Being an empathic person has made things difficult lately. After the news of the shooting at the 4th of July parade in Highland Park, my body has literally felt like it’s been vibrating. It breaks my heart because I just can’t imagine what the survivors go through afterwards. I know how hard it was getting over what happened in this blog post that I wrote 3 years ago. I didn’t have to see injured people bleeding on the street. I didn’t have to run past dead bodies. The trauma these people go through in all of these mass shootings has to be monumental. I just want to shake our leaders and ask, “Are you paying attention?!” I feel like my insides are screaming. It just keeps happening again and again and again. I’m sharing this again because my state’s primary is coming up. I have been researching the candidates until…