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What is the point of this arbitrary comparison? Yes, there are more automotive deaths than mass shooting deaths, so what? Are you trying to say mass shootings are no big deal because car accidents kill more people or do you have some kind of principled stance against government investigations?

> Government always uses emotional tragedies to grab authoritarian power

Is that what you think is happening here? If so, could you please elaborate on why you think this?



I was replying to this specific part:

* "We should better monitor these sites" might be an entirely valid conclusion.*

No, we should not have to monitor sites for the minuscule chance that a psychopath is planning a mass shooting. Senators are already pushing this type of surveillance on social media, it's a matter of time before this type of surveillance is used against thought crimes, and people that don't agree with the establishment.




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