you directly, when you are not immersed within it, and some bad things do not happen to you because you are white. On February fourteenth, two thousand and eighteen, the United States of America experienced yet another mass shooting within a Florida high school, killing seventeen people that consisted of faculty members and primarily

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