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Mira

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21. Shock Fatigue

Reply to lib87 (Reply #16)

Fri Jul 24, 2015, 07:12 AM

Jul 2015

and outrage exhaustion.

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My paper's cartoon today could not have predicted the next mass shooting would be today [View all] Mira Jul 2015 OP

K&R Solly Mack Jul 2015 #1

Sad cartoon Gothmog Jul 2015 #2

Sad state of affairs. Frustratedlady Jul 2015 #4

Prescient malaise Jul 2015 #3

+1 daleanime Jul 2015 #7

Allow people to have access to guns, SOME of them will use them DFW Jul 2015 #13

Sadly it isn't awoke_in_2003 Jul 2015 #25

a very sad k and r. we all know these things are now a matter of "when", not "if". niyad Jul 2015 #5

Also, from today's Toon Roundup #2 Electric Monk Jul 2015 #6

yes! oldandhappy Jul 2015 #8

Had not heard about today's shooting yet. passiveporcupine Jul 2015 #9

I see there are plenty of flags. Now he can move to the next one... n/t jtuck004 Jul 2015 #10

It's quite terrifying Mira Jul 2015 #11

I considered getting the scanner on nadinbrzezinski Jul 2015 #12

And people here shut me down SheilaT Jul 2015 #14

Well I'll agree with you. SoapBox Jul 2015 #15

+1 n/t Nevernose Jul 2015 #17

PRECISELY stated n/t Mira Jul 2015 #18

That simple malaise Jul 2015 #20

Why do you suppose sarisataka Jul 2015 #22

They were all stabbed to death, so the antigun crowd doesn't care: friendly_iconoclast Jul 2015 #27

You are at least partially right. SheilaT Jul 2015 #30

We will all be safer when the causes, not just the instrumentality, of violence are addressed friendly_iconoclast Jul 2015 #36

Missed the one in Oklahoma. Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #23

+a million nt laundry_queen Jul 2015 #26

"If you don't support that, then you're happily complicit in all these murders." friendly_iconoclast Jul 2015 #28

No. It's not the same. SheilaT Jul 2015 #31

You're backtracking- you said those that don't agree are "happily complicit in...murders" friendly_iconoclast Jul 2015 #35

I'm Not Surprised lib87 Jul 2015 #16

Shock Fatigue Mira Jul 2015 #21

It's Like Watching the Same Car Accident in Slow Motion lib87 Jul 2015 #29

K&R napkinz Jul 2015 #19

kick napkinz Jul 2015 #24

I don't know about you Aerows Jul 2015 #32

I must tell you Mira Jul 2015 #33

I'm glad we are having this conversation Aerows Jul 2015 #34

I am encouraged about the video of our President today Mira Jul 2015 #37