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[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 187 points 3 months ago

People aren't seeing this for the real precursor it is. People are getting emboldened now. There will be more events like this.

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 105 points 3 months ago

I'm honestly worried about tonight. Saturday night, plenty of places where people gather, and a lot of extremists are just waiting for a moment for escalation that they can exploit.

Attempting to take the life of the party leader during an election is going to push some people over the edge.

I honestly give it a 50% chance that there's some sort of mass casualty event in the next 12 hours related to this. I fucking hope I'm wrong, or that the odds are somehow in our favor, but I've run out of optimism.

[-] Semicolon@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

I honestly give it a 50% chance that there’s some sort of mass casualty event in the next 12 hours related to this.

Given that there is more mass shootings in USA than days in a year, I think this ship has already sailed...

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There's a difference between a mass casualty event and the technical definition of a mass shooting. One is easily met by gangs doing a drive by. The other requires multiple emergency rooms, triaging people, and calling up neighboring counties for more resources.

I'll leave you to figure out which one is a loaded political term and which one is the thing that gets 48 hours of close coverage on the news.

[-] Semicolon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Seems like only in America "political terms" are loaded with actual bullets and regularly shoot bystanders in schools, nightclubs, malls and other public spaces.