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PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. We don't really need to review every single incident of mass violence

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 06:10 PM

Oct 2017

every time a new one occurs.

And the event in Las Vegas is the work of one person. Not a mob.

One person with high-powered automatic weapons. Not a mob.

Somehow I see a difference between what happened Sunday and what happened in all those other referenced events.

Yes, we can't gloss over our country's history of violence, but if you say anything at all like: "Oh, Las Vegas was small stuff. Just look at what happened all these other times" you are missing just how Las Vegas was different from all those other times.

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Calling Las Vegas Massacre Deadliest Shooting In U.S. History Erases Our Violent Past [View all] sheshe2 Oct 2017 OP

We don't really need to review every single incident of mass violence PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2017 #1

It was a massacre, no matter if it was one or two hundred that commited the act. sheshe2 Oct 2017 #5

Most all refer to it as the largest in MODERN history... nt Raine Oct 2017 #2

Or the battle of Gettysburg for that matter, but jberryhill Oct 2017 #3

K&R Solly Mack Oct 2017 #4

It is racist to lie and exaggerate about it johnsonsnap Oct 2017 #6

It does appropriate history from indigenous peoples, and the week before their day also Not Ruth Oct 2017 #7