(07-23-2023, 10:24 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(07-23-2023, 09:48 AM)copycat Wrote: Then you didn’t “listen” to it, you only heard it.

I don't know if I listened to it or only heard it but my question is what did you get out of it?  How do you interpret the message in that song?

Small communities stick together.  That is not some nameless person being assaulted, it’s someone you went to HS with.  That cashier that had a gun stuck in her face for a measly $50 is Sara, your little sister’s best friend.  That store that was just burned to the ground, the one the entire community rely’s on isn’t just another store.  The Burke family has owned it for generations and you’ve been going there since you were knee high to a grasshopper.  The next closest store of its kind is 20 miles away.  

When you see those videos of a tickturd smash a display case, or run out the door with an armful of merchandise, or toss a torch through a store front window it’s not some random act of violence.  It’s personal because you know the people directly affected, and when things are personal you act differently.

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