These are the times that try Facebook friends' souls.

[Atman]

Man...I live fairly close to the tragedy that happened yesterday in Newtown, CT. But I'm amazed at the number of Facebook friends of friends of people-who-aren't-really-friends who have come out of the woodwork to tell me what I should be thinking. The most common is, of course, that Lanza could have done the same damage with a rolling pin or a piece of rope, and therefore we shouldn't even be discussing Obama's obvious desire to come to your home and confiscate all of your guns.

So many things to be sad about...the children and families affected, first and foremost. But also, just how stupid our country has become.

One poster even mentioned how everything used to be great in the sixties, when there were practically no gun laws. I pointed out that that was before Ronald Reagan virtually eliminated mental health care in America, and military weapons weren't available at Civic Center gun shows. Crickets.

[enlightenment]

1. I got to read a fascinatingly illogical

argument that went something like this:

"People who live in rough, rural areas like central Kansas (?) need guns to protect themselves from wild animals . . . my friend's wife (apparently the poster - a woman - was not a friend of the wife) was killed when she went out to the henhouse and was attacked by a deer in rut. Now, whenever I visit my friend at his farm, he makes me strap on a sidearm before I step outside the door."

Response:

"Deer in rut??"

Reply:

"Yes - and that's why I have guns and why my children have guns. You'll never take my guns away. I need them."

Response:

"In order to protect yourself from angry deer."

Reply:

"Yes. It's my constitutional right."

Response:

"umm. Right. Got it."

[OmahaBlueDog]

2. So far I've seen....

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Before rushing to judgment, this was posted by a friend of mine who is a Green, but who voted for Obama 2x and is a stalwart proponent of organic foods and fighting GMO crops.


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[Freddie]

3. I have a few "2nd amendment rights!!" friends

And have not heard one peep from them on this, despite a couple anti-gun posts from me. Could they actually be thinking about how wrong they are?

[Hugin]

4. What really torqued me to the point of almost de friending everyone on my list...

Was that those A-holes at Facebook and their damn un-deletable and unblockable "Sponsored" ad crap on my news-feed started pushing out the NRA talking points directly from the desk of that freeking Wayne guy via some "like" that one of my "friends" had done ages ago on something only marginally gun related.

I'm still so furious I can't even talk straight.

FACEBOOK SUCKS and IT'S SUCKING EVEN MORE THAN EVER! :ugh:

[bbernardini]

5. I actually dropped somebody I've known since kindergarten from my friend list over this.

Hell, I even have a picture her dad drew on the other side of the wall I'm facing now. She posted a picture of a t-shirt that basically said the same thing as Fischer and Huckabee did. That was the final straw.

[Posteritatis]

6. I've got a "depressing media circus" filter on my FB account

It's got everyone except the people who, for a week or two after any high-profile disaster or the like, post absurd amounts of sanctimonious image macros or the standard "ooh! an excuse for me to trot out my pet issue's talking points!" and so on.

Something like this happens, I browse via that filter for a few days and miss a whole lot of bullshit as a result.