It wouldn't destroy any myths, it's about emotional impact.
Everybody knows that 20+ children died in Uvalde. But they're just numbers on a page to people, which is understandable because seeing any of the victims would fuck me up badly and I imagine it's the same for many others. We naturally emotionally distance ourselves from such atrocities, this allows us to remain functional in a world where horrible things happen constantly, but it also causes us to ignore things we shouldn't.
Remember "the sound of children screaming has been removed"? Everyone knew that there was screaming, but the difference between hearing and not hearing it turned it from completely unbearable to merely very uncomfortable to watch. Nobody ever pretended children weren't being killed.
I don't know if it could cause an actual movement, but putting pictures of the victims out there would absolutely have an impact. It would make it more "real" for people, much harder to ignore and accept as normal.
but what movement would it even be for? the movement to give cops broader powers to take away guns at their discretion? the movement to give people more guns so they can shoot the bad guys? Even the left isn't in agreement on how we want this problem solved.
It would depend on the moment like everything else does. Anything we can do to channel that inchoate rage and despair into a desire to end capitalist alienation and the american death drive.
If a movement like this happened, it would likely call for stricter gun laws or outright bans (or more cops at schools if you want the :joker-troll: answer)
I don't think that would be the correct solution, but that's mainly because the correct solution would require several fundamental systemic changes which I don't believe a movement would call for :shrug-outta-hecks:
It wouldn't destroy any myths, it's about emotional impact.
Everybody knows that 20+ children died in Uvalde. But they're just numbers on a page to people, which is understandable because seeing any of the victims would fuck me up badly and I imagine it's the same for many others. We naturally emotionally distance ourselves from such atrocities, this allows us to remain functional in a world where horrible things happen constantly, but it also causes us to ignore things we shouldn't.
Remember "the sound of children screaming has been removed"? Everyone knew that there was screaming, but the difference between hearing and not hearing it turned it from completely unbearable to merely very uncomfortable to watch. Nobody ever pretended children weren't being killed.
I don't know if it could cause an actual movement, but putting pictures of the victims out there would absolutely have an impact. It would make it more "real" for people, much harder to ignore and accept as normal.
but what movement would it even be for? the movement to give cops broader powers to take away guns at their discretion? the movement to give people more guns so they can shoot the bad guys? Even the left isn't in agreement on how we want this problem solved.
It would depend on the moment like everything else does. Anything we can do to channel that inchoate rage and despair into a desire to end capitalist alienation and the american death drive.
If a movement like this happened, it would likely call for stricter gun laws or outright bans (or more cops at schools if you want the :joker-troll: answer)
I don't think that would be the correct solution, but that's mainly because the correct solution would require several fundamental systemic changes which I don't believe a movement would call for :shrug-outta-hecks: