Yeah, Kirk’s own political rhetoric was pretty extreme and violent.
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Not as violent or extreme as the groypers who killed him for not being violent and extreme enough tho...
Did I miss credible evidence coming out that he was a groyper?
Last I heard that theory had been retracted because it was based on a misidentification of the markings on the shell casings.
He basically killed himself
I mean yeah, there's no question that extremist rhetoric got him killed. and yeah I'd have to say it's far more of his own style of it. The part that baffles me is how it's only 60%, unless they somehow posed it as rhetoric against him. To me that question is as basic as saying "did gun violence have anything to do with his death?", uhh yeah.
I have feeling the question is vaguely worded so that they can then try and tear it to say "is it people saying he supports facism the reason for the violence". So that they can push to criminalize describing reality and pointing out real problems, because some people might try to solve problems with violence.
Reminder that 99% of terrorism this century has been right wing
The day people stop hearing right wing voices is the day most political violence ends.
he was killed by a conservative
Extreme in which direction?
Yeah, ask these people to define what they mean by "rhetoric" and I bet this common ground dissolves pretty quickly
Republicans blamed rhetoric by the widest margin, 73%-19%, but independents (53%-28%) and Democrats (54%-34%) were also much more likely to blame extreme political rhetoric as a factor than to discount it.
How about asking what they think about white wing terrorism
In same way that water is contributing to drowning.
Root causes, huh, like instilling a president that has had a history of actively rooting for his voterbase to "fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore". Among other violent rallying cries.
Say stupid shit, get popped.
Who?
Just another school shooting victim. No need to know his name.
Just another gang shooting at a school. Don't worry about it
I wasn't aware that guns responded to violent rhetoric! Perhaps they should be more carefully restricted if they just go off like that.