KY school shooting

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(01-24-2018, 06:50 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Not a horrible idea.  The only thing is, what constitutes a "mass shooting"?  If you use the definition that gun control advocates like to use then the vast majority of "mass shooting" victims are gang member or other criminals being shot by gang members or other criminals.  I also think such a memorial would be cynically twisted by gun control advocates who have already demonstrated on myriad occasions that they will not shrink from blatant falsehoods to push their agenda.

Anytime the shooting leads to people bringing up the question of gun control and being told to quit politicizing tragedy and that we need to offer thoughts and prayers, seems to work for me.  It's also interesting you bring up gang shootings and then bring up pushing agendas via falsehoods, but that's a side debate that gets away from my initial idea.

Anyone who is killed in a shooting that leads to thoughts and prayers being sent en-masse should get a monument and be remembered as people who died in the name of freedom.  That doesn't count gang members, people who are shot because their toddlers grabbed their guns, single-person homicides where the victims intimately know the shooter, and so on.

When someone dies in WWII we don't say he was killed by a rogue crazy Nazi he never met, we say he died protecting our freedoms/us/this country/the Flag, etc. When someone is shot by a random nutbag he/she never met we say that he/she died to protect our freedoms and so on and so forth. No more lone wolf, no more troubled loner...it's time we just call this death in the name of freedom. If this stuff isn't going away, we should at least find a way to be proud of the people who are getting gunned down.

You can compare it to being a veteran because in both cases you could probably have run off to Canada and not have been shot and killed, but you didn't run. You stood your ground despite being told of the danger.