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Well, the shooting he incited in Maryland today should be enough of a reason to ban him.

It’s pretty heinous to use a fresh tragedy to try to smear your political opponents. I expect more from this community.

I think you ought to look up the definition of heinous. It applies to shootings, not to expressing disapproval of a public figure.

Not to mention one of his supporters shot a peaceful protestor outside on of his rallys in Seattle last year.

The shooting of the journalist at the rally or the shooting at the newspaper? It’s so hard to keep track of American shootings!

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I'm not left wing. I just think Twitter's unwillingness to enforce their terms of service and delete the accounts of those who call for violence has consequences. It's a reasonable opinion.

The fake news seems to be jumping on Milo when the shooters motives are currently unknown.

It's not really fake news that Milo publicly calls for violence. Anyone who calls for violence should have their Twitter account deleted.

When did Milo publically call for violence?

For anyone still following this discussion:

We now have evidence the shooting had nothing to do with Milos comments:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5898141/At-four-shot...

Yet at least two people on this thread are acting like there is credible evidence his tweets caused the shooting.

This is the danger of fake news!

At least one person on this thread is acting like publicly calling for violence is ok.

Who?

You aren't content just to consume fake news - now you are trying to produce your own fake narrative!

No, this is the danger to jumping to conclusions based on preconceptions. There are plenty of people whose minds were made up about the motives for this attack before being misled by false media accounts or 'fake news'.

> There are plenty of people whose minds were made up about the motives for this attack before being misled by false media accounts or 'fake news'.

How? Without the fake news how would any of this be linked to Milo?

In fact without any of the fake news why would this be linked to the right wing at all?

If CNNs headquarters were shot up I'd understand - but why would anyone on the right target a random small center-left newspaper?

Preconceptions should at least make some sense!

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