Because this is a tragedy that can and should be avoided in the future:
Three police officers have been killed by a gunman in Pittsburgh – the second mass shooting in the US in 24 hours…
Police said he was waiting, armed with rifles and a bulletproof vest. He shot two officers as they entered the house, and a third who tried to help them…
His friends said he had recently lost his job, and was worried that US President Barack Obama was about to ban guns.
…I’m going to resort to the use of ALL CAPS for this.
HEY, PARANOID NUTBAGS!
OBAMA IS NOT GOING TO BAN GUNS. NO ONE IS GOING TO BAN GUNS. WE PROBABLY DON’T EVEN HAVE ENOUGH NATIONAL GUARD RESOURCES LEFT IN THE COUNTRY TO RAID YOU AND TAKE YOUR GUNS EVEN IF WE WANTED TO. WHICH WE DON’T. SO PLEASE RELAX.
And to the people who are not hoarding guns but are sending RightWingDad forwards and listening to too much Rush and finding yourself saying things like “Obama is going to force us all to volunteer in lieu of mandatory military service” (seriously, I heard that), please fucking stop. Your less stable cohorts already have enough to fear, they don’t need you adding fuel to their paranoid fires. The last thing this country needs is a bunch of ignorant, fearful, paranoid, unemployed, hopeless, bored, and possibly suicidal people who are armed to the teeth and convinced that their government is out to get them. It is, apparently, a recipe for dead cops that doesn’t take too long to cook before it’s well done.
Sometimes all caps is all you can do.