lynseyaddario: At a cemetery in Georgia in 2016, Lucy McBath weeps over the grave of her son, Jordan Davis, who was killed by a white man at 17 years old at a gas station in Florida after being accused of playing loud music. After her son’s murder, Lucy became a gun control activist, and was just elected to Congress in Georgia. Her win, which unseats Republican Rep. Karen Handel, seems only more poignant the morning after 12 people were gunned down in California.
I’d like to add: one of the victims of yesterday’s mass shooting at Thousand Oaks was a survivor of the Vegas Shooting. Telemachus Orfanos survived the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, only to be gunned down 13 months later. He was 27.
Less than 24 hours ago, Orfanos and 11 other people were alive and healthy.
The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting occurred 2 weeks before.
No U.S. shooting is an isolated incident.
Here are photos (left to right) of Jordan Davis’s murderer, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, and the Vegas shooter. Notice anything?
Gun violence is an epidemic created and perpetuated by white men, motivated by hatred, bigotry, and entitlement.
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