Charlie Kirk shot at Utah Valley University

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The political violence in our country in just the past couple years is staggering! Trump assassination attempt, United healthcare, Minnesota, now Utah. I don’t think it’s about either party, really, but indicative of disgust with a political system that appears to mostly favor billionaires and does not respond to the needs of most people. People feel powerless and that they have nothing to lose. It is like the 1960’s again but the outcome is still unclear.

You forgot January 6th.

[Anonymous]

They found the gun

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the tremendous amount of comments and outrage for Kirk vs Sandy Hook is more about the shock of actually seeing the murder on film, replayed over and over - It is shocking. If the murders of innocent children and the aftermath was shown, the impact would be overwhelming and maybe then, gun laws would the change.

I actually think this is it. I do actually believe that if we saw the actual bodies or the actual act at sandy hook, uvalde, etc that we would be compelled to act. I have to have that faith in humanity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The political violence in our country in just the past couple years is staggering! Trump assassination attempt, United healthcare, Minnesota, now Utah. I don’t think it’s about either party, really, but indicative of disgust with a political system that appears to mostly favor billionaires and does not respond to the needs of most people. People feel powerless and that they have nothing to lose. It is like the 1960’s again but the outcome is still unclear.

There have been quite a few politically motivated attacks in the last decade.

Here’s a partial list of attacks since 2020:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-growing-list-of-political-violence-in-the-u-s

It omits the shootings that left federal Judge Esther Salas’s son dead and husband critically injured and the bombs planted at the DNC Headquarters on J6.

There was also a right winger who parked a truck of explosives by the Capitol on J6

Cite? I have never heard of this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the Weimar Republic

+1 I fear the direction this is headed down

Can you history buffs provide us with a little more context?

Hitler used a false flag exercise to garner sympathy and justify stormtroopers taking control of Germany. History is truly repeating itself. but instead of "jews" the bogeyman is immigrants, liberals etc...pretty much anyone not a straight, white christian male.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They found the gun

Killer of Charlie Kirk 'appears to be of college age,' police say, and 'blended in' with college population. - AP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Charlie wasn’t a public official.

Charlie wasn’t a candidate for public office.

Charlie wasn’t a corporate executive, supposedly personally “responsible” for any negative effects of corporate policies.

Charlie wasn’t a foreign diplomat or staff to whom blame for that foreign nation’s policies could be ascribed.

No, Charlie was an advocate for his faith and his political beliefs, as well as for open and cordial debate about both. This was a political assassination at its most basic core - not because someone was angry about a policy that Charlie had enacted, or that he was currently facilitating, or that he might in the future implement - but rather for no other reason than the public expression of his ideas. He was shot because of his discussions about his beliefs and for no other reason; and that should be a wake up call for all of us, right and left.

This will not end well.

He had a large influence on a lot of people, and was said to give advice to Trump. Anyone with that kind of influence can be a target.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The political violence in our country in just the past couple years is staggering! Trump assassination attempt, United healthcare, Minnesota, now Utah. I don’t think it’s about either party, really, but indicative of disgust with a political system that appears to mostly favor billionaires and does not respond to the needs of most people. People feel powerless and that they have nothing to lose. It is like the 1960’s again but the outcome is still unclear.

There have been quite a few politically motivated attacks in the last decade.

Here’s a partial list of attacks since 2020:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-growing-list-of-political-violence-in-the-u-s

It omits the shootings that left federal Judge Esther Salas’s son dead and husband critically injured and the bombs planted at the DNC Headquarters on J6.

There was also a right winger who parked a truck of explosives by the Capitol on J6

Cite? I have never heard of this.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/alabama-man-sentenced-46-months-prison-firearms-offenses-district-columbia-and-alabama

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They found the gun

Killer of Charlie Kirk 'appears to be of college age,' police say, and 'blended in' with college population. - AP

This sounds unlikely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The political violence in our country in just the past couple years is staggering! Trump assassination attempt, United healthcare, Minnesota, now Utah. I don’t think it’s about either party, really, but indicative of disgust with a political system that appears to mostly favor billionaires and does not respond to the needs of most people. People feel powerless and that they have nothing to lose. It is like the 1960’s again but the outcome is still unclear.

There have been quite a few politically motivated attacks in the last decade.

Here’s a partial list of attacks since 2020:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-growing-list-of-political-violence-in-the-u-s

It omits the shootings that left federal Judge Esther Salas’s son dead and husband critically injured and the bombs planted at the DNC Headquarters on J6.

There was also a right winger who parked a truck of explosives by the Capitol on J6

Cite? I have never heard of this.

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-crime-prisons-alabama-presidential-elections-0f96785c9cbf3b98281f0a5522e99bdd

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The political violence in our country in just the past couple years is staggering! Trump assassination attempt, United healthcare, Minnesota, now Utah. I don’t think it’s about either party, really, but indicative of disgust with a political system that appears to mostly favor billionaires and does not respond to the needs of most people. People feel powerless and that they have nothing to lose. It is like the 1960’s again but the outcome is still unclear.

There have been quite a few politically motivated attacks in the last decade.

Here’s a partial list of attacks since 2020:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-growing-list-of-political-violence-in-the-u-s

It omits the shootings that left federal Judge Esther Salas’s son dead and husband critically injured and the bombs planted at the DNC Headquarters on J6.

There was also a right winger who parked a truck of explosives by the Capitol on J6

Cite? I have never heard of this.

https://www.courthousenews.com/prison-for-army-vet-who-brought-guns-molotov-cocktails-to-dc-on-jan-6/

Trying to find out if he was included in Trump’s pardons.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If no suspect was caught by now it seems this was a professional hit. I wonder if they will ever be caught.

That would be convenient for those pushing a narrative about what type of person is responsible, e.g. Trump and every right wing pundit.

This rhetoric is stoking political violence. People might ask themselves why it’s always the conservative right who does this. What do they gain from having you hate Democrats?

[Anonymous]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lykullxa2f2u

before we even know the identity of Charlie Kirk's shooter, Joni Ernst blames "the left" for "silencing voices through violence"


I love the way MAGA is jumping to these conclusions with ZERO proof or knowledge of who the shooter was/is and what their motivation is.

So yes, let's just blame the left and get every "second amendment friend" riled up for retribution.

(and then we will find out if was some mentally ill white guy with a gun who was mad at Kirk for dropping Epstein from the rotation of outrage, or something similar)

[Anonymous]

I am old enough to remember a white supremecists gunning down black parishioners in a church and a black president advising the country to hold their outrage until the shooter had their day in court.

Why does the right have no similar grace?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am old enough to remember a white supremecists gunning down black parishioners in a church and a black president advising the country to hold their outrage until the shooter had their day in court.

Why does the right have no similar grace?

+1