(06-15-2017, 08:07 AM)Kotite Wrote: "If she (Hillary) gets to pick her judges.. Nothing you can do folks.. Although the 2nd Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know.." - DJT

Just another example of the rhetoric that is totally excused because the right never thought they would be the target.

Not justifying violence or condoning this sad act. Just pointing out that words matter. And not a one of you on this board condemned this statement or countless others like it. Trump can promptly speak out on violence when his own people are the target, but has been silent or severely tardy on several other acts of violence perpetrated by people who are aligned to his base. It's farcical.

Did his rhetoric spur someone to go on a shooting spree targeting democrats? 

The heated rhetoric comes from both sides, but the reality here is that the overwhelming majority of those people who actually act out on it tend to lean left.  And the rhetoric they're feeding off of is all over the place.  Trump pulls out of the Paris accord, and you've got liberal icons scrambling to find cameras to talk about how people are going to die.  You've got prominent democrats giving speeches where they're talking about telling the president to do things that are anatomically impossible.  You've got prominent leftist celebrities talking about blowing up the White House, or simulating an assassination of the president in their rap videos.  You just don't see the level of vitriol coming from the right, but hey, keep digging for more examples where someone said something bad, but then show us how that triggered anything beyond words.

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