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Pleas(e)

Aren’t you all getting sick and tired

of hearing/seeing news to the tune of

a pathetic white man with a gun?

 

Aren’t you all sick and tired

of seeing children murdered

in cold blood?

 

Aren’t you all sick and tired

of seeing college students

and adults

murdered in cold blood?

 

Aren’t you all sick and tired

of minorities being gunned down

because they are minorities?

 

Aren’t you all sick and tired

of pathetic white men being called lone wolves

and mentally ill because of the color of his skin,

and making the stigma that actual mentally ill people

are violent even worse than it already is?

 

Aren’t you all sick and tired

of being afraid for your life,

your child’s lives,

your friends and family

that are minorities?

 

Because, as a mentally ill minority,

I sure as hell am.

As a transgender person,

a WHITE transgender person,

my life expectancy is already only 40.

And that’s not because I’ll kill myself.

 

America is going to drown

in the spilled blood and grief from children,

adults, and minorities being murdered,

because people place their right

to carry assault weapons

OVER OUR LIVES.

 

Children should not have to go through active shooter drills.

Parents should not be involuntarily outliving their children.

Minorities should not have to fear for their lives.

 

There is SUCH AN EASY SOLUTION TO THIS.

It’s not rocket science.

It’s gun control laws.

No one wants to take away your guns.

 

We just want to live.

Please.

We just want to live.