[SoOW2LeA]

You're no fun.

[arrendabomnem]

Good point, Loin. I think it's probably because of number three.

[Forexampleee]

MrFun, we aren't blind. We saw that the first time you posted it, and it hasn't gotten any more poignant.

[Borzopayn]

I'm wondering why people are up in arms about Asher using a mass murder to make a point about gun control, when nobody seemed to care when Slowwhand did the same thing just a few days ago. Some possibilities I've thought of:
1. Nobody read Slowwhand's thread because they assumed it was yet another birthday thread
2. The victims in Slowwhand's thread were Chinese, so who cares
3. Slowwhand's thread was anti gun control while Asher's is pro gun control, so Asher's attracted more criticism
4. Eveybody figured that it would be a lost cause to explain to Slowwhand why he is a terrible person, but thought that Asher might be more amenable to criticism
5. MrFun didn't **** on Slowwhand's thread in the second post, so it attracted less attention
6. ???

1, 3, and most of all 4

[hhynmtrxcp]

I'm wondering why people are up in arms about Asher using a mass murder to make a point about gun control, when nobody seemed to care when Slowwhand did the same thing just a few days ago. Some possibilities I've thought of:
1. Nobody read Slowwhand's thread because they assumed it was yet another birthday thread
2. The victims in Slowwhand's thread were Chinese, so who cares
3. Slowwhand's thread was anti gun control while Asher's is pro gun control, so Asher's attracted more criticism
4. Eveybody figured that it would be a lost cause to explain to Slowwhand why he is a terrible person, but thought that Asher might be more amenable to criticism
5. MrFun didn't **** on Slowwhand's thread in the second post, so it attracted less attention
6. ???

Sloww posted a non birthday thread!!?

[rostpribru]

Domestic Terrorism also confirmed. The SPLC had an active file on him going back more than a decade, for crying out loud.

But he was still able to use a legally obtained firearm...

GUN CONTROL = CULLING THE AMERICAN HERD SINCE 1791

[Alupleintilla]

Curiosity killed the cat?

[Plokiikmol]

That is an all too common theme: Nutjob known for years finally 'goes postal' (a term coined from a mass shooting in the US postal service, n'est ce pas? ) and legally obtains weapons to kill people...

Anyway, I don't care as I don't live there - these days I just point and laugh at the stupidity of it all because a bunch of disproportionately powerful immature tiny penis WASPs wants the right to play toy soldiers from time to time...

* Points and laughs!

[mtautomoscow]

I would expect the thread title to affect the number of replies but not the content of those replies. Yet Slowwhand's thread has dozens of replies, but you're saying that nobody told him that the thread was tasteless because his thread title was boring?

I'm going to start a thread called "I like kittens" about how I sacrifice kittens to Satan. It's not a tasteless thread because look at the title I'd be using!

Really? You don't think an intentionally inflammatory thread title wouldn't affect the nature of the replies?

[P1international]

Really? You don't think an intentionally inflammatory thread title wouldn't affect the nature of the replies?

Are you saying that people read Slowwhand's thread and thought "well he's being disrespectful to the victims, but with a thread title that boring I just can't muster any outrage"? Because that would be a stupid thing to say.

If you're not saying that then you're merely being disingenuous.

[layedgebiamma]

It needn't be so... gleeful is the wrong word. Smug? I don't know.

And I say this as someone who hates guns and really really likes Asher. Like, "like" likes Asher.

I'm totally gay for Asher.

Americans should be sickened by the crime, and the fact that a certifiable white supremacist who was kicked out of the Army can legally buy semi-automatic handguns.

"waiting" an arbitrary amount of time before we can express contempt for the crime and the ridiculous arguments that made it possible serves no point but to try to sweep it under the rug.

[Grorointeri]

I understood that to mean he was shooting inanimate targets, not terrified Indian-Americans.

[Petrushkaukrop]

I understood that to mean he was shooting inanimate targets, not terrified Indian-Americans.

So what? It's hardly an appropriate thread to discuss the joy of shooting guns, particularly when the poster got all high-and-mighty about the timing of the thread.

[TerriLS]

Domestic Terrorism also confirmed. The SPLC had an active file on him going back more than a decade, for crying out loud.

Would you say it's entirely reasonable to ban somebody with "red flags" from purchasing handguns?