America Doesn't Care About Gun Violence And You Could Be The Next Victim

Add another one to the list … a shooting that people are horrified by, but ultimately won’t care enough to do a damn thing about and will forget until the next one.

Broadcast journalist Alison Parker and her cameraman Adam Ward were slain today live on WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia on the morning news by a madman coward who used to work for the station and was fired a few years ago.

You’d think at some point these shootings would be enough to scream to Americans to do something about the gun violence that runs so rapidly in this country and almost nowhere else. You’d think a murder on live television while eating your breakfast might be the final straw, but then again if a mass murder of 20 elementary students wasn’t enough nothing likely ever will.

And so we’re going to keep on adding gun deaths and mass shootings to the list and the bodies will keep piling up because Americans care more about their guns and their second amendment rights than they do innocent human lives.

There's no doubt in my mind that there are worse places to live than the United States, but it doesn't feel like there's any other place in this world who's citizens hate others as much as we do.

We disrespect human life so much that watching them die repeatedly from guns is something we just gloss over and forget. Or even worse something we callously disrespect by claiming the deceased don’t matter as much as an almost 250 year old document created in an age when it couldn’t have even been fathomed how many people could be killed and how quickly by just one firearm.

It doesn’t seem we’re ever going to care and that’s a scary feeling, because it essentially means each and every one of us could be the next names on that gun violence list. The next incidence of gun violence is coming and the victims could be you and me – and a couple of days later no one will even remember our names.