Anyone who cares about this video game but does not care about the lack of effective mental health laws in this country doesn’t actually give a damn about the lives of the students in these school shootings.
Phrased that way it doesn’t provide good discussion fodder, I hope you see.
If we’re talking about “unproductive” I am at discussion, how is it any more productive for you to ignore things that actually disprove your arguments, if you can even call them that. You said that Trump disavowed Roy Moore a while back and I proved you wrong yet you completely ignored it.
I’m talking about that particular phrasing you used just then.
But to answer your nonsequitur on Moore: You tried to rationalize your claim that Moore was significant, in part because Trump. What I actually wrote was, “Some of it is really weak guilt by association type stuff. Trump and many other Republicans opposed Moore.” It’s a fact that Trump supported Moore’s opponent in the primary. Trump went on to endorse Moore in the general election in terms of ‘we need a Republican/we need to oppose the Democrats’ not ‘Roy Moore is so great’. So if your point is that Roy Moore is significant because Trump provided a generic endorsement in the end to protect the Republican agenda: not very convincing.
A person can reasonably believe the game is terrible, that there is no reasonable gun control law that will effectively stop school shootings, and care tremendously about those lives.
They’re wrong about gun control and all the data proves them wrong. Ignoring or obstructing the only thing that can actually address the problem while targeting a game no one has ever heard of proves to me that they don’t care too much about those lives, because if they did then they wouldn’t be distracting from the real issue. Just like how climate change deniers don’t really care about the environment.
I don’t know who all these people are. I think a person of any political persuasion would be troubled by that game. Your generalizations don’t strike me as terribly accurate.
At some point I’ll get into “global warming” with you 😉