Has it occurred to you that many Europeans are absolutely frightened at the thought of a holiday

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31. I can say that about anything that is irrelevant.

Tourism statistics are compiled once a year at best. They do not reflect a week old event. Comparing next year's tourism statistics to this year's will reflect the event and will therefore be relevant.
The number of people seeking to come to America reflects the number of people seeking to come to America. It does not reflect the number of people not seeking to come to America or why they are not seeking to come to America.
That's logic, not opinion or a rhetorical trick.
For someone who respects "facts" so much, you seem not to understand very well how to apply them to situations.
The Earth is an oblate spheroid. That's a fact. It's just not a relevant fact to a discussion of the impact Sandy Hook will have on tourism to the US so sadly I don't get points for "presenting facts". I get points for discussing the topic at hand- how many people who might otherwise travel to the US have been/will be put off by the recent gun violence? I don't know and neither do you. It's an interesting question. Anecdotally, it seems like something that is having an impact. Let's wait and see until the facts are in instead of posting irrelevant information and implying that gun violence has had no impact in order to shut the discussion down.