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Thoughts and prayers

And Trump will never denounce it.

I also don’t think this is the moment for that lecture.

The MAGA Party will again go to its usual playbook: mental illness, LGBTQ+, "hopes and prayers" BS, blame Democrats.

It’s very frustrating to pretend like this violence just randomly happened without adding context of how it became normalized. The media just glossed over the Minnesota murders of representatives…

Wait. Didn't the Biden-Harris administration already release all the Epstein files? And if not, why not?

How you gonna stop the erosion?

#ItsTheGunsStupid

It is incredibly simple and it's also entirely wrong. To believe something like that, you have to redefine every violent act that you think is okay out of the word "violence". And if you're doing that, then you aren't saying much of anything are you.

Also simple, thoughts and prayers

It’s also incredibly simple to acknowledge that sometimes violence must be met with violence

Hate begets violence.

Pigs will fly before you hear that sentiment from the current President of the United States.

That's bullshit though. It didn't "erode" society to shoot Nazis in WWII, it saved it. Obviously we should not want even more violence from the right & tactically that may mean discouraging violence against the right. But it is not "awful" for a white supremacist to die - it is good.

From the responses I'm seeing, it is no longer a simple thing for many of us

Its also incredibly simple to point out that when you advocate violence this is a likely result. FAFO

Unfortunately with modern media/social media being controlled by a select few, violence will become more common. Ghandi wouldn’t have an impact today. He would be blocked by the algos, controlled news wouldn’t talk about him and so on. When the means to protest are removed, violence follows.

Fight fire with fire, and you fight words with words. Kirk is a man of words, and thus the response should be more clever and compassionate words.

It’s also incredibly simple to say what party and what people in that party make this possible. If one is too cowardly to say both on a day like this than say nothing. Here’s what happened in my community today.

Tots and pears. Wrong time to politicize. Etc

There is a school shooting that just happened in Colorado. I’m sure they were sending their thoughts and prayers to Charlie at the time the shots rang out. Our society has long been eroded!

Now guns and another high school (Denver) shooting When will 🇺🇸 get it Guns

GOP only does it when one of their own is targeted. Democratic Party Leadership clearly opposes ALL violence.

Fascism has already done that