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In reply to the discussion: The right of the People [View all]deathrind
(1,786 posts)This was not a "single act of an emotion". I understand how diminishing it and blaming it on an emotion helps to justify the lack of concern because how does one fight an emotion.
In reality this was crime called murder where 49 innocent people died another 53 were injured and many many families lives were irrevocably changed. A crime that happens pretty regularly where the body count is increasingly rising from one event to the next, mainly due to technology advances in firearms/firing mechanism. A crime committed by a person who purchased the items needed to commit mass murder with little to no difficulty.
When framed in a reality based context the true nature an magnatude of these events become self evident and the need to address the ease with which one can commit such a heinous crime becomes clear as well.