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>Most recently the excitement and focus on Sandy Hook has frustrated me. 1 Sandy Hook occurs every day in the United States. Dude, no. "An act of gun violence"
by mattdeboard 14y ago
>Most recently the excitement and focus on Sandy Hook has frustrated me. 1 Sandy Hook occurs every day in the United States.
Dude, no. "An act of gun violence" is not "20 elementary school children killed in their elementary school." There is not 1 Sandy Hook every day. It is the Olympics of moral equivocation to boil what happened there to "an act of gun violence." Why would you be frustrated that people got more worked up over 20 little kids being murdered in their classrooms than other "acts of gun violence"?
- jdunck 14y ago30 people per day are killed with guns in the US. Some of those people are kids. Probably less than 20 kids per day, you're right. I do not hold a child's life higher than an adult's. I realize that's a weird thing to lots of people. Maybe that's weird to you? Anyway, I do agree that a single actor causing all that harm is a different thing, yes. We should fix that. I just hate that we ignore ongoing disasters because it doesn't make a good news story. EDIT: I didn't downvote Matt and don't think people should. Don't downvote things you disagree with. His is a valid response and this is a place for discussion (right)?