How to shut down a Facebook conversation
A friend of mine put up a Facebook comment about the shooting at LAX, in which he spoke movingly about the very nice TSA people he’s met there, as his job requires a great deal of travel. The very first comment to his post about a personal tragedy said, “We need to acknowledge that America has a problem not currently being addressed, and find a way to solve it.”
I somehow divined that this guy wasn’t talking about inadequate care for the mentally ill, but about guns, so I put in my two cents: “I completely agree with you, Roger. If we had more good guys with guns, bad guys with guns wouldn’t be able to get away with this kind of thing.”
*Crickets*
Incidentally, I later read that LAX had only recently removed its armed guards from the area where the shooting occurred:
3:13 p.m. Months before Friday’s shooting at LAX, officials removed armed police officers from their permanent assignments protecting TSA checkpoints, one veteran airport police officer told The Times.