Curious... seattle self-censorship, or worse?

[bigmacbear]

I happened to be reading an article in the seattle community about the shootings last night at Chop Suey in Capitol Hill, and followed a link in the comments to the Slog's take on the incident. On returning from the link, quoth the Raven, "404" -- page not found. It appears the LJ article has been obliterated from the system.

Now I did notice that the original poster was a bit concerned about receiving responses in her mailbox, and had edited the original post to read, in part, "I don't want to discuss it anymore". So that could be a simple case of the original poster getting cold feet. But once a message is deleted, there is no way to find out who deleted it or why.

My take:

It is a tragedy when someone gets killed for no good reason, no matter who it is, and there are in the end no good reasons for killing someone, but only sadly necessary ones such as self-defense.

Absolute prevention of crime is impossible, just as perfect security is an unattainable goal. Thus talk of banning this or that genre of music, confiscating all guns, and the like is in the end futile. Blaming guns, hip-hop music, or anyone else but the shooter is useless, and fixing the blame is usually not helpful in fixing the problem.

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At the risk of making light of a serious subject

[gmjambear]

I'm waiting for a news story about a shootout at a venue like Benaroya Hall because someone got PO'ed that the Seattle Symphony played the wrong orchestral piece. Will the mayor threaten to shut down the place?

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

I'm not a reader of that community so can't say one way or the other other than to say, perhaps someone, a moderator pulled the post for reasons unknown, possibly for safety of the OP, but then again, it could be for the comments left to it, I don't know.

I just now heard about the shootings when I read your post and linked over to the slog.

Interesting that some of comments on there are pretty crass to say the least.