Doesn’t look good!!

Edit: Saw a closeup, he’s 💯 dead. Jugular shot and it gushes like the Cool-Aid man shattered.

Edit 2: Fox is apparently reporting that he’s admitted to the hospital, maybe he’s a snowball that survived hell?

Edit 3: Mixed reporting on if the shooter has been arrested or not. A video showed an old bald white dude in custody.

Edit 4: Trump just had to be the one to announce it… He’s dead. Apparently the old white dude was not the shooter. You can see from the distant video that people did not react to a close shooter, it was at distance.

    • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Trump was only actually shot at once. The other two times the would-be shooters were apprehended before they had a chance to shoot.

      Besides the fact that all of those shootings (that were shootings) clearly did make things worse and are now rallying cries for contemporary fascist efforts, you’re missing something important: None of these shootings killed or even seriously wounded someone the establishment cares about. Trump got a scratch and the other shooters killed nobodies. Kirk was someone who personally had Trump’s ear and literally wasn’t folded into the administration formally mainly because he was (imo correctly) estimated to be more valuable to them where he was in ““independent media,”” where he was the golden boy of the conservative think tank circuit, backed by many billionaires and companies, and now he’s been killed on a college campus in broad daylight in view of multiple cameras while on tour doing his “political speaking” (reactionary sophistry), specifically while concern-trolling about shooting done by minorities.

      The only major reason to think this might not produce a catastrophe, and a major factor in the Trump shooting not being bigger, is that there’s a good chance that the shooter is a white Republican (in this case a boomer, even). That might be enough to diffuse their efforts. But we saw how the (actually detrans) “trans shooter” from before produced a push for ridiculous measures against civil liberties. If the shooter isn’t who the early reports indicated (or even if they are but are a Dem, queer, or something else), this is going to have serious repercussions.