Why did I expect anything good to come from this thread?
All these shootings do is give people an excuse to politicize tragedy and demand more or less gun control.
Agreed, with a mass shooting happening every few weeks the one thing we should never do is talk about guns.
Imagine if that is what we said about seat belts or cigarettes or leaded gasoline.
Governments dissect the corpses of victims of cigarette smoking, take pictures of their organs, and use them for ad campaigns. But in America we can't talk about guns because it would be "inappropriate". Guns aren't religious artifacts. I don't have to wait for them to stop killing people to discuss them.
Is that why you want us to ban both guns and cigarettes?
Also, as far as I'm aware, nobody's ever started a campaign against cigarettes because it killed about fifty people in a mass murder. Using the dead as a rally cry is morally wrong and utterly reprehensible.
