Did you know that Melissa Hortman’s murderer has still not been charged with domestic terrorism, despite the fact that he specifically targeted Democrats in Minnesota?
Also, we still have no serious restrictions on gun ownership. You can gun down small children and far-right political figures, and we still can’t get gun control. In South Korea, guns are tightly regulated — even hunting rifles are expected to be locked up in the city courthouse, and if you want to use them, they have to be checked out. I would vote for that.
In Britain and Australia, conservative (!) governments introduced strict gun control after especially awful spree shootings.
The Repubs have no ideology, beyond “please the base with bullshit that cost no money while we let our corporate sponsors rob them blind”.
Don’t forget Gilbert.
Source : https://houseandwhips.com/melissa-hortman-dog-gilbert/
Oh and her husband Mark as well.
This isn’t as bad as it sounds.
Melissa Hortman’s murderer has been charged with murder under the state laws of Minnesota.
This means that if and when he is convicted then…Trump can’t pardon him!
The Federal power to pardon only applies to Federal crimes.
Would Trump pardon this hate and terrorist criminal?
He might.
No one trusts the Federal government any more for very good reasons.
He is now far into dementia and is mostly a meat puppet of the far right wingnuts around him.
Kirk will get more sympathy and amplified publicity, mostly attacking the radical left.
Guns and killings will continue to make headlines for years to come. After Sandy hook, we, as a country, did nothing and nothing will continue to happen regarding gun control.
Here is a headline in my local news feed.
After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Trump and MAGA make explosive accusations: ‘Party of murder’
I’m going to explain why it looks like Trump is losing contact with reality.
Most know that Poland was attacked by 19 Russian drones a few days ago. This is a major escalation of the Russian war against NATO and the West.
Poland and Dutch fighter jets shot them down.
The various NATO leaders had a lot to say about this.
Canada Prime Minister Michael Carney “Russia’s incursion into Polish airspace last night was reckless and escalatory. Canada stands with Poland and our NATO Allies,” Carney said in a statement posted to X.
President Trump “”What’s with Russia violating Poland’s airspace with drones? Here we go!” Trump wrote on his social media platform on Wednesday.
The Canadian Prime Minister said Canada stands with NATO.
Trump seemed confused and didn’t say much of anything useful. There has since been no US followup. It is quite possible that Trump has since forgotten it and moved on to whatever shiny thing has since caught his attention.
We are heading to the point where we don’t actually have a functioning president any more.
this is an illustration of a very real problem. we see memes and jokes (from the ‘right’) posted when Paul Pelosi was attacked, and (at best) incidents like this one ignored by them. Yet we (on the ‘left’) get immediately blamed for our rhetoric – labeling people extremists or nazis – and the derision that sympathies offered are not sincere. The hypocrisy is breathtaking, and it is overwhelmingly one sided. I have seen nothing but prominent democrats and democrat leaning pundits expressing horror at Kirk’s murder and offering sincere condolences to his family. While the current president rants about retribution and lists a number of attacks against GOP folks (and ignoring the rest of the attacks – like the subject of this post)
As I learned on The Daily Show, Switzerland has a level of gun love which is similar to America’s. Well, aside from the fact that the Swiss still value human lives more than their guns. https://youtu.be/tNpl9Nh85TM
After Charlie Kirk’s killing, MAGA influencers call for violence
Here’s a random thought I had last night. I may have read too many sci-fi novels in my day, but here goes. What if the Kirk killing was the equivalent of the old question, If you could, would you go back in time and kill Hitler in his youth? Perhaps Kirk’s killer is from the future. He may have come back to stop Kirk from becoming president, and causing all sorts of mayhem, perhaps even the destruction of the nation. If the shooter is never caught, that would be grist for the time travel idea.
As I said, I may be steeped in too many time travel tales seeking to undo a terrible past.