Whichever side of whatever fence you're on, it's universally a bad thing when politicians, political activists and political representatives get assassinated.
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> the person beside you in the supermarket etc can carry a lethal weapon that can end your life.
On a population-weighted basis, this is not everyday life in America.
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> I get the good guy vs bad guy with a gun argument…
Trump was shot surrounded by (in theory) some of the best-trained armed guards on the planet. Uvalde saw several hundred "good guys with a shitload of guns" mill around for over an hour while schoolchildren got massacred by a single shooter.
I can't say I get it.
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Most of us don't understand it either. The majority of citizens support some degree of gun control reform and yet congress refuses to act. And even if they did, it seems like the supreme court has decided to interpret the 2nd amendment in such an obtuse manner that any reform at all would likely be unconstitutional.
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#27As of 3:39PM ET, CNN is reporting shot and Wikipedia has already a death date.
I'm not seeing that death date. And history shows that even traditional news outlets can be badly wrong in the immediate aftermath of a shooting. James Brady didn't die in 1981 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brady#Shooting - even with "all major media outlets" (per Wikipedia) saying that he did.
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#30Prayers for Charlie and his family, violence against people you disagree with is never the answer
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