19 children dead in a landslide, failure to find guns in the debris...

[rjmacs]

The Reaver wrote:
2 points for Max!

Having two logins is bad form.

[$tevie]

rjmacs wrote: Is it really axe grinding to bring attention to child gun deaths?

I think it is. These are tragedies but they are always posted with little remarks like "too bad the six year old didn't have a gun" or "lucky the kid had his freedom" or whatever. There are serious, enlightening sites with statistics tracking gun deaths since Newtown and I'd rather we have a link to those then to have, what is it this past 24 hours, a half dozen dead child threads? Creating noise doesn't bring attention to something, what it does is desensitize us.

That said, I disagree that citing Newtown in the gun debate is wrong. It is very, very right and we have to avoid forgetting how horrible we all felt when we heard about it. And try to figure out how to prevent it from happening again.

[rjmacs]

$tevie wrote:
[quote=rjmacs]Is it really axe grinding to bring attention to child gun deaths?

I think it is. These are tragedies but they are always posted with little remarks like "too bad the six year old didn't have a gun" or "lucky the kid had his freedom" or whatever. There are serious, enlightening sites with statistics tracking gun deaths since Newtown and I'd rather we have a link to those then to have, what is it this past 24 hours, a half dozen dead child threads? Creating noise doesn't bring attention to something, what it does is desensitize us.

That said, I disagree that citing Newtown in the gun debate is wrong. It is very, very right and we have to avoid forgetting how horrible we all felt when we heard about it. And try to figure out how to prevent it from happening again.
$tevie, i respectfully disagree. I am much more desensitized by statistics tracking gun deaths than i am by the stories of individual children lost to senseless violence. I suppose it affects different members differently, which is fine.

[$tevie]

Eh, I fail to see how posting a child's death accompanied by a snarky remark about the second amendment or their stupid parents or whatever helps anybody.

[max]

And forgo a perfect tragedy to milk for one's own political ends?....

[decay]

max (the OP) inserted the unnecessary gun content into his post.

it wasn't in the quoted news text.


Jesus shows how it's done:

[max]

decay wrote:
max (the OP) inserted the unnecessary gun content into his post.

it wasn't in the quoted news text.

Bingo, by George he may be getting the hang of it....

decay wrote:
Jesus shows how it's done:

I am sure you intended to make some point,
but aiming Jesus at an avowed atheist, you missed it, once again, by more than a mile.

I am soooo disappointed...

[Speedy]

decay, great graphic!

[decay]

that Jesus pic wasn't for you, max - just for yuks.

[RgrF]

Appears max, the provocateur, has traded inconvenient for Bingo! Rhymes with jingo (istic).