Someone Is Updating The “Mass- Shootings” Page On Wikipedia

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/a>” and “ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States">Mass Shootings in the United States</a>” weekly. Digital undertakers, capturing facts without faces to maintain the safety distance needed to remain sane.I don’t know what they were thinking when they volunteered for the job, but I doubt they had foreseen the production line gaining such velocity.The surrealism of updating a page with the same tragedy over and over again, like those birds that keep banging their soft head against a window thinking it is the way out. Or who knows? Since the script is exactly the same, (by mid-May 2022, there was a total of 198 mass shootings — 11 mass shootings a week), someone has come up with a special control command “duplicate tragedy”, that allows you to skip the repetitive part and update only the figures.<

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h2 id="c8b0">A routine job, not</h2>They know the history of mass-shooting too well to be allowed to dream for a cease fire.Every week, they are reporting live from the frontlines of a war that was never announced, no glory awaits them for editing tragedies so ridiculously preventable.They add yet another pin to the map, then they click save, the irony.They have grown somehow accustomed to the weekly obituary, paying tribute to the loss and the lesson that can never be learned.Yet, the lump in their throat pulses every time they realize it is a Russian roulette, their children’s school is not indefinitely safe, it has only been spared for the day.They are just waiting to see where the next bullet will ricochet, that’s how right in the line of fire we all are.</article></body>

Every single week

Bronx Zoo exhibit of The Most Dangerous Animal In The World. The photo was published in the Illustrated London News (Saturday 08 June 1963) with a photo caption which reads: “Photograph courtesy of the New York Zoological Society”, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

I can picture the resignation in the eyes of the people updating the Wikipedia pages “List of school Massacres by Death Toll” and “ Mass Shootings in the United States” weekly. Digital undertakers, capturing facts without faces to maintain the safety distance needed to remain sane.

I don’t know what they were thinking when they volunteered for the job, but I doubt they had foreseen the production line gaining such velocity.

The surrealism of updating a page with the same tragedy over and over again, like those birds that keep banging their soft head against a window thinking it is the way out. Or who knows? Since the script is exactly the same, (by mid-May 2022, there was a total of 198 mass shootings — 11 mass shootings a week), someone has come up with a special control command “duplicate tragedy”, that allows you to skip the repetitive part and update only the figures.

A routine job, not

They know the history of mass-shooting too well to be allowed to dream for a cease fire.

Every week, they are reporting live from the frontlines of a war that was never announced, no glory awaits them for editing tragedies so ridiculously preventable.

They add yet another pin to the map, then they click save, the irony.

They have grown somehow accustomed to the weekly obituary, paying tribute to the loss and the lesson that can never be learned.

Yet, the lump in their throat pulses every time they realize it is a Russian roulette, their children’s school is not indefinitely safe, it has only been spared for the day.

They are just waiting to see where the next bullet will ricochet, that’s how right in the line of fire we all are.