A Forgotten Group of People in Mass Shootings: The Disabled
By Sonya Dickerson
Sonya Dickerson is grateful to be a disabled model and best selling author of Diary of A Sick Chick: A Year in the Life of a Chronically Ill Woman. She is the main personality and podcaster on “The Mad Chronically Ill Girl Podcast” available on iTunes and SoundCloud. She enjoys listening to music, cleaning her apartment, and running into the back of your ankles on the street.
If you ask someone what they think of when they think of America, you are likely to get a variety of responses. Apple pie, freedom, bald eagles, or rugged individualism. However, there is something else that Americans have been recognized for and it’s as deeply American as apple pie.
Mass shootings.
I’m nowhere suggesting that the mass shooting was created by Americans alone, nor was this intentional. Some of the worst shootings in the world didn’t happen on American soil. What I am stating is that mass shootings happen so frequently here in this country that somehow, they’ve woven themselves into part of the American landscape.
We even have our own traditions surrounding mass shootings. The news media reports on the horrific incident and soon we’re awash with tweets from politicians sending their “thoughts and prayers”. The media milks the tragedy for…
