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Finally a good guy with a gun
It’s all fun and games until Republicans use this as an excuse to further enforce their fascist agendas. Just glad this happened in Utah and not Illinois or California. Blue states will likely bear the brunt of the repercussions if there are any.
You mean like deploying troops in our cities?
Oh wait, they already did that.
Or, do you mean shipping people off the concentration camps?
Oh shit, that's already being done.
What you're upset about is that the fascism has stepped closer to YOU.
They do that anyway. Fuck 'em.
They were going to no matter what because no one is willing to stop them. Now there's one less.
Because of guns?
Were? They already are. Is there no one who remembers what happened in Minnesota a few months ago?
He ded?
He ded now
He ded.
Republicans are marching National Guard soldiers into the largest cities in America on exaggerated "crime fighting" excuses. They have established an unaccountable militia with ICE hiding their identities and violating the civil rights of American citizens on exaggerated or fabricated drug/violence reasons. They've needed no legitimate excuses to do these things, yet they are actively doing them. This changes nothing on that front.
Looking for afar, with an ocean between where I live and where this happened…
It’s not the government you have to be worried about. They are fascists, and they were going to escalate anyway. It’s the mesh of Nazi militias you have, which can decide to go openly ‘hunting’ progressives. Don’t expect Law enforcement to do anything about that (and iirc the groups who were watching those bastards have been dissolved).
You're proving my point. The Nazi militias already started this months ago before yesterday's kirk death: Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman killed, State Sen. John Hoffman wounded in 'targeted political violence'
Yeah, that’s right, but I was thinking more about actions conducting to massacres and mass murders. I really want to be wrong about this.
If they're going to do that, they'll do it anyway manufacturing their own pretext as the have already done with marching the military into cities that don't like trump and his fascist policies.
They already don't... The closest we can expect is cops protecting the roving bands of militias... Which they already do.
Lmao, I love that person's logic. "Don't do anything to piss of the fascists, they might do something fascist."
They'll make up whatever excuses they need either way so it doesn't really make a difference.
They're going to do fascism no matter what! They don't care about truth. They can just make shit up if they need to rile up their supporters.
It'll be interesting to see the contrast with the political response to this assassination compared to the Democratic Minnesota lawmaker that was assassinated a couple months ago
I get the distinct feeling conservatives won't be nearly as silent about this one
Except they haven't needed an excuse to date. I'm sick of this boogyman. Punch back, they haven't been pulling any punches.