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[Shamash]

Four found in D.C. fire were slain, police say:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141095749

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/probe-continues-into-mysterious-deaths-of-four-in-burning-dc-home/2015/05/15/8936d0aa-fb24-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html

Four people killed (mass murder), including a child. In DC, a few minutes from Joe Biden's house.

Oh wait, the murders were done with blades and blunt objects. As far as the Bansalot crowd is concerned, nothing to see here, move along. Call me cynical, but I think that if this multiple homicide of a prominent DC family had been done with a gun we'd already have a thread with 200 "Fuck the NRA!" comments in it...

Seriously. I did a quick google search for "shooting" and "DC" for the past month, site-specific to DU and got 8 pages of results. Do it for "stabbing" or "stab" or "knifing" or "blade" and you get 0, 1 or 2 results (not pages of results, just results). It's almost like in some people's eyes, the object is more important than the lives involved.