New York Magazine features school-shooting survivor in proactive and powerful front cover

Not only has New York Magazine'S latest cover done, but it has forced us to sit with the discomfort.

Described as "heartbreaking", "powerful" and "confronting", the cover of the October 29 – November 11 issue features a shirtless teenage boy bearing horrific scars across his torso and a colostomy bag.

The boy is 15-year-old Anthony Borges, the young man credited with saving up to 20 lives during the Parkland, Florida, school mbadacre.

Borges used to be a barricading shield in the United States. He was shot fives times and was the last of the injured to leave the hospital.

When the news broke over the Parkland school shooting, were a student murdered 17 of his clbadmates, the entire world was heartbroken. But this time, instead of grievance, we felt anger. We were done with 'thoughts and prayers' and we wanted meaningful action and reform on US gun laws.

However, much like other mbad school shootings in the US – the Virginia Tech mbadacre which killed 32, the Santa Fe high school shooting which killed 10, and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting which killed 26 – our anger soon turned to apathy.

Since the shocking Parkland mbadacre, New York Magazine points out, at least 75 other shootings in schools barely made the news, and if they did, they slipped right out of it.

"It's amazing to think that these shoots – these attacks on children – are not being talked about constantly," the feature reads, along with the harrowing anecdotes from 27 school-shooting survivors over the last 72 years.

The publication is in a nutshell, and the timing is not coincidental, with the US heading into the 2018 midterm elections which are to take place next week on November 6.

New York Magazine has made its point and is leaving the ball in the voters' court. Let's hope they can be reignited and channelled into voting.