I disagree.

I’m going to be very honest...300 million guns are going to pretty much stay right where they are. There will be no massive buy out/ban/destruction of them. It’ll never pass congress and for sure never be signed into law by 45. This is our reality.

Gun control is a dead issue and political suicide for any politician. It has been since 20 dead kids proved nothing will change. It’s about time we realize that instead if asking why nothing gets done ad infinitum.

Karma is a bitch

Exactly what kind of “expensive” medical care was he getting? The North Korean government works its own people to death. Literally. They don’t give them medical care. I shudder to think what this kid has been through.

And that is also wrong and horrifying. does not negate the insanity of beating a man into a coma over a poster.

Of course it is, if the patient has been given appropriate medical care throughout the months of the coma. What kind of medical care do you think this young man was given? I don’t think the camps even have doctors. The NK government does not care. I don’t really understand how he is still alive at all. 15 months in a…

That’s also an undeserved punishment. Let’s strive to be better, not as shitty as everyone else, eh?

Sure it is, but it’s about as likely as me winning the lottery when I didn’t buy a ticket. 15 months of inadequate neurological care makes those odds even worse.

He’s reportedly been in a coma since MARCH 2016, or about 5 minutes after he appeared in videos pleading for mercy, and was sentenced. 15 months in a coma, and they finally let him go today.

It is, but it’s not common. It also depends on the level of care he’s had while in a coma, and considering North Korea isn’t a bastion of healthcare and is pro-torture, odds aren’t good he’s had the care he really needed. Even with advanced care, being in a coma causes a lot of damage like another poster said. Muscles…

That’s exactly what happened. That and caring for him probably was expensive.

So this boy essentially received a death sentence for (possibly) stealing a poster, and our dear leader admires their dear leader. What a world. :(

Yup. So basically this family is getting his body back and a chance to say goodbye. The chances of him making any meaningful recovery would be slim under the best of circumstances.

Even if he did steal it, that’s no reason to work him to death.

Besides the real victims?

The Duke LaCrosse case was much worse in my opinion—“Jackie” accused fictitious people of rape; i.e., no one was ever going to be tried for rape in this instance (because, again, she wasn’t pointing the finger at any real person). In the Duke LaCrosse case, actual people were put on trial, and lives were put on hold…

That’s ok, I just think it is misplaced. This is a story about a deceptive journalist and a slandered institution. That the “victim” might have had some other trauma looks like a distraction. It sounds like a redirect to “that poor woman.” There are thousands of legitimate stories of abuse, I don’t see why it…

“(not saying the woman wasn’t assaulted in some way, but her story was clearly false).”

You are right, this is going to make it much harder to publish outlandish, preposterous stories without fact checking based on anonymous sources about make-believe rape rituals at college fraternities! Won’t someone think of the outlandish, preposterous stories without fact checking based on anonymous sources about…