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Shooter

How many times have we heard about guns sounding out around our children while they are at their place of learning.
Its concerning how many times this shit has happened but let's go ahead and clear it out, by my count I'll round the number out to around 1300.
I'm running the number from after 1970 marked by Tyrone Perry at Hine Junior High.
His death can't be overruled solely on the fact that only one man left this earth when he was laid to dirt.
Before the decade was over 32 souls left this plane.
From D.C. to California our country is for ever in mourning till the early morning for every child who came for learning.
Take Columbine in 1999.
They changed the game.
Colorado immortalized the tears we all cried.
Look up to the sky and wondered why 15 youth had to lose their lives.
Don't concern the sky.
Amply the sight by looking buckeye back in 2005.
Minnesota cried from their eyes as they mourned blood running in Red Lake.
16 year old Jeffrey Weise released 10 people's souls.
To include in the lot, his loved ones got shot.
What's a guy gotta say to get all this fucking violence to drop.
Ok, back in 07 33 souls went to heaven's rest when the Virginia Tech Shooter made his block hot.
Like an afterthought Seung-Hui Cho, armed with only 2 pistols, went ham at his school.
What was he tryin to prove.
He left notes online, he must have lost his damn mind.
He had his plans outlined.
Takes your sights to 2012.
Adam Lanza planned an assault on Sandy Hook like a real crook thumbing through a yearbook and taking no second looks.
20 kids, the principal, and the psychologist, his mama, 4 teachers,  and his skull got popped.
He dropped himself.
All in all 28 mortals be came eternal, all this killings gotta be paranormal.
How do you kill 17 people and injure 17 more, then stroll out the door with peers while the fire alarm shouts?
Then dip out to McDonald's up first, then eat fresh with Subway?
Just ask Nikolas Cruz back in 2018.
I mean on valentine's day he came to speak with a spray and carry on with his day, like it was so cliche.
Those who stay out in Santa Fe had nothing left to say when Dimitrios Pagourtzis came through to his school with two tools, one shot gun one pistol left 10 dead 13 indisposed no reload.
Are we too old to be told to be bold and address these concerns so our children can still learn?
This process starts in the home and it ends in the heart.
We can start being kinder to one another from the start; we all play our part.
Fuck egos, let's get better airflow between each other love your brother and your sister as if we share the same mother my brothers the time has come to work together for a better tomorrow with far less sorrow.
Written by BlackBoxPublicatio (Adeshina Lawal)
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