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Post #1232286

Author
Mrebo
Parent topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Date created
7-Aug-2018, 10:50 AM

moviefreakedmind said:

Of course it’s equally relevant to gun control. What view is there to express? I want strict gun control. I’ve been saying that forever. And I call out all of those assholes that stop talking about gun control the second they forget about the last big school shooting.

I don’t understand Frink objecting that my post was “completely misleading” nor fixating on how the post was worded.

When I saw the Collipso post I assumed it was another mass shooting. I was surprised to find that wasn’t the case but I didn’t think an important issue was the assumptions I made or the presentation of his post. I thought the particular facts of that case qualified as a different issue and I explained that. I was basically told they’re not really different in an important way.

I think a concentrated bout of shootings with so many victims and so many perpetrators presents a powerful set of facts for gun control than a lone nutbar or a domestic dispute that happens to occur on a campus. If someone wanted to rhetorically call what happened in Chicago a mass shooting to draw attention to it I think that would be fair.

The emotional appeal isn’t the same to many people as you say. Maybe Frink thinks its not worth commenting on the story for the reasons you give: there’s nothing to really say. I don’t know, but I don’t understand thinking my abbreviated description was problematic, as they say.