*in before this tragedy in China somehow manages to get turned into a debate about domestic policies in the US by people who think everything has to be about America (good or bad)


Oh snap, I just did it myself. I hate myself.

friends or family were victims.

Will keep people posted.

It's ALWAYS the anti-gun gun crowd that equates sex with firearms. That's weird and really kind of sick. Sounds like you're the one who has the issues with sex and firearms.

Did you?

before you start projecting your own issues on others.

Adversing has a long history of using attractive people to sell things including food, cigarettes, clothes, cars, motorcycles, romance novels and probably a dozen more categories.

Nice try at twisting and projection, though.

Unlike you I don't equate firearms with sex

The only people who associate sex with guns are invariably the anti-rights/anti gun crowd.

in a post regarding a horrible, probably politically motivated, attack.

There is a lot of hate in you. Can't imagine going through life with that much hate in me.

I'm not pro gun, I'm not anti gun. I do have a few guns in my home, however.

Sometimes I do have a tendency to see men who love guns as having a particular penile fixation. Or, to put it another way, it often seems to me that they're trying to compensate for what they feel they may lack.

Whether that's true or not...who knows.

IMO, the person you've been fighting with here wasn't equating the GUN with sex. He seemed to be saying that gun-types were likely having paroxysms of delight over the fact that one of the few hundred times already this year humans died, it wasn't by way of a gun.

He could just as easily have said that no doubt the gun lovers would be pissing themselves silly over it. But it came out the way it did.

I'm not saying he has a gun=sex obsession, but even if he did...

What's it to you?

Humans manage to find a hundred ways to kill each other, whether it's guns, knives, bombs, poison, crashing airplanes or whatever.

But you choose to focus on whether or not a random person on an internet discussion group has a guns=sex obsession. I just wonder why...

and not the first time this poster has made the comparison:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=138447

And I agree, the human species has been killing each other for thousands of years, be it with bare hands or nukes.

even when he doesn't.

I refer you to Part 2, Chapters 7 & 8


Sexualization of gun culture is not my side's problem, it's yours. You guys were doing it long before we started pointing out that you were doing it.

kthxbye

That's how they imagine it so that must be true...

It is distorting your view of humanity.

Deal?

what do you think about our violent police state having guns? Do you have a problem with the military having guns?

I can't imagine the horror!

And by the way, that is really shitty if anyone is using this tragedy to exploit their political agendas rather than mourn the loss of life. Chinese are people too--not props for gungeoneers.

The hypocrjsy is strong.

"See, why restrict guns at all, this latest school shooter could've just use a knife, like happened that one time in China."

We both know that's going to happen. After Sandy Hook, many were pointing to knifing incidents that hadn't even killed anyone, trying to make that same argument.

Not really. I don't have a beard.

But i can make stuff up too.

Hypocrisy is right on the money.

Though I'm from the "other side" my first thought is simply how horrible.

Hopes wishes and prayers to your family members living there and all victims

My heart goes out the victims of this horrendous crime.
RIP to the victims and condolences to the families.

I can't imagine minding your own damn business and then a whole group attacks.






It's a shame that the usual childish bickering broke out in this thread.

The victims and their families.

There may be people who read these forums who have family or friends involved.

Some comments have been disgusting and should be removed.

I'm agreeing with a Republican!

There are issues in life that transcend political parties, and are human issues.

Welcome to DU.

Good thing they didn't have guns or bombs, though, or the tragic civilian death toll would have been much higher.

It could be separatists, but who knows? I doubt any story about internal power struggles would get past the censors.

And it's pretty miserable for Uyghurs now, as the government is trying to turn Xinjiang into a Han dominated province through oppression and population transfers. It doesn't help that their's heavy discrimination against them in other parts of China as well.