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Flagged-dead really quickly?

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This seemed like a fair article, and had 26 votes quite quickly before being censored:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15402460

Cmon folks.

I vouched for it the first time it was flagged-dead, because it shows a person who held one belief, looked at the data, and then revised her belief based on that data, something that I think we should all do more often. And then she communicated her findings, lucidly and IMHO persuasively (the fivethirtyeight article it was based on is also great). It was momentarily revived but flagged dead again within 2 minutes.

Unfortunately, looking at the comments, I'm beginning to think the flagging was appropriate. It seems that this community can't discuss the topic calmly and rationally - both sides just brought their preconceptions into the topic and assumed they were correct and anyone who said otherwise was wrong. In that case, I think flagging is the correct response.

  looking at the comments, I'm beginning to think the flagging was appropriate

Flagging/downvoting the comments would be appropriate in that case; the article should stand on its own merit.

There is no debate, Guns are legal in this country. We must be able to defend ourselves from all threats both foreign and domestic, having access to the same level that our military employs.

Guns do not kill people. Unstable disturbed people kill people. It is not the tool used to cause death, it's the person that wields it. We still haven't solved a core problem of our species, but we have invented easier ways to kill each other.

Stop blaming the Guns, bombs, swords, sticks and stones. start looking at the real problem.

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