Santa Claus kills a bunch of people and burns house

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The operative words in the above post are "I see". Humor is such a subjective thing, no one can really make a blanket declaration of whether or not something is funny, it's always subject to individual taste. Making jokes about something like this may be in poor taste, but that doesn't mean that the situation itself isn't funny in any way. I, for example, don't think that Will Ferrel is at all funny, others would disagree with me, but I don't think that finding Will Ferrel funny means that there is anything wrong with somebody, just that they have a different concept of what's funny. I (obviously) have a very dark sense of humor, as do many other people, and I don't think that there is anything wrong with that.

Finding humor in the death and suffering of others is sadistic behavior.

What makes this so un-funny is the carnage, gore and death. Without these horrible elements, it might have been a funny story. Murder & mayhem are just not funny. Anyone who gets a chuckle from stories like this is despicable.

Dox, I doubt the families of Santa's victims have much to chortle about. They have to bury their loved ones.

Ha ha?

Not really.

I'm starting feel like I'm banging my head into a brick wall here, but I'm stubborn, so I'll try again. I'm not laughing at suffering, death, or anything else like that; I'm laughing at a criminal with an over-developed sense of the dramatic that leads to his own demise. No one, and I mean no one, gets to dictate what is and isn't funny to anyone else, even if they have a personal tragedy. Notice that I haven't even made any jokes or anything about this incident, merely pointed out the absurdity of the premise. That is because I have respect for other people's feelings, and wouldn't want to cause anyone further pain by mocking their loss. That respect however, stops well short of self censorship when it comes to pointing out the inherent humor of a bizarre situation, regardless of how tragic it is. My family is Jewish and I joke about the Holocaust, I lost my father less than a year ago and I joke about that, it's just how I am and I won't be ashamed of it, certainly not by people on an AS board that should know better.

I believe that your premise is false; that he had overly-developed sense of the dramatic. For several years, a neighbor, who was out of town this year, had played Santa at their yearly parties. Pardo would have known this. I can only visualize a little girl standing by a living room picture window, excitedly seeing an expected Santa coming up the front walk, and running to answer the door when she hears Santa knock. She will never recover from a semi-automatic gun blast point-blank to her face from Santa.

There was a reason why network TV didn't even have comedy shows on after a certain tragedy here in the US. It's shocking, and it takes time to incorporate the event into reality. It truly is disrespectful, and you can make up any excuse you like. Being AS does not give you the right to walk over other people's feelings. As has been pointed out, someone here knew this family. That alone should be enough to stop you from your hurtful behavior. Your timing is horrible and insensitive. At this time, it is not a subject for humor (and the Holocaust will never be).

People doing stuff like this and others finding it funny are why I dislike and distrust most of humanity. It's terrible for the family and friends of those people.

It's easy to laugh at death when it's no one you know.