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Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally; walked off-stage

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No matter how you spin this, it was a bad day and could have been a lot worse. You might hate the man but going out like that would not have been a good day for the US. It would go down like Bobby Kennedy as a dark milestone in our shared history. Happy it was a near miss instead of the reason for a state funeral.

I don’t envy the Secret Service at all. Thousands of events and interactions that all have to be choreographed to protect politicians who by definition are not universally liked, in a country with more guns than people. Thankfully most people are not homicidal lunatics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8474PcH-eXY

The Secret Service boot camp instructor's introduction is a very humbling introduction.

"You don't get 'a bad day' in the Secret Service. There's plenty of other pursuits out there. Noble pursuits - lawyers, plumbers, firemen, doctors. If one of those folks has a rough night the night before - stays out late - they have to deal with their boss, some kind of disciplinary action.

If YOU 'have a bad day' and YOU don't do your job, you're going to change the world."

Seems like hyperbole. I'm sure there are a lot of bad days where secret service are sleep deprived and nothing happens.

And many good people die because of hungover doctors.

That's how they talk in the USA. Everything is bigger there and if it isn't you better make it sound like it is.

It's at times like these I question my choice to have showdead on...

Better to know in cases like this, I think.

I always wonder who pays them to make new accounts for all that. The more they post, the worse I suspect.

Nothing good will come from this.

https://www.youtube.com/live/1RgEu4Lzcts?t=510

I wonder if

>A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed

could be reinterpreted with more emphasis on the well regulated bit. I mean it originates from the British bill of rights of 1689

>That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law

but in Britain we've mostly managed to regulate things a bit more.

Oi, you got a loicense to post here mate?

   but why?

After years of violent rhetoric and attacks like the one on Paul Pelosi, I doubt anyone is surprised.

I miss the end of history.

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