It is striking how rare integrity, defined as one's actions reflecting one's beliefs, is.

Like, just Aaron Bushnell.

We are so used to all of these people being reprehensible hypocrites and smarmy liars that when somebody that is pure of heart and mind like Aaron does what he did it really stands in stark contrast to all that and reveals how deeply deeply evil it all is. He was a hero that we should all be grateful for.

And if Biden had been wounded, you know Trump's supporters would be gloating.

Why future hypotheticals? You only have to look at the reactions to Gabby Giffords and Paul Pelosi. Also Paul Gosar's murder cartoon of AOC. Reactions and fantasies perfectly in line with their long time rhetoric.

Doesn't matter how peaceful and humanitarian their opponents are, they'll always label them "the violent left" because someone cracked a Starbucks window somewhere.

And now we'll have to see the motivation because the shooter was identified as a 20 year old registered republican, wearing the shirt of a radical militia group.

The proper reaction should be changing laws so that nobody should be allowed to own rapid fire rifles, let alone unhinged kids not old enough to drink.

yes somehow Democrats will amend the constitution to do something that is extremely unpopular when they won't even use their majorities to pass popular legislation that makes their own self-preservation possible

also Paul Pelsoi's victim defending himself and successfully escaping with his life when he was seconds away from being Ed Buck'd is a positive story not a negative one

lots of those large truckbed-mounted flagpoles - with the BIG flags - in town today.

i keep my trips to the stores short.

OK KG

Bob Roberts

Hmmm, maybe it was all staged so he can now play the Supreme Victim card? (Paraphrasing a typical QAnon line of thought)

I'm not so sure. Trump is pretty much maxed out in terms of support. This might mobilize his base somewhat, but I doubt anyone who hated Trump before will suddenly vote for him. Now combine that with the Left freaking out that this could hand Trump the win and I think it will mobilize Democrats and left-leaning Independents just as much. And the fact the shooter is a registered Republican will neuter any talk of "THE SAVAGE LEFT" or similar bullshit.

The obvious truth will neuter any riled up talk that it was a leftist plot?

These people were calling January 6 a peaceful tourist group and the rioters were all secret FBI and ANTIFA plants.

I was talking about it yesterday and said that all these good people dying on the same day and trump dodging a bullet is proof he must have sold his soul to the devil

Shannen Doherty? Good?

Not on that day I was talking about it

Gun control was always applied unevenly. Like how Reagan used it against the Black Panthers.

Like how the NRA is always silent when a black gun owner gets victimized or killed by police

It's like when Bush Jr. had the shoe thrown at him, but forty times worse.

No, he really got shot at. Other people were hit. One of them died.

Trump was more likely struck by shattered glass than a bullet.

HOWEVER:

FOX News is already laying the groundwork for a "The Secret Service knew it was going to happen and let it happen." conspiracy.

So there's that.

If Trump wins, I'm sure he'll insist on having the taxpayers pay for private security from Academi or whatever Blackwater is calling itself these days.

yeah you can get a good scope for like $150 and if he actually watched that guntuber channel that he bought the t-shirt from he could learn how to zero it pretty easily, kids today do everything half assed

The same reason any young kid picks up a gun and goes on a rampage these days: infamy, and a dire need for attention he wasn't getting. He found himself drifting through young adulthood without any ambition or goals, and he decided that a solution to his problem was to go down in history as the guy who shot a Presidential front runner. If you want to be an influencer these days, it's the worst possible way to have CNN repeating your name throughout its 24 hour news cycle.

He doesn't have a dead video site to devout way too much energy to being a shit.

Kids these days amiright?

Figuratively, however...

Enthusiastically too

But he literally knows nothing about that.

Hitler did kill a a lot of people, more than Trump, certainly, but I believe that a significant plurality of Historians believe that, before Hitler killed all of those people, there was a period when he hadn;t dome that yet.

In a theoretical trump term I predict he will enable and support Israel killing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians (if not millions) and he will start a war with Iran which will lead to even more death and carnage

And that’s just the predictable stupid shit he will do

Sol: I will accept that there are legitimate reasons to prefer Biden to Trump. But, my brother, Biden is currently doing exactly the things you mention.

Oh yeah? Well Biden will mix up a few more names!

wait do you folks not acknowledge that Biden (or whoever is running his administration) actually has killed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and has done about everything possible to start a war with Russia? or are we pretending that Biden's problems are just his advanced dementia