"A single photo can change the world. I know, because I took one that did."

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9. Hard as they may be to look at, the public needs to see photos of the destruction wrought by guns.

Families are dealing with grief and trauma, but I’m reminded of the bravery of Emmet Till’s mother in choosing to show the world what white supremacists had done to her fourteen year old child. By not showing the ravages of gun violence, the media has sanitized mass murder. Of course, no family should be forced to share such photos and children’s faces could be blurred, but people need to see what their support of military weapons in private hands causes.

The media seems too careful to appease Republicans these days that I doubt any of them even ask for permission to publish. The media wasn’t even allowed to be at Andrews Air base to record dead soldiers in coffins being returned to the US.n