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It's appropriate _now_ to discuss the shooting; but I'm not really sure it's ever going to be appropriate to turn the Onion's blistering satire into a punchline here.

What the Onion did is a valid, necessary, mildly amusing, but incredibly pointed and powerful criticism of the gun problem in America.

What this article is doing is making that criticism into a punchline in and of itself. That is what is disrespectful.




In case you didn't know, The Onion uses the article format as a template with only names/places/dates changed for quite a lot of major mass shootings.


Indeed. The templating just reinforces the critique, too.




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