GRAPHIC IMAGE: What the reports on Allen TX aren't showing us. TRIGGER WARNING

[Straw Man]

148. I'm exaggerating nothing.

You made a proposal that I consider ghoulish. I consider it pointless and offensive. Why should I not express that opinion?

I have no fondness for this confrontation. I merely wish to spare the bereaved families from further torment.

Mutilated children don't deserve to be made into a public spectacle to satisfy some stranger's notion of a solution to a problem that is complex and terrifying and that defies simplistic moralizing. You won't change anybody's mind about anything with this type of macabre grandstanding. If anything, you will be adding fuel to the firestorm of hatred, fear, and grief that is engulfing this country. Any solution is going to involve massive social change, which will take years of concerted effort and reconciliation. Shall we talk about that? Or would you prefer to just continue screaming "Mutilated children!" as if that phrase justifies whatever scheme you've concocted, regardless of its merits or lack thereof.

If it were your own child, you would have the right to make this demand. If it isn't, then you don't. It's really that simple.