President Donald Trump told ABC News on Sunday that he "may" call Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after a political assassination sent shockwaves through the state.
  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1071·
    26 days ago

    Good opportunity for Walz to say, “fuck no I don’t want to talk to the guy whose rhetoric instigated this.”

  • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world
    63·
    26 days ago

    Listen, I’m a piece of shit criminal with credible evidence of sexually assaulting 28 women. Why would you expect me to act like a decent human being?

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
        121·
        26 days ago

        Funny how there’s almost never a good guy with a gun, like statistically almost never. There was that cowboy that shot an active shooter in a church, and I’ll give props to the guy the ran into Uvalde when the uniformed bad guys were too chicken shit to save kids lives, and just hung outside. I can’t think of any off the top of my head, although I know they exist, but I could prattle off at least a dozen high profile shootings.

        • Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          26 days ago

          There was one just this weekend. A guy with a rifle popped up at a Utah No Kings rally. Two people who were on hand to protect the protesters stopped what would have almost certainly been a mass casualty event.

          Sadly, an innocent bystander was killed by the defenders. And that is the real issue. Guns are extremely dangerous even when used properly. Even good guys with a gun are not perfect and innocent people are often injured or killed on accident. We have too many guns in this country and not enough regulation and enforcement.

          • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            6·
            26 days ago

            Even in this case, it wasn’t the random “good guy with a gun”. It was a member of the peacekeeping group setup by the event organizers. IE, it was their job.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
          101·
          26 days ago

          Usually the good guys with guns are militia or are shot by the cops. A damned fine example I know of happened after WW2 where when a bunch of men got back to their home county they basically had to form a militia to expel the corrupt sheriff who was doing shit like ballot stuffing. Spoiler the sheriff and his mafia goons didn’t stand a chance against men who just got done fighting the Imperial Japanese and Nazi Germany.

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          26 days ago

          Last stat I saw was 1in 7000, but that includes cases with collateral damage.

          So, for America, that’s like once a year.

        • SupraMario@lemmy.world
          25·
          26 days ago

          This is sooo false it’s not even funny. There are way more DGUs than there are not.

          And like it or not most mass shootings are stopped by someone with a firearm.

          • jj4211@lemmy.world
            5·
            25 days ago

            There are way more DGUs than there are not.

            I think this is a pretty gigantic citation needed here. I couldn’t find anything supporting this assertion but plenty of material showing the opposite.

            • SupraMario@lemmy.world
              1·
              25 days ago

              Before the CDC took it off the site, they had reference to an estimated 500-2.5mil DGUs a year. DGUs are hard to estimate because a dgu can be as simple as presenting the firearm to a would be attacker and the attacker leaving the victim(s) alone. Most people don’t call the police because of this.

          • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
            3·
            26 days ago

            DGU. I didn’t know they invented an initialism at the rallies.

            most mass shootings are stopped by

            …the perp taking his own life.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
    11·
    25 days ago

    Why does Trump need to call Walz? It’s obvious they’re not going to be on the same page about this or cooperate. The call would just be a waste of both their time.