Thread by @txnewsprincess

I know people think that sharing those images is the righteous thing to do. But a few points. (Sorry, another 🧵):
1) The loved ones of these individuals did not consent to this. Mamie Till (who people keep invoking) was fully aware of what she was doing and made a choice.

2) Many of the people you are sharing this with (politicians who have chosen the gun lobby) also saw the carnage from other mass shootings, including Uvalde.
If that didn’t sway them, will this? Probably not, and in the meantime you’ve traumatized a whole lot of people because

this platform is currently really bad at obscuring or warning about sensitive content.
Everyone (except for the people who allow this to happen) is angry. The key is remembering that anger when it comes time to vote.
Tomorrow is the last day the #RaisetheAge bill can get out

of committee. Spend today and tomorrow contacting the members of the House Select committee on Community Safety and urge them to report favorably.

house.texas.gov/committees/com…

Email them. Call them. Repeat that. Then start calling your representatives to urge them to pass it.

And finally:
3) Photos of dead bodies does not show us what we’ve lost. The stories of these people that will come in the next few days? That’s what we’ve lost. We’ve lost potential, we’ve lost community, and that is what should be recognized.

Those people were loved. They, in their own ways that we’ll learn about over time, were extraordinary people doing an ordinary thing. Knowing them will serve a better purpose than sharing their corpses without their consent.
The gunman took their lives. Don’t take their dignity.