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Chemisse

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2. Victims and their families still have a right to privacy and dignity in death.

Reply to Amaryllis (Original post)

Fri Feb 16, 2018, 07:56 PM

Feb 2018

It would be horrific to turn on the news and see the mutilated body of your child being publicly scoured over like porn.

So no. I disagree.

However this is the first time I've seen footage of scared kids hiding in their classrooms, with shots ringing out in the distance. It really drove it home for me.

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Show the Carnage: Time for Americans to see the true result of mass shootings [View all] Amaryllis Feb 2018 OP

The pictures of the torn apart by military killing machines from Newtown and everywhere else Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #1

Victims and their families still have a right to privacy and dignity in death. Chemisse Feb 2018 #2

It would be up to the parents and famlies . . . hatrack Feb 2018 #5

Fuck that shit. MicaelS Feb 2018 #3

I will say if I die in a mass shooting dsc Feb 2018 #12

Make out a will that explicitly states that. MicaelS Feb 2018 #14

Absolutely not oberliner Feb 2018 #4

I sorrowfully agree, A. Because otherwise, its just a movie or video game...no reality Leghorn21 Feb 2018 #6

Something ain't right. 65+% of population don't even own guns, yet the are perfectly Hoyt Feb 2018 #7

I remember when a LEO leaked a picture of the Porsche R B Garr Feb 2018 #8

Unfortunately. Blue_true Feb 2018 #9

There would be parents who'd be willing to let the photographs be released. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #10

Go to Ogrish. MicaelS Feb 2018 #11

I've been there. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #13

Why am I not surprised? n/t MicaelS Feb 2018 #16

Americans have never dealt too well with reality... First Speaker Feb 2018 #15