Trump’s Wink Wink to ‘Second Amendment People’, NYT, 11/8/16.
To the analogy with Rabin's assassination, you can add the 3 murders committed by Robert Dear and the attempted assassination of Gabby Giffords. Robert Dear shot 3 people to death at a Planned Parenthood Centre in Colorado Springs. Afterwards, he told the police, "No more baby parts!". This appears to be a clear reference to a video of comments by the head of Planned Parenthood which were deceptively edited to suggest that "baby parts" we're being harvested for sale. Carly Fiorina, a Republican Presidential candidate, took this a step further, saying she had seen a video showing doctors hacking off the limbs of a foetus which was writhing on the operating table which was just a lie. This firestorm may well have inspired Dear to go from supergluing the locks of one centre to mass murder. Dear was found mentally incompetent but, as Lods has noted, crazies and extremists are a concern.
Gabby Giffords was shot by a man who didn't explain his motivations AFAIK but the shooting was preceded by an incendiary campaign against her amongst others which included a graphic of apparent crosshairs over electoral districts. One of those criticised in the wake of the shooting was Sarah Palin: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-pal...d=12576437. Of course, the response was that the guy was just a crazy and there was no blame to be had.
The NRA, the Sovereign Citizens Movement and various militias believe that an armed populace is essential to fight back, if necessary, against a tyrannical government. Suggesting that Hillary is going to take their guns invokes a scenario in which extremists may believe they have a moral right to kill to defend themselves.
Quote:People are playing with fire here, and there is no bigger flamethrower than Donald Trump. Forget politics; he is a disgusting human being. His children should be ashamed of him. I only pray that he is not simply defeated, but that he loses all 50 people of the states so that the message goes out across the land — unambiguously, loud and clear: The likes of you should never come this way again.
To the analogy with Rabin's assassination, you can add the 3 murders committed by Robert Dear and the attempted assassination of Gabby Giffords. Robert Dear shot 3 people to death at a Planned Parenthood Centre in Colorado Springs. Afterwards, he told the police, "No more baby parts!". This appears to be a clear reference to a video of comments by the head of Planned Parenthood which were deceptively edited to suggest that "baby parts" we're being harvested for sale. Carly Fiorina, a Republican Presidential candidate, took this a step further, saying she had seen a video showing doctors hacking off the limbs of a foetus which was writhing on the operating table which was just a lie. This firestorm may well have inspired Dear to go from supergluing the locks of one centre to mass murder. Dear was found mentally incompetent but, as Lods has noted, crazies and extremists are a concern.
Gabby Giffords was shot by a man who didn't explain his motivations AFAIK but the shooting was preceded by an incendiary campaign against her amongst others which included a graphic of apparent crosshairs over electoral districts. One of those criticised in the wake of the shooting was Sarah Palin: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-pal...d=12576437. Of course, the response was that the guy was just a crazy and there was no blame to be had.
The NRA, the Sovereign Citizens Movement and various militias believe that an armed populace is essential to fight back, if necessary, against a tyrannical government. Suggesting that Hillary is going to take their guns invokes a scenario in which extremists may believe they have a moral right to kill to defend themselves.