I was wondering when it would come up and of course Fox News doesn’t disappoint in the “being oblivious assholes to the real issue” department.
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Frustratingly, it’s not just Fox. The AP is also running the story itself, as evidenced by the fact that it surfaced with a nearly-identical headline on my local paper’s website with an AP byline.
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“I don’t like knee-jerk politically charged speculation when a Muslim is the “obvious suspect” and I don’t like it here either.”
Your sentence is ambiguous – "and I don't like it here either" I took to be modifying everything through "obvious suspect". There is nothing in your sentence that demands that I interpret it as you do. I should've asked you to clarify. But would you have clarified if had not irritated you?
(And would I have responded if I had not found your reply irritating?)
The other thing is, I think you would have to admit that the "let's wait and see until all the facts are in" is an overused trope of the NRA-supporting legislators who will never change their outlook no matter what facts are in.
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I think you need to ignore some pretty big red flags to go with your reading, including the quotes around “obvious suspect” and very awkward use of “either”.
Yeah, I tend to engage a lot, probably too much 
It’s also the trope everyone on our side uses when the attack has the standard characteristics of an Islamic terrorist, because it’s generally a good idea to wait for the relevant facts.
Now, I don’t think it’s a very good excuse to refrain from blaming guns in this case because it’s fairly hard to envision a sequence of events where further facts would have fundamentally undercut arguments for gun control.
But blaming a right wing terrorist was going way out on a limb, and as it turns out a non-existent limb at that.
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I don’t think you do…
Hospitalized for mental illness, yet had no trouble purchasing handguns or keeping them. Thank you NRA, and thank you Congress.
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Ok, it may have taken longer than 10 seconds, but they eventually did it:
Wonder no more!
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Fuck.
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Quite.
Also, those darn headphones are to blame:
According to him, everyone needs to spend every moment in every public space expecting that someone might shoot them and being ready to react. I mean, he’s literally describing PTSD as a necessary prerequisite for living in the US.
The awfulness of these people is beyond parody.
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