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Ozmose posted...

First of all that is an outright f***ing lie.

Your position was literally "it doesn't happen often enough to be worth worrying about it," presented with the intent of shutting down efforts to do something about the problem. Whether it's what you intended to say or not, you were 100% modded for saying that child murder wasn't a big deal.

Ozmose posted...

Second, I only had three posts in that topic, every single one was modded. Feel free to go look for yourself.

It was only one the last time I looked, but given that your other posts were doubling down on insisting that children dying at a massively inflated rate isn't indicative of a problem, I'm not overly surprised.

Ozmose posted...

I was making the point that the way it was being portrayed is total fearmongering.

And you did that by downplaying the fact that the risk is still way higher than it should be. Nobody in that topic was saying "I'm afraid to send my kids to school." Everybody was saying "this happens too often." You invented a position nobody was expressing, shot it down in a way that dismissed a very real problem in the process, and now are wondering why your conduct was deemed unfit for civilized discussion. Child murder isn't the time to break out strawman fallacies.

Regardless of how likely it is for any given child to be shot, guns are the #1 cause of mortality for those between the ages of 1 and 19 in the US. That's a problem. School shootings are only a part of that (iirc, the breakdown is something like 5% accidents, 30% suicides, 65% violent crimes, with mass shootings falling into the last category), and they do indeed get a disproportionate amount of media attention and public reaction for the level of risk they present, but the problem to which they call attention is a very real one. You can acknowledge and look past the shock value of a mass shooting (though who's really shocked at this point, with 1-2 happening every day) while still recognizing the actual scale of the problem. You didn't, entirely for the sake of pushing the agenda that there should be no improvements to American gun control regulations because you don't want to have to give up your toys (despite the fact that you're already compliant with most of the new regulations people suggest and therefore woudln't have to give up anything except filling out a bit of extra paperwork). That's why you got modded.

Don't believe me? Feel free to check the posts in which I acknowledged how low the risk is at an individual level and agreed with that part of what you were saying. They haven't been modded. Clearly, it's more than just that message that got your posts deleted, so maybe instead of throwing yourself a pity party while insisting that that was all, try thinking about how you can express your opinions in a manner more conducive to civil discussion.