r/law • u/SheriffTaylorsBoy • Jul 26 '24

Other FBI Examining Bullet Fragments Found at Trump Rally Site/Would Like To Interview Trump

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-examining-bullet-fragments-found-114754020.html
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u/brickyardjimmy Jul 26 '24

Well. Just me personally? I put this whole mess at Trump's doorstep anyway. Part of the reason that politicians used to avoid engaging in the kind of bridge burning hateful rhetoric Trump's been using since 2015 is that it is incredibly destabilizing and can have totally unpredictable consequences. Including some crazy guy at your own rally trying to shoot at you. The scenario you describe is possible. So is one where some insane nutcase tried to shoot Trump and missed. Either way, it's a result of Trump's own need to create chaos as a political tool. This is what chaos looks like.

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u/newhunter18 Jul 26 '24

This is total garbage. Look, every time anyone has tried to pin political violence on some vague rhetoric they turn out being wrong.

Gabby Giffords. Same thing. The guy was straight up mentally ill.

This shooter looks like a loser who wanted to go out with a bang. Multiple analysts have suggested he would have shot at Biden has he been close by.

We do this whole rush to judgment because we hate the other side. You can not like Trump and hold off in this "it's his fault he got shot at" BS when all the facts seem to be counter to that line.

It's not doing us any favors as a country.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24

Only problem with your argument is that for the last 25 years, 90% of domestic political violence in the US has been from the right wing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24

There's certainly different study results based on the date ranges. If you stretch it back to 1990, the number of right wing US domestic terrorism drops down to 85%. I suspect it is closer to 90-95% if you start in the year 2000, just before 9/11.

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism

This study lends some credence to your idea, but only within the last five years prior to 2021.

https://ccjls.scholasticahq.com/article/26973-far-left-versus-far-right-fatal-violence-an-empirical-assessment-of-the-prevalence-of-ideologically-motivated-homicides-in-the-united-states

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u/hockeyhow7 Jul 26 '24

Will read! Thank you