The daughter of the man that lost his life at the rally yesterday. Condolences to this family 💔 This is really sad no matter what you believe in 😞
user
The sad thing is that this dude was so entrenched in his toxic political beliefs that it cost him life in the end. It’s all kinds of fucked up.
assistant
Yeah it’s incredibly sad, but also it really shines a light on the absurdity of republican logic. “More guns keep us safe”….Of course they’re not happy this happened, neither are us leftists, but the truth is, that none of this could have happened if we had far stricter gun laws. If we had put in place a buy back program like Australia did. The republicans are gonna keep insisting on cutting back regulation on guns and this country will keep getting more and more unsafe
user
It is more than gun laws that could have prevented all this. Violent rhetoric from elected politicians and far right personalities in combination with the propaganda that this dude fell for is also one of the reasons why this happened. And all of its so embedded in the right wing ecosphere, the inevitable outcome would be something as horrible as this and it has happened before, just not to this level.
assistant
Honestly I don’t know much at all about the man who attempted to k*ll Trump, or his motives. I was focusing on the gun issue, but it’s true that there is so much about right wing rhetoric and policy that incites violence and encourages scapegoating and dehumanisation of “the other”, the other being anything falling outside straight white Christian men
user
I wasn’t specifically speaking about motives as we don’t know them yet but I meant as a whole all is the reason why shit like this continues to happen. They claim to be the party of law and order, the pro life party and they aren’t either of those.
assistant