The mistake you're making is assuming that I gave kudos to Thump's post because of the per capita murder rate comment (more on that in a moment). My agreement with Thump in that post was the more substantive "...let not the perfect be the enemy of the good. Simply because a law doesn't eliminate all acts it outlaws doesn't mean that law should be stricken."
The identified problem is mass murders with guns, not murder in general. Invoking general murder and violent crime statistics is a red herring as its only purpose is to distract from the original problem. The only position you can possible be taking is that since the general per capita murder statistics are relatively low in global comparisons is that there isn't really a problem to be resolved.
You are also wanting it both ways. You figuratively hug up to friends and family of victims and the population in general with the 'too soon to talk about it' and 'people are politicizing a tragedy' schtick; however, obfuscating the problem and not addressing it is nothing more than a giant 'fuck off and quit whining' to the same when you pretend there isn't a problem to be solved at such time you think it's appropriate to have the discussion.
The identified problem is mass murders with guns, not murder in general. Invoking general murder and violent crime statistics is a red herring as its only purpose is to distract from the original problem. The only position you can possible be taking is that since the general per capita murder statistics are relatively low in global comparisons is that there isn't really a problem to be resolved.
You are also wanting it both ways. You figuratively hug up to friends and family of victims and the population in general with the 'too soon to talk about it' and 'people are politicizing a tragedy' schtick; however, obfuscating the problem and not addressing it is nothing more than a giant 'fuck off and quit whining' to the same when you pretend there isn't a problem to be solved at such time you think it's appropriate to have the discussion.
