06-15-2017, 12:50 AM
Big news event - a 66 yo white guy shot 5 at a GOP baseball practice in Virginia. He was armed with a semi-automatic rifle.
The GOP House Whip is in critical condition.
Thankfully, the shooter wasn't a Muslim. That wasn't the case, but the shooter was a rabid Bernie Sanders supporter who hated not only Trump and the GOP but also Hillary Clinton.
One of Trump's sons tweeted that the blame lay with Kathy Griffen and a NY theatre rendition of Julius Caesar in which Trump is used In the title role. He was immediately attacked for trying to politicise an attack against GOP representatives rather than Trump.
Trump will be met with accusations of hypocrisy if he complains that anti-Trump rhetoric might cause nutters to attempt political assassinations. When he was invited to speak at an NRA rally during the campaign, he warned that Clinton would appoint Supreme Court Judges who would take away their guns. He told them that if she won the election, no one could stop her. He then went on and snidely suggested that maybe "2nd-amendment people could stop her". He was condemned for floating what appeared to be assassination as a remedy.
There is also the case of the shooter who stormed a Pizza parlour armed with an assault rifle after he swallowed the fake news from far right online media that a paedophile ring linked to Clinton held abused kids in its basement. He fired a shot in the crowded pizza shop and demanded to see the basement. He then discovered there was no basement at all. He's being sentenced shortly and the prosecution is seeking a 45 year sentence.
Then there was the case of Gabby Giffords, a Democrat congresswoman who was shot in the head at a public event after the GOP ran ads which put a target on her. The GOP denied that those ads had anything to do with the assassination attempt.
Remember also that a British Labour MP and advocate of Britain remaining in the EU was assassinated during the Brexit campaign.
No doubt any attack on politicians should be roundly condemned by all. As should be any attempt to politicise those attacks. I hope Trump won't repeat his son's mistake.
The GOP House Whip is in critical condition.
Thankfully, the shooter wasn't a Muslim. That wasn't the case, but the shooter was a rabid Bernie Sanders supporter who hated not only Trump and the GOP but also Hillary Clinton.
One of Trump's sons tweeted that the blame lay with Kathy Griffen and a NY theatre rendition of Julius Caesar in which Trump is used In the title role. He was immediately attacked for trying to politicise an attack against GOP representatives rather than Trump.
Trump will be met with accusations of hypocrisy if he complains that anti-Trump rhetoric might cause nutters to attempt political assassinations. When he was invited to speak at an NRA rally during the campaign, he warned that Clinton would appoint Supreme Court Judges who would take away their guns. He told them that if she won the election, no one could stop her. He then went on and snidely suggested that maybe "2nd-amendment people could stop her". He was condemned for floating what appeared to be assassination as a remedy.
There is also the case of the shooter who stormed a Pizza parlour armed with an assault rifle after he swallowed the fake news from far right online media that a paedophile ring linked to Clinton held abused kids in its basement. He fired a shot in the crowded pizza shop and demanded to see the basement. He then discovered there was no basement at all. He's being sentenced shortly and the prosecution is seeking a 45 year sentence.
Then there was the case of Gabby Giffords, a Democrat congresswoman who was shot in the head at a public event after the GOP ran ads which put a target on her. The GOP denied that those ads had anything to do with the assassination attempt.
Remember also that a British Labour MP and advocate of Britain remaining in the EU was assassinated during the Brexit campaign.
No doubt any attack on politicians should be roundly condemned by all. As should be any attempt to politicise those attacks. I hope Trump won't repeat his son's mistake.