Looks like someone took some shots at prez candidate Donald Trump at a rally in PA. From the videos I’ve seen, it looks like he did get grazed.

    • Captain_CapsLock@lemmy.worldOP
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      It’s not clear at all that that’s what happened. It is completely plausible that someone would shoot a firearm at a candidate in a hotly contested presidential election. Let wait for evidence to roll in yeah?

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        You know for a fact that if the shoe were on the other foot, this is exactly the rhetoric we’d be hearing.

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          So let’s not do what they do and live in an evidence-based world and not an emotion-based one.

          The “facts don’t care about your feelings” party doesn’t care about facts and spends a lot of time on how their feelings are hurt.

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            My evidence (in addition to the weirdness of his reaction, and the convenient blood) - has any article mentioned a shooter being seen/shot/arrested/known to exist? I can’t remember a time where there was a shooting and no article said ANYTHING about a shooter, only about the shots. Nothing could be better for the Trump campaign than for him to be “almost” assassinated.

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          You’re right. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit. But I still hold all parties to a standard of honest discourse.

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      I wouldn’t be surprised either way, honestly. It would be the right timing for a false flag though for sure.

      But then on the other hand this is the prescribed treatment for tyrants, per our fore-bearers.

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        Yes. You are correct. On reflection I should have put quotes around it as it was intented to convey that but not actually imply that it was the case. It is good you called it out.