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This would be true if the news was old. It is not.
Which means that the odds are, to bring up another tradgedy, you have to interrupt that person's current concern for the massacre closer to home. And interruption implies that the thing that's just been brought up is more important.
That was a bit mangled.
You know when a person you're talking to answers their phone in a middle of the conversation? It's like that. You wouldn't mind them talking to the person on the phone if they finished talking to you first. But if they start the new conversation in the middle of the one you're already having, they're giving the phone priority i.e. they think it's more important.
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When is a good time to bring it up?
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EDIT: Plus, the average American citizen doesn't have the power to end Middle Eastern war crimes. They can make a decent impact on local(ish) gun control laws, with a little encouragement. So there's another reason why local news is important news - the transmission of information is more likely to have an actual impact.
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How does the average American citizen make an impact on gun control law? By pushing for those with the political power to change the law.
It doesn’t have to be a problem that the average American citizen can make a decent impact on for it to be relevant or worth bringing up.
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It sooo does trivialize it. Look at that comic, and just try to keep the smarm from seeping into your brain. The faggot who made that comic knew exactly which tragedy the person was upset about, and led with "Oh, which one." Oh, fuck you. How about that? You want to say that there are other tragedies too? Say it like a person. Say it like a human being who isn't using a tragedy to prove how goddamn cool, and smart you are. He has tried so hard to be big minded, that he has narrowed himself to being just another smarmy hippy piece of shit.
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It’s a comic. It has to be punchy and memorable. That’s how they have to work.
Perhaps the comic is insensitive and smarmy. Does that invalidate its point?