But if that community specifically is, why not ask the question? They weren’t acting like they were going to something gun related which was actually something else, it was a response to people firing off gun shots. I stated that no, it doesn’t deserve what happened, and no, it doesn’t absolve the end result, but like we said yesterday, different variables leading up to incidents can effect the outcome. Having 13 year olds out on the street at 2am firing off guns ends in tragedy. How that situation comes about in the first place deserves that question being asked. Not in relation to “did this deserve him to be killed?” But to ask why is he there with someone firing off guns? What got to that point where a thirteen year old is out doing that? Don’t ask the question as a deflection, but ask the question to get to the root of that issue too. There’s more than one thing at play here.
Look at every thread on here now with some kind of mass shooting. “Thoughts and prayers and whatever else” // “it’s hard to even care any more” // “no ones gonna do anything so why should we care?” // “that country is so fecked, it’ll never change”
it’s not victim blaming to ask why he’s there at 2am with people firing off guns. It’s wondering how we can find a way to stop a teenager feeling the need to be in that situation. Sure you can say you remove the police from that equation and he’s still alive, and yes that should absolutely be addressed. But why not also wonder and query how we can stop kids feeing a need to be there, or find a way to stop them getting their hands on firearms to be randomly firing off in the streets.