You are making Steve responsible for your own emotional reaction, which isn't cool. You're effectively arguing that satire, frustration or sarcasm are inappropriate responses to the discussion of tragedy or politically-charged events, which is a great way to ensure that nobody engages you in discussion. Your entire response is couched in "I think that" and "I feel like" without acknowledging that your interpretation of Steve's response is one of many possible justifications. In other words, it's clear that this is a fight you want to have and Steve is just the unfortunate bystander whose time has come up.
this is the part where i eat shit for a couple responses then i apologize, so i'm just going to skip right to the end and delete both comments steve: sorry about the antagonism. there's no point in it.
we're tripping over ourselves to apologize. No sweat Q. It's a tough and nuanced issue. It's still fresh and I think that we're all pretty sensitive right now. I could/should have been more sensitive (or at least more thoughtful) in my original post. PEACE. I mean it.