I f**king despise both sides of this "issue" so much. You couldn't even wait for the poor guy to be underground before running to your precooked talking points, could you?
RIP to a massive FF who deserved much, much better, and I hope the murderer rots in jail for what he did. This is a human life, not a piece of a grand ideological narrative.
This was the same logic used by the Republicans in the wake of Parkland when Democrats started immediately pushing for more gun control. I did not buy the hand-wringing from them, so I can't buy it from you either. It doesn't behoove us to treat incidents like these as though they're completely isolated from the political sphere. Politics is the realm in which we work to remedy social ills. If someone is killed as a result of corporate negligence, a proliferation of weapons, or the failure to effectively integrate a minority community, then it is our responsibility to discuss how to fix those problems so that we can avoid future deaths.
This country has a weird belief that "you can't play politics with tragedies." Well, politics doesn't just stop operating during particularly gruesome events. I'd actually argue that that's when we need politics the most.
I'm not against making policy recommendations in the wake of a tragedy that are aimed to avoid similar tragedies from happening again. Notice that this is not what some people in this thread are doing. What they're doing is just rehashing their shallow culture-war talking points in order to feed their sense of self-righteousness. This isn't even politics, it's just jerking yourself off over a corpse.
