I truly feel for the family. They lost a loved one and are now the center of a media circus.
Would I be wrong to mention that people are gunned down 30+ times a day in America, or would it be too soon? In American, I guess people only notice violence when the people killed are all in the same place.
It’s not too soon. This boorishly lunkheaded comment will never be appropriate.
Young lives snuffed out because some fools want to make a political statement. You would think that in this day and age people could find better ways to attract media attention than by committing acts of terror.
My prayers go out to their family.
You know, I can wrap my head around the mentality that says “God will forgive me for slaughtering innocents.” I can even grasp the mentality behind the gag-inducing prayer that God bless a particular nation’s war aims. But I simply cannot grasp the mentality that says God demands and is highly pleased by the slaughter of innocents.
But, that’s what makes us human. Really not much of anything we can’t turn into a reason to kill. Religion, ideology, personal or family honor, ethnicity.
Art, I guess. About the only higher human aspiration we haven’t been able to turn into a reason for mass slaughter. Only kill each other by ones and twos, and on occasion, over art unless we get it entangled with one of the usual reasons.
You are not wrong to mention. Yes, this family suffered a terrible loss. But on this site I think it is entirely appropriate to mention that many other families suffer terrible losses, not noted by the media, because of wrong-headed pro-gun politics.