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This one's a doozy

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Third panel: Sex offender running for president gets shot, and survives.
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Am I crazy for not wanting anyone to get shot? I know how crazy our politics are getting, and I'm afraid of the future, but we shouldn't be wanting anyone to be shot at. Life is life, even if it's attached to the absolute worst person on Earth. Sure, lock up people who are a danger to society, but let's not celebrate gun violence.
- Trump is responsible for locking people in cages and having them die in there. And after being notified he doubled down on it. And many other acts that have led to people's deaths.
  
  Why are murderers above being murdered?
  
  If you want to talk about justice you need to maintain superior standards and morals.
  
  Your argument is no better than the "Saudi Arabia doesn't allow the building of churches, so why do we allow the building of mosques?" The answer is that we're better than fucking Saudi Arabia.
  
  Eye for an eye types of justice quickly become escalated and end up in a race to the bottom.
  
  Because we don't have to be all "law of the wild." Murderers deserve imprisonment, not death and endangerment.
- If I believed everything people think Trump would do if elected, how could you ethically not want to do it yourself?
  
  Put every marginalized person on one track and trump on the other. Do you pull the lever?
  
  Then I ask you: if this is how you rationalize the violence, what prevents you from doing the same?
  
  In a different vein of thought, does this same argument justify those on the far right who are frightened (logically or illogically) of the left threatening violence on their perceived opponents?
- Wanting to shoot Nazis is patriotic
  
  You need to be careful that you don't become what you hate. There are always going to be people that you disagree with on the strongest levels.
- The supreme court has kinda set things up so that he won't face prison, though.
- Right. Endorsements of violence are not Ok just because you hate an individual.
  
  And to anyone endorsing what happened, I certainly hope that a group of violent people or a violent individual never decide that they hate you.
- Presidents being shot is not unprecedented.
Shot AT- if it’s even true. He’s not a victim.
- Being shot at still makes one a victim of a shooting. Unless you wanna clarify that to all the kids at Sandy Hook, Uvalse, and the myriad others in this country.
  
  Meanwhile, if the shooter had better aim, we'd have a better country.
  
  nah, trump isn't what make your country that shit hole, it's your's "democracy" that create them, killing trump would only made him martyr
- Being shot at does make one a shooting victim, even if the rounds missed.
  
  You're missing a key point. Victim implies they suffered, where in trumps own words he should just get over it.
  
  I don't think Alex Jones would agree with you.
  
  The bullet hit a teleprompter. He wasn’t shot. He was shot at. He’s not a shooting victim. He’s a teleprompter that got shot victim.
Maybe Katie Johnson said enough is enough
Sounds like it was glass from the teleprompter that got him (shooter shot the teleprompter?)

Edit: Turnip is now claiming a bullet hit him. Not sure which story is true
- Turnip? Intentional or hilarious unintentional typo?
  
  Intentional
- Now they are saying his foot was on the line!
I only vote for candidates who people aren't shooting at.
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