Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
I guarantee you will not find a post by me like that about the Southport stabbings. Feel free to search my history

The 'whoosh' exchange was me highlighting the irony in your reply, sorry that you missed it.

Offering condolences is fine. Offering condolences and doing nothing to help, and in fact doing more to make it worse, when you are literally the only people who can do something about it, is not fine.

There are hundreds of school shootings in the US. We can use the facts of any of those if you're worried that the blood isn't dry enough on this one.
Glad you agree that offering condolences is fine. That's my point.

I think we both agree that the fact assault weapons are legal is also a fkn disgrace, even within the context of the right to bear arms. I've literally said that already. So we agree there too.

But instantly demanding they be banned when one is used in a mass shooting when millions own and support their ownership just won't work. I wish it would and it would in other countries but it plainly isn't there. The polarisation is massive and having a default setting of politicizing it makes a solution less not more likely.

Theres a tonne of other issues too. Why is this happening more often? Why him? Was there a motive? Why the loose relationship between gun ownership and murders within states? What's the legal definition of arms? What to do with the millions in circulation? Etc etc.

I know you aren't saying its a simple thing, but it really isn't. We all wish it was, but it's not and condemning someone offering condolences after a tragic event doesn't make a solution any closer.