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To think that it’s ironic that there isn’t one thread about the Colorado school shooting.

42 replies

Rosscameasdoody · 11/09/2025 17:41

Just that really. The press and social media have been going crazy about the assassination of Charlie Kirk and yet there are very few reports of a school shooting in Colorado at the same time, in which two students were critically injured and the gunman turned the weapon on himself.

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TooBigForMyBoots · 12/09/2025 22:46

HerewardtheSleepy · 12/09/2025 22:42

What is the point of starting a thread about it? About either of these incidents TBH?

Do you understand how discussion boards work?

MrsFrumble · 12/09/2025 22:48

Perhaps we should just stick to “shall I buy this handbag?” or “what shall I have for tea?”

To be fair, threads like that are less likely to make me weep for the future of humanity.

EchoedSilence · 12/09/2025 22:54

RufustheFactualReindeer · 12/09/2025 22:45

This

Not this.

But then if you can't see that the shooting of someone who is quite happy to sacrifice some students so he has the right to bear arms,then there's no point on trying to debate it.

Let's just shrug it off. As it happens. Nothing to see here.

GinAndJuice99 · 12/09/2025 23:02

We don't need more threads about American stuff, we have news of our own thanks.

TooBigForMyBoots · 12/09/2025 23:03

There's enough room for both.

EchoedSilence · 12/09/2025 23:07

GinAndJuice99 · 12/09/2025 23:02

We don't need more threads about American stuff, we have news of our own thanks.

Those pesky forriners bringing their news over here.

Idinnaenah · 12/09/2025 23:10

EchoedSilence · 11/09/2025 18:10

So because school shootings are common place in the good old USA we should say, oh well never mind, it happens?

But when some bigot who clearly gave no fucks about students getting murdered gets shot, we should all fall over ourselves to say how terrible it is?

Mad isn’t it? Bigoted influencer gets killed, school shootings where kids get murdered? Nah, ten a penny, thoughts and prayers, the price we pay for ‘freedom’ … fucking MAD.

MrsFrumble · 12/09/2025 23:10

MN is based in the UK, but it has users from all over the world. If a thread isn’t relevant to you, just don’t post on it.

Bigcat25 · 12/09/2025 23:16

HoskinsChoice · 11/09/2025 17:49

Where is the irony?

Obviously that someone who advocates that gun violence and death of innocent's is a price with paying so that gun nuts can have their precious guns, and he gets more sympathy than innocent children and other people who have been killed. CK didn't give a shit about strangers dying.

Where was the republican outrage when the democrat congresswomen and her husband were killed? CK wasn't even in office and he gets flags lowered.

EchoedSilence · 12/09/2025 23:19

Idinnaenah · 12/09/2025 23:10

Mad isn’t it? Bigoted influencer gets killed, school shootings where kids get murdered? Nah, ten a penny, thoughts and prayers, the price we pay for ‘freedom’ … fucking MAD.

It's insane, WTF has happened to MN? Are they so desperate for traffic that they are happy to host far right views?

RufustheFactualReindeer · 12/09/2025 23:21

EchoedSilence · 12/09/2025 22:54

Not this.

But then if you can't see that the shooting of someone who is quite happy to sacrifice some students so he has the right to bear arms,then there's no point on trying to debate it.

Let's just shrug it off. As it happens. Nothing to see here.

Where have i shrugged it off?

i have every sympathy with a poster who starts a thread and is querying why it doesn’t seem to be seen as important

i don’t have much truck with someone who has not started a thread complaining that no one has started a thread

TooBigForMyBoots · 12/09/2025 23:31

I think it's a legitimate question.

Unfortunately mass shootings in the USA have become so commonplace that most don't even get a thread on Mnet. It wasn't always like this.

Charlie Kirk was one man and his death has provoked numerous threads, yet not one thread about the Evergreen school shooting that happened the same day.

I suppose that's the patriarchy for you.Sad

RufustheFactualReindeer · 12/09/2025 23:33

Wouldn’t argue with that toobigformyboots

EchoedSilence · 12/09/2025 23:35

RufustheFactualReindeer · 12/09/2025 23:21

Where have i shrugged it off?

i have every sympathy with a poster who starts a thread and is querying why it doesn’t seem to be seen as important

i don’t have much truck with someone who has not started a thread complaining that no one has started a thread

She started this thread though. Which was a perfectly fine thread to start.

Oh I forgot he was anti trans, so an ally of FWR. Never mind all the other anti women shite he peddled.

PollyBell · 12/09/2025 23:37

Its a bit hard to keep up with all the shootings there

RufustheFactualReindeer · 12/09/2025 23:38

This is on aibu…what has FWR got to do with it

PennySweeet · 12/09/2025 23:40

Well the OP has shown how much a shit they give.

Such an important topic, they didn't bother to come back 🙄

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