Shooting in CO--and even here we allow that to distract us

[GaYellowDawg]

16. That's really poor argumentation.

Your original objection was that the story continues to be talked about after 12 hours and has fomented pointless gun debates all over again. Had nothing to do with one person getting stabbed at a theater. This reply is just about useless, because it does nothing to buttress your original point - or is your objection that the tragedy wasn't big enough to warrant the ongoing discussion? So perhaps you can tell me how you divide stories like this that are worthy of discussion less than 24 hours after the incident vs. those that aren't. For a 24 hour discussion:

- how many bodies do you require?
- how many injuries do you require?

Maybe I can help. I'm assuming that since your original objection came approximately 12 hours after a mass shooting in which 12 people died, your limit for discussing the shooting is an hour per victim. Now, if we extrapolate that to other tragedies, then you would have had us

- stop discussing the Columbine massacre after 13 hours
- stop discussing the Virginia Tech massacre after 1 day and 8 hours
- stop discussing the Oklahoma City bombings after 1 week
- stop discussing 9/11 on January 13, 2002

Please. I hope you can see just how ridiculous this objection to people discussing a tragedy actually is. "Keep your eye on the ball, people, stuff like this happens, and we've gotta get Romney!" Some of us do not limit our conversations or our outrage to the latest Republican politician.