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snowywolfowlFirst off my condolences to the victims and best wishes for their recovery. While its true I'd never consider voting for a single one of them and actively resist their politics coming to Canada noone, NOONE, deserves to be shot. Liberal democracy and Western civilization hold that we use ballots and not bullets. Regardless of politics and party affliations thats how it is and how it has to stay. Period.
Secondly, I'm glad the police stopped the man and while I don't wish anyone to be killed in the long run I am perfectly fine with mass shooters being immediately terminated with lethal force. If you're armed and shooting people to death then you can immediately surrender to the police or be killed by them.
Third the political temperature in the US has got to come down a bit and quickly. And the party that needs to act on this is...the Republicans. Now hear me out because I'm not looking to blame victims here. As I said in the first paragraph they did not deserve to be shot by a domestic terrorist from the left side of the spectrum. That being said the last decade especially has seen a lot of angry and hateful right wing rhetoric from many different sources, some of which are from groups that espouse or support very frightening views. With Donald Trump taking power those groups feel empowered to say and in some cases do things that threaten people and threatened people eventually lash back.
Again please note I am NOT blaming Republicans or saying this is a false flag operation or any other sort of Alex Jones type idiocy. What I am saying is that when you make people afraid by empowering the hateful on your side you also fuel the lunatics and extremists on the other side. While its never to be condoned its not really that unexpected. Lets just hope the Republicans can do enough to bring balance back before more people, on both sides of the aisle, decide to be inspired by this brutality.
And finally, maybe, just maybe the US can finally get some simple, common sense steps for gun control in the states. You don't need handguns and assault rifles everywhere. Background checks should be mandatory and if you have convictions for violence you shouldn't have a gun. The members of the Republican party have never struck me as particularly caring about the suffering the constant gun violence causes its citizens but maybe now that they've experienced such a horrible event there might be some empathy here?
Secondly, I'm glad the police stopped the man and while I don't wish anyone to be killed in the long run I am perfectly fine with mass shooters being immediately terminated with lethal force. If you're armed and shooting people to death then you can immediately surrender to the police or be killed by them.
Third the political temperature in the US has got to come down a bit and quickly. And the party that needs to act on this is...the Republicans. Now hear me out because I'm not looking to blame victims here. As I said in the first paragraph they did not deserve to be shot by a domestic terrorist from the left side of the spectrum. That being said the last decade especially has seen a lot of angry and hateful right wing rhetoric from many different sources, some of which are from groups that espouse or support very frightening views. With Donald Trump taking power those groups feel empowered to say and in some cases do things that threaten people and threatened people eventually lash back.
Again please note I am NOT blaming Republicans or saying this is a false flag operation or any other sort of Alex Jones type idiocy. What I am saying is that when you make people afraid by empowering the hateful on your side you also fuel the lunatics and extremists on the other side. While its never to be condoned its not really that unexpected. Lets just hope the Republicans can do enough to bring balance back before more people, on both sides of the aisle, decide to be inspired by this brutality.
And finally, maybe, just maybe the US can finally get some simple, common sense steps for gun control in the states. You don't need handguns and assault rifles everywhere. Background checks should be mandatory and if you have convictions for violence you shouldn't have a gun. The members of the Republican party have never struck me as particularly caring about the suffering the constant gun violence causes its citizens but maybe now that they've experienced such a horrible event there might be some empathy here?
