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🗓️ 21 May 2018
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0:00.0 | You've heard about the deaths. |
0:05.0 | 17 killed in a high school, a triple homicide and Detroit, a quadruple in Chicago. |
0:12.2 | The survivors get less play and there are an awful lot of them. |
0:16.6 | More than 80,000 a year in fact. |
0:19.3 | But I don't care much about statistics. |
0:21.3 | The bullets just didn't stop coming and so I remember, you know, thinking, oh my god, |
0:27.7 | this is how we go. |
0:29.5 | Usually in the news will hear the number of injured or the number of disease, but the |
0:33.4 | ripple effects is much greater. |
0:36.3 | They come from all walks of life, educated and not rich and poor. |
0:41.3 | Some live in cities where gun violence is all too common. |
0:45.2 | One day I was out there and I saw my first like ten bodies laying down on the floor. |
0:51.3 | It was first time for me seeing a dead body like a four years old. |
0:56.2 | There's new little of guns until the day they were forced to become experts. |
1:00.6 | I'm just sitting here now with like blood puddle, blood puddle, blood puddle in a dead body |
1:05.6 | and I'm like, I just want to get out of here. |
1:09.2 | No matter their backgrounds, they share one defining truth. |
1:13.1 | They've survived a gunshot. |
1:15.8 | And then he turned around and saw me and I'm laying on the ground leaning up against |
1:19.8 | a bookshelf and he looked me in the eyes. |
1:23.9 | And it's a weird moment of intimacy where your life is in someone else's hands and they're |
1:29.8 | looking at you and you realize they see you and they still pull the trigger. |
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