Ten dead in Boulder, Colorado

Hilarious! The US military should have hired you as a comic for their USO shows for their deployed folks.

I thought that OF's embarrassment over joking about the murder of innocents would have left him somewhat chagrined and maybe unwilling to or incapable of engaging in strawmanning and whataboutism. But I was wrong.

*OF's nose grows until it goes past the curvature of the Earth, and out into space*

You're so fucking stupid

Call it what you want. None of you can answer my question Let's sum things up:

why is about a dozen or so people getting shot in a week not as bad as HUNDREDS of people getting killed annually? I'm sure most of you have had more college psychology classes than I have.
Raul you are a lawyer (lots of education) and you live in Chicago but you can't address the simple question of why we as a nation are outraged over these two incidents but we get nothing but crickets over the "business as usual" of black-on-black gun homicide?

Lots of jokes, lots of insults, but no fucking answers from the people that claim to be morally superior. Color me surprised.

Dude, oldfella... you've lost it, bro. Wow.

I just want some answers - I think that's a reasonable request, don't you?

Not really. You blew it right out of the gate. You ought to just lay low and take the "L" on this one.

That implies he ever had "it."

It has been answered

Both are a problem and underscore how badly you need some sensible gun regulation

There's your answer

Now go fuck your mother

interesting....so it's not acceptable to question hypocrisy and bias? Can you explain your reasoning?

But I'm not through with your mother yet! I guess you'll have to take over.

Okay, so what are some of your ideas of what constitutes "reasonable gun control?" And by reasonable I also mean "effective" gun control.

You destroyed your own credibility by turning this tragedy into a joke from the very beginning of the thread. I am not kidding, YOU of all people, really ought to go for a walk for awhile and shake this one off and let someone else ask the hard questions.

What would be the easiest thing in the world for OF to do-
"Yeah, I really blew it folks, sorry about that. ".

What his fevered ego tells him would happen if he did that-
....

You are exactly the same as him in this regard

Yes, I'm sorry for taking a frivolous tone with my joke. It was wrong. That said, will somebody - anybody - answer my question? If gun homicide is so horrifying (and it is) why do we as a nation cherry pick which incidents get ignored and which cause outrage?

Wrong on all counts, but I'll not be inventorying my property for anyone.

*Two decades.

I was in middle school when Columbine happened and 13 people was considered a national tragedy. People went to blaming video games and Marilyn Manson and put some half-assed anti-bullying measures that likely made shit worse but people were at least doing SOMETHING back then.

And yet I don't see you all wringing your hands and collapsing on your fainting couches over the events Oldfella has referenced. Could it possibly be because you care less about lives than you do about striking a carefully-tailored pose meant to display your superior moral enlightenment?

In fairness, I've seen that "let's not lift up his name" thing often recited for many of these cases. This is only the third non-white mass shooter I can recall in my lifetime.

I was a Freshman when Kip Kinkle shot up Thurston High down in Springfield 23 years ago

No, my default position is that your country is an embarrassing shithole, you guys are way past the point of no return and you're mainly serving as a cautionary tale from this point on

And those of you wagging your sanctimonious fucking fingers at anyone taking a dark humor/satire angle on this, I trust I will not catch you slobbering on the knobs of Trevor Noah or John Oliver when they have something "witty" to say about shit like this.

Please. Ask the "hard" questions.

Cherry pick incidents? Literally, *every* incident has been discussed.

It's adorable that you think the rest of the world will not be dragged down with us.

Mostly white, but non-white mass shooters are a thing. But dead = dead whether it's in a few at a time (on a daily basis) or a bunch at a time not as frequently.

• Mass shootings by shooter’s race in the U.S. 2021 | Statista

OK, let's see links to some equivalent level hand-wringing threads about gang violence in LA, Chicago, Detroit, Philly, NYC.

To some degree, yes, but we'll be fine for the most part

It's adorable you think that other countries can't overcome and adapt, when they mostly all have histories of doing exactly that

I'm not talking about only "mass" shooting incidents. Granted if the media doesn't blow up over it, you may not hear about it. My point is it's only a big deal when a lot of people get killed at a time, but the fact that every day DOZENS of people get murdered by guns nation wide but rarely does that spur the media/the government into emotional overdrive at the national level.
Maybe it's the shock factor. Reading 750 are killed in one city per year doesn't move the needle like seeing the aftermath of 10 people killed a few times a year. We take the low hanging fruit almost every time.