Gun Deaths Since Newtown now exceeds U.S. Military deaths in 20 war-years

[DreamGypsy]

4. Times have changed. Slate has taken responsibility for body counts ...

...using the internet and the Twitter feed @GunDeaths to capture the domestic body counts.

I grew up watching the Vietnam body counts. TV was the media. I was 16 when the U.S. casualty count peaked in 1968 at 16,899. The years 1965-1971 accounted for 56,907 of the total U.S. military casualties of 58,220 - the government was counting every body.

Now the domestic deaths are just part of the daily background noise. We need to learn a little compassion.

Luka Bloom's lyrics of the song Background Noise:

So another gun goes off -
Background noise
Two kids in a stolen car -
Background noise
A young man screams in the dead of the night -
Background noise
A family mourns by an early graveside -
Background noise

You hear the cries of the different sides
The bullet hits again
Take a look in anybody's eyes
Our tears are all the same
Our tears are all the same

You can listen to the song here: https://myspace.com/lukabloom/music/song/background-noise-37349290