Let's not talk about the dead children ... ... by Bob Nelson -- Please READ THE ARTICLE. The topics are EXPLICITLY defined.
So... another high school massacre. Gee... that's terrible... I guess. I don't know though, because we never really see anything.
We have lots of pictures of dead people on the other side of the world, but these dead children here in America... no. We never see our dead children.
This could have been a gunshot girl. That's the topic.
But a Mod would delete it...
We mustn't see our gunshot chidren.
We certainly don't see our gunshot children here on NewsTalkers. Heaven forbid! That would be shocking! We can wring our hands endlessly, and in many cases in the very worst of Bad Faith , but we must never see the blood...
Let's not talk about the dead children. Let's avoid imagining blood. Let's not think about shattered skulls and terror...
Hey! I've got a great idea! Let's just change the topic. Let's talk about something futile, so that, very quickly, we'll all get tired of of it... and move on to something else.
Let's not talk about
the dead children
the GUNSHOT children
the children who continue to die monstrous deaths so that a few asocial egomaniacs can go on fantasizing about being Rambo...
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Cassie Bernall was shot to death at Columbine.
She was 17.
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Have you noticed? At every slaughter of children, someone on NT posts something about guns... but not about the dead children. In fact... they forbid any posting about the dead children.
The purpose of those seeds is most definitely not to find a means of stopping the slaughter. On the contrary.
Those seeds are meant to "shift the conversation" as the spin-masters say. The people who post about guns... but forbid mentioning the dead children... are trying to manipulate us. They know that if we think about the children, blasted into hamburger, we will be horrified, disgusted, angry, and wanting serious action to stop the slaughter.
These people know that they can "manage" any NT conversation on what to do, because they can stir the pot enough to avoid concensus. They know that people will tire of the same-old-same-old. And everything will fall back into apathy until the next massacre.
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The only way for the children to stop dying is for us all to agree that the horror must stop... and for that, we must see the horror... we must speak of the horror...
We must not let a few asocial egomaniacs manipulate us into forgetting the
GUNSHOT CHILDREN
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There are two topics here:
- the slaughtered children
- the cynical efforts of some people, including members of NT, to "shift the conversation"... to trick us into forgetting the children.
I will ask anyone who posts on any other topic to leave the conversation.
I'm confident that Perrie will back me up. 
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I hope that everyone can read the topics this time... They were in ordinary text in the previous version... so I guess they were impossible to read, for many members...
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