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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  From NYT (cw: gift link to live report with details of shooting):

  “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?” a person asks. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk responds right before he is shot.

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  • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yea, all that gang violence in all those schools, Chuck.

    What a perfect time for him to be shot. It’s poetry, truly.

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    • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s my personal belief with absolutely no evidence that the person asking the questions and the shooter were working together. Those questions and the timing of the shot are just too fucking perfect.

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      • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Life is stranger than fiction. Yes, the timing worked out, that doesn’t mean fuck all. This isn’t a movie, and sometimes timing can be unintentionally poetic. The shooter could hear them, too, and may have decided that was the moment they wished to fire the shot on their own accord. Those types of questions are asked all the time at these shitty debates, it’s not even remotely special and it’s even a topic that is one of the core things Kirk pushed pretty heavily.

        Everyone’s making up all kinds of conspiracies when the highly likely, nearly guaranteed, reality is that it was someone who came to the conclusion that the systems present in the US would not only do nothing to punish Kirk for his hate but in fact reward him for it. The same thing happened to a certain health insurance CEO for the same reason. They took the law into their own hands because the law does exist to serve victims, only oppressors.

        Yes, this means the violence all too present in the US has finally come to white conservatives. Deal with it.

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