As the country confronts a fresh string of mass killings in everyday places, the unrelenting violence is exacting a psychological toll on citizens.
next to where Hammer lives. Two more people dead, in the kind of gun violence so common that it doesn’t make headlines beyond local outlets.
“If gun violence is a threat to your daily life, there is no place you go that you’re not taking stock of safety,” Smith Lee said. The whole country is now being forced to weigh risks that are familiar to communities that have been disproportionately impacted by fatal shootings, she said. And the toll of frequent tragic events, overwhelming to many, “can be uniquely burdensome for people of color.”Panos, the mother of three, said she and her husband adjusted their behavior years ago.
Ron Acierno is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and director of its center on trauma and resilience. He said he sees in his daily work the ways that people are growing more numb to mass killings. “They say things like, ‘Which school shooting was that again?’” Acierno said.Desensitization is an understandable response, he said. But it doesn’t make us safer, unlike powerful emotions that can “drive you to act,” Acierno said.
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