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Wrong Direction


Breaking News: Mass Shooting Kills 10

That's the third one this month. 

They say he was a copycat shooter

But how did he know so much?

 

Oh right

We told him

 

Media makes a point to disclose viscous details

The shooter's name

His Story

As if he were the one to be remembered

 

Well I remember something

After the Santa Fe School Shooting

Instead of recognizing the victims

Users took to social media to instead highlight the shooter's attractiveness

 

Only paying attention to his body

But not to the ones he left behind

Do you know their names?

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