Does John McCain Care More About Deaths in Syria Than Gun Violence in America?

[SecularMotion]

Please read these two statistics and notice your emotional reaction to them. Do they make you angry? Do they make you eager for government action? When you digest these roughly equivalent numbers, do they stir you equally?

A Human Rights groups says more than 150,000 civilians, rebels, and members of the Syrian military have been killed in the nation's three-year conflict.

A U.S. gun-control group says more than 100,000 Americans are shot every year in murders, assaults, suicides, and suicide attempts and accidents.

For Sen. John McCain, the hawkish Republican senator from Arizona, the first number makes him spitting mad, literally—as judged Wednesday from my front-row seat at the Harvard Institute of Politics forum, where he answered questions from a moderator and students.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/does-john-mccain-care-more-about-deaths-in-syria-than-gun-violence-in-america-20140424

[Scuba]

1. No, but he's very concerned about MIC profits.

[pipoman]

2. React with emotion? Is that the message?

[hedgehog]

3. Yes.

[Sunlei]

4. McCain doesn't even care about the thousands of our neighbor mexicos, people who die in his state!

[hack89]

5. Roughly equivalent numbers my ass

Only deaths on one hand and total number of people shot on the other.

How many hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been wounded without being killed?

[aikoaiko]

6. Now we know that Ron Fournier from the National Journal is a slimeball.

[Iggo]

7. Trick question.

He doesn't really care about either.

[Cosmocat]

9. Correct answer

he doesn't give a shit about either, he just is some batshit crazy dude who has enough of a name back home to keep getting re-elected.

[Obnoxious_One]

8. This is pretty much rhetorical

But a great point, indeed.