"More people die each day in US shootings than in Iraq . . . "

[TomClash]

. . . so casualties aren't so bad.

This "brilliant" comment came from a conservative colleague.

I was so flummoxed by this "logic" I shook my head and walked away in disgust.

I hate these people.

[NoPasaran]

1. I guess dead Iraqis don't count n/t

[eleonora]

2. WTF! Where's the comparison?

Your colleague's warped logic is so typical. I feel for you.

[izzie]

3. And more people die on the roads every year than in the WTC

So guess that was not to bad. Did you ask about that?

[TomClash]

5. I was too put off to even bother

I just had to vent here.

[SheilaT]

6. Actually, more people die

every two months on the roads in this country than in all of the Sept 11th event. And yes, I think that's a way of keeping what happened on Sept 11th in some kind of perspective. Or maybe, the perspective is how many die needlessly in car accidents every year.

[katmondoo]

10. The people dying here are not creating terrorists

For every Iraqi killed how many family memebers will want revenge?

[SheilaT]

4. Next time that happens,

you could act astonished and say you thought that guns made people safe, and since so many people in the U.S. have guns, you thought this must be the safest country on the planet.

I've run across that "logic" myself, and I cannot understand it at all.

Right now I'm listening to NPR's report on what's going on in Fallujah, and some American military officer is being quoted as saying that you'd have to occupy every single building there to be certain there were no more insurgents left.

[LiberalFighter]

13. Then someone should had told him...

Then why the fuck aren't you? You stupid son of bitch!!

[laruemtt]

7. i would just say isn't it ironic since we're so "uncivilized"

here,we're going around the world trying to "civilize" other countries? evidently, we don't have it so together here after all to be telling other countries how to live!

[BlueEyedSon]

8. Smoking kills 400,000 Americans a year. Can we attack and

occupy Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds? Maybe grab their CEOs from spider-holes and put them on ice?

[liberal N proud]

9. And everyone wonders why shrub got back in the white house

IT is the ignorance displayed by people like that.
We all have had similar conversations with equally stupid repukes.

[OneTwentyoNine]

11. Then why did we invade???

What did we have to fear from SH??

Thow that back in their fucking face next time they pull that old tired shit.

[LWolf]

12. It's not an excuse for killing people, is it?

It's actually an indictment of US domestic policy, allowing our communities to devolve into poverty, violence, and an underclass of "have nots." If we poured all of our resources into our own cities and communities instead of into Iraq, how many deaths would we have prevented, both in Iraq and at home?

[City Lights]

14. Is he "pro-life?"

:eyes:

The dismissive attitude the pro-life crowd displays toward the dead never ceases to amaze me.

[whodiedandmadeUSgod]

15. Compare the populations of the entire US

with that of Iraq, which I heard once could be compared to the state of California. So how many people are killed by shootings in that state in one day? That would be a more equal comparison. Could also bring up the fact that the assault weapons ban was allowed by this administration to expire. Expect shootings to increase.
Sue

[slackmaster]

17. Why do you expect shootings to increase?

Please be specific.

[TomClash]

16. It is almost useless to argue with these people nt

[American Tragedy]

18. The United States is the third most populous nation on Earth

one would expect homocides there to outnumber Iraq for Christ's sake.

That is assuming that the numbers that he is using are accurate, which I question.

[EMP]

19. kick

[Lisa]

20. so if people get shot in the US, it's okay?

Gee. I'm amazed. I mean, I never thought there'd be a situation where someone used US firearms statistics as a POSITIVE point in an argument.

[Purrfessor]

21. So why didn't you shoot him?

n/t