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Violence Always Gets Attention

Shirley Jones Luke
2 min readJan 3, 2025

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American culture thrives on violence

Photo Source: NBC News

While carnage and chaos were causing a crisis in New Orleans, a man shot himself and blew up a rented cyber vehicle in front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas.

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Photo Source: ABC News

The man, “ The Clark County Coroner identified the vehicle's driver in this incident as 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger of Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Thursday. His cause of death was a result of an intraoral gunshot wound by suicide.” (ABC News)

Two men are dead after creating destruction. Why? Jabbar, as did Livelsberger, had a career after serving in the US military. Why did both men go off the rails and commit such acts which led to their deaths? Lives have been irrevocably changed forever because of their actions.

The news media eats up the acts like candy. Across the country, people are glued to their TVs, computers, and phone screens following the…

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Shirley Jones Luke
Shirley Jones Luke

Written by Shirley Jones Luke

Shirley is a writer. Ms. Luke enjoys books, fashion and travel. She is working on her second poetry manuscript, a collection of essays, and a fiction novel.

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