    Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, ...
    If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Yes, this is important, yes, it's newsworthy. No, it's not "Hacker News". It's all over the news, and there's nothing specific about hacking, or start-ups. It's not even of "deep interest" in any real sense. It's tragedy, pure and simple, and then it becomes politics.

>>ColinW+e1
your quote just negated your argument. Read it carefully, it says: "MOST stories about..." Most is the important word here.

This shooting is unprecedented in the US as far as the number of children killed, and will mark a point in history. Considering I don't even watch the news or go to any news web sites, if I hadn't heard about it on HN, I probably wouldn't have even known about it to be honest.

>>sixQua+Q1
This shooting is unprecedented in the US as far as the number of children killed...

For a shooting, yes. But the 1995 Oklahoma bombing included 19 young children among the 168 killed, including all 17 children in a daycare in the building.

This level of death is, sadly, not unprecedented. And I guarantee you that in 20 years it will be even less remembered by the general public than Timothy McVeigh is.

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