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I think it would have been funny in an ironic way if he was shot from behind the barrier. Just something to really prove his point.
And that some can afford protection and made it impossible for others is also a fact of life
This is what it feels like when dealing with banks and utilities of a loved one when they pass away.
i wonder if it's possible to know where the stage would be set up in advance. i wonder if you could plant explosives that can evade detection.
3 assassination attempts. In what 3 months? And they're all from Republicans.
The most recent "assassination attempt" was just drummed up by the media. I haven't seen any evidence it was anything other than a man with some guns in his car who happened to be near the rally.
And when it comes to America, a man with guns in his car is a normal situation.
God I hate this place.
A couple of media places did release a very short blurb in small print that the "suspect" had no plans to assassinate anyone according to law enforcement after a short investigation.
Honestly, I’d be surprised if the venn diagram of “people who would keep guns in their car” and “trump’s base” wasn’t a circle.
There’s going to be a lot of false positives in an environment like that
Why can't leftists have some guns?
They do, I have a few myself. I just don't feel the need to constantly have one on me.
We don't keep them in our cars, nor on our e-bikes.
A long rifle strapped to an e-bike is the kind of mental picture I needed in my day, thanks.
The Riverside county sheriff is the one who first used the term assassination attempt. Media uncritically repeated what the sheriff said.
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I was sitting there reading the articles thinking, "if a loaded weapon amongst Trump supporters is an assassination attempt we're going to need a spreadsheet here .."
It's a culture of violence
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A fact of life... when living in America. Third world country that doesn't tell its inhabitants.
Remember: If your country doesn't average at least one school shooting a week, you live in a shithole.
I hate living in this time that makes satire obsolete.
Can anyone please think of the makers of south park and how they are supposed to make fun of self owning clowns like this?
No worries, they'll find a way to both sides this
Satire is dead so they had to get into the restaurant business
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yeah it is crazy fact of life that schools get shot up so much more frequently than police stations and federal buildings.
almost like politicians and police are safer than school children in the system run by police and politicians.
Also that this "fact of life" almost entirely applies only to schools in the US. The world works in mysterious ways indeed. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
It blows my mind as a non-Amerian that their politicians are saying that the right to own a gun and carry it around is more important than children being able to go-to school without the fear of being killed. That's just the cost of 'freedum'.
do you seriously think the safety of the few outweighs the rights of the many? (we need more people with good aim to practice on political figureheads)
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It's time to deploy the-glass-is-necessary-because-its-really-a-hologram conspiracy.
what’s so frustrating is that this “they’re a fact of life” mentality is a self-fulfilling prophecy. and the longer it continues to used as a justification for inaction, the harder it becomes to convince people that gun violence is a solvable problem.
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Well yeah, duh, that's why he has the glass. /S
This, but without the /s. Completely non-sarcastic.
"That's why your parents' tax dollars should be paying for nice, safe, private religious schools!" /s
This actually makes all the sense. If he truly believes it then he’s rightly afraid. If he doesn’t believe then this sends the message to his supporters that they are right to be afraid. Either way it also tries to give him a “martyr in life” kinda vibe by trying to paint him as someone so dangerous to their little deep-state(that totally isn’t 100% conservatives if it’s anything at all) would want to get rid of.
He also has a very shootable personality and platform, and Trumping have been shot at definitely gives some reason why he’d be behind glass himself.
Benefit of the doubt interpretation though is a guy who can afford to have security and bullet-proof glass telling little children to “deal with it” is a fucking scumbag-extraordinaire.
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