I think they did this to create a megathread for it. I dont think they have a function to move all comments from one post to another though.

Also, given how left leaning Reddit is nowadays (or maybe more accurately, how much Redditors hate Trump specifically), I would imagine there were probably a lot of comments that violated the rule about "don't wish death or harm on anyone else," which is honestly a rule that all humans should have the basic decency of applying to everything.

I'm sure the reasoning for it was "glorifying violence." I got a permanent site wide ban (that was overturned after appealing) for about 2 weeks for just saying "I so would" in response to a picture of a girl in a shirt that said "punch a Nazi in the face." The post itself wasn't removed, BTW; just a lot of the comments that agreed with it. That, along with the appocalypse, are why I stopped using Reddit. Can't view it the way I want, and it's full of Nazis/Nazi sympathizers in the admin staff. Fuck that site.

There is no place for facts in a politics sub on Reddit:-P

Reddit bias is real. There is no way the Trump shooting isn't the biggest story on the internet at this moment and reddit is pretending that it isn't trending!

Reddit is 100% Biased!!!

Oh, yay, they're wagging the dog.

i never seen that news before