Ed Burmila: This is from the Facebook page of the bystander killed in the shooting on Saturday, for the "Lower the temperature" crowd to ponder.

This is from the Facebook page of the bystander killed in the shooting on Saturday, for the "Lower the temperature" crowd to ponder.

Maybe the lesson here is that the people who built a political movement out of the vigilante revenge fantasies of socially maladjusted and heavily armed people overestimated their own ability to control where, when, and at whom the violence they encourage would be directed.

i didn't think this stochastic would terrorize *me* etc

I kinda feel like there's just a lot of nihilistic lonely guys out there and while sometimes they fall into radical politics, sometimes they just like to shoot people in public.

People will look very hard to find coherent politics but this strikes me as a Las Vegas shooter situation, where ultimately you're just gonna find a violent dipshit who flipped a coin and decided to try this rather than shooting up a mall or school.

If a rando got this close to killing the former President, what's that say about the US Secret Service protection? This guy was no John Malkovich.

That they're just as sick of thinking about Trump as the rest of us?

He does seem like the kind of person whose security detail would winnow itself down to sycophants in a hurry, to the detriment of actual security.

😂😂😂

Line of sight from 133y from the stage? That was crazy, how do you not cover that, or block the line of sight, or something? That's a bit over standard (100y) range distance, a trivial shot.

apparently a local Candy Crusher, brought in by the USS, ran away from the barely-out-of-his-teens dude with the scary gun the thinnest blue line

To be fair, why risk taking a bullet for Trump?

Evergreen motive: He felt like killing a bunch of people and he had a gun so he did

Hope lots of their fans show up at the RNC

Well said.

But no one told us that the Torment Nexus would create an actual nexus of torment! I mean, what are the odds?

It's like that novel Frankenstein where that doctor makes a monster he doesn't truly understand and then nothing bad happens ever

Nonsense. This must have been a far-left Deep State globalist super assassin who was only deterred by Divine Intervention.

I feel my rhetoric about Trump being bad has radicalized lonely 20 year old Republican gun kids somehow

“Be careful what you wish for” is an old tale for a reason

That’s been the rightwing GOTV strategy for as long as I can remember. Certainly since the rise of the NRA & their 2A absolutism.

A...lesson...?

It's just like how the GOP who tried to grab power by courting racists and conspiracy theory nuts overestimated their own ability to control those people and now those people own the party.

Do we even know that the shooter’s motive was political? Hinckley’s wasn’t

If having a completely inappropriate crush on Jodie Foster isn't political I don't know what is.

🤣

@miq.moe

What’s the background text say? It runs into black and I cannot read it.

I'm not sure. The bot just takes the User's avi and makes it into the background.

Burmila's avi is a bookcover, it looks like. "Chaotic Neutral, how the democrats lost their soul in the center." "Chaotic" and "Neutral" are reflected outwards a few times.

Yeah, all these fucking op eds where I’m supposed to feel bad for the “innocent bystanders”? If you get run over by Hitler’s car on the way out of the Nazi rally, I don’t actually give a shit.

They are saving the world through their self-assumed obligation to be charitable no matter what to bad faith actors that would happily subjugate them.

They drive around in public like this. I mean...

Anybody can nut-pick but only one side has routine winks and nods in favor of political violence coming from its elected at a Congressional or gubernatorial level and I want the press to fucking acknowledge that

Unfortunately, at the exec level, most press are fully owned by Trump. They are the only reason Trump can still pretend he "won" in 2016.

wow i bet he wishes he'd been wrapped in armor plating right then, huh

Hey ohh!

1. I'm from Butler County. 2. I'm not gonna shed tears over someone willingly posing next to a 3%er flag. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Ah yes, the Three-Cent Nickel Gang.

When I first read the post from his daughter was "He brought kids to a Trump rally?" Even if you agreed with all of their bullshit, common sense would suggest it might not be the safest of places.

The guy was at a Trump rally. That says all I need to know about him.

sounds like he got exactly what he wished for and for that i’m so happy for him

oh that is some -prime- leopards eating faces material. I guess, people attending a Trump rally, odds are good they were gonna be violence-stanning dicks. Still.

Saw this from him too

the japanese didn't even get over it, have people even heard of grave of the fireflies and barefoot gen?

in this corner of the world, even? i know these aren't even that comparable but come on

Ed can u post this on FB so I can drop it on my irl lib friends

lived by the tread, died by the tread

I don't care if I sacrificially lower the temp, but I'm going to do it. Violence begets violence, unless you make a choice not to be violent, even under threat - perceived or otherwise.

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