RE: This dark, malevolent shadow...
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As for the lefties? Are they celebrating? Do they gloat about the "poetic justice" of a gun nut being shot dead?
I don't know. Militant, extreme, asshole lefties maybe. I think most 'left' people I know see the senselessness of it. Most people I know agree that no matter the political standpoint, no one deserves to die. Sure, we can wish them out of existance, but that's not the answer, and makes us as 'bad' as the person we say is 'evil', right?
I couldn't agree more with this post, which is the first thing I thought when I read the news this morning. I didn't know who he was - to be honest, I'm completely tuned out of politics right now as I am too preoccupied with other things, and was feeling too much despair.
All acts like this do is divide people further. You'd have to be a fucking idiot to think that silencing one person will silence everyone who holds views you disagree with.
Madness.
Certainly, most lefties are good, sensible people. Still, they risk being swayed by this kind of rhetoric. Maybe not on something as extreme as a killing, but on policies, restrictions, etc, why not? And it's the same logic at heart.
Terrifying stuff. I'd heard of him, but wasn't a follower or anything. Just someone observing the news. The video of the shooting itself was one of the first things I saw. How anyone could report on this as anything other than a tragic, unfathomable murder is beyond me after seeing that.