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In the surest sign yet that there may be no hope for American discourse, people on Twitter are comparing the tragic murder of 49 people at the hands of a madman with a gun to a tragic accident in which a toddler was attacked by an alligator.
These dense, cruel-minded people appear to somehow believe that an animal’s jaws are just as dangerous as an AR-15, a weapon that can spray 45 rounds per minute. For reference, the AR-15 has been used in mass shootings in Orlando, San Bernardino, Aurora, and Umpqua Community College, events that have left dozens of civilians dead; according to USA Today, if the toddler has indeed passed away, alligators have killed three people in Florida in the last decade.
Make no mistake: both events are terrible tragedies, and we will not “attention police” you for caring deeply about either one of them. But to compare a violent act of nature to the actions of a lone psychopath and somehow draw the conclusion that alligators are as big of a problem for America as guns are is at best deeply misguided and at worst shockingly amoral.
Read some of their tweets below:
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Source: twitter.com / Via: twitter.com
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Update: An initial version of this story erroneously reported that the AR-15 can fire 45 rounds per second, not per minute. The error has been corrected.