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Monkey David's avatar

I really don’t like the “violence is not the answer” framing, because it takes as a given that the question—“how to get rid of Trump?”—was the same for the shooter and Democrats.

That just has been shown to be true at all. If this was politically motivated, it wasn’t from the left, but it seems to be clearly someone with mental issues who never should have had an AR-15 (much less access to that roof).

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Jennifer's avatar

Yeah, it heavily implies "both sides" which isn't at all accurate.

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Monkey David's avatar

And it takes as a given that the shooter wanted the same things we do. But I don’t want Trump dead. I want him shamed, imprisoned, and very far from the Oval Office.

The shooter’s motives were likely the same as a school shooter—a twisted mind searching for attention and relevance.

Can you imaging saying “violence is not the answer” after a school shooting?

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Douglas Peterson's avatar

It's so easy to leap-frog over the reality of mental illness, and the reality of a mentally ill young man with an AR 15 as the proximate cause of shooting at a politician.

If it's a politician, it *must* have a political cause, right? /s

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