# Pit thread for Martin\_Hyde {He has been BANNED}

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 24, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-thread-for-martin-hyde-he-has-been-banned/965045 "2022-05-24T22:52:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-thread-for-martin-hyde-he-has-been-banned/965045/17 "2022-05-24T23:18:12Z")

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> [@Martin\_Hyde](#):
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> This isn’t true–I was actually intentionally opening the floor to the politics inherent to incidents like this, which I think frankly most of the regular suspects I see posting in these threads are in a grave delusion about.

You mean with this gem of a false premise:

> [@Uvalde, Texas school shooting - the political thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-the-political-thread/965036/9):
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> > I wonder why there is a big contingent of people who are mostly concerned about solving the ~450 (c. 2020) gun homicides that occur in “fantastical and media frenzy inspiring” mass shootings but seem oblivious or uninterested in the 13,000 other gun homicides that occur.

Stranger

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