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102. No, I explicitly said that posting the story as a political false equivalency was crap.

My point is that automatically responding to the story as if that is the case every time it is presented is unfair. I don't have an agenda, except that I don't like to see children targeted for violence. We don't need to hide the story about children being horrifically attacked in China to make the case that this horrific attack was awful and needs to be addressed. I'm not saying that was your point, but I have seen what amounts to that attitude displayed on DU today.

I have been on DU for eight years and I've never made a pro-gun post, nor have I ever been uncivil to you. As a student of Asian culture and a friend of Asian people this story is closer to me than it might be to others, for reasons that have nothing to do with the weapons of choice. Those children, their families, and their suffering are real to me. It shouldn't be downplayed.

And for the record I have family who live not thirty minutes from this school in Connecticut, who just brought a newborn baby into the world last night. I have no doubt it is affecting them deeply and I have followed this story closely because it does indeed "break my heart." I don't know what else to tell you.