The worst thing, really, is that there's never really just "one victim," but a whole way of life.
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There's the victim's family, their friends. They carry the grief around for years.
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There's the other secondary victims, too, who bear a brunt—medics, detectives, social workers, journalists, therapists, preachers, watchers.
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And maybe they don't process a tragedy as a personal loss, but they'll bear it as stress, or get jaded.
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String enough shootings one after another, and eventually you have a whole culture as a victim, where it becomes something you just—expect.
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@mattdpearce Was thinking about this earlier – It is so sad, but I'm not even surprised by them anymore.
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