Breaking: Shots fired at Trump @ Pennsylvania Rally

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  1. LiveUninhibited

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    Conservative states have a worse murder problem, but I will withdraw the point about murderers being more likely to be conservative. I did not see actual data either way, it seems more likely they are simply not political than conservative or liberal.
     
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  2. George Bailey

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    Exactly. These young people grow up hearing Trump is Hitler, he will destroy us all, We have to stop him or our democracy is over etc etc. No wonder you see some epsilon loser **** up trh to do this. I believe the left calls them impressionable useful idiots.
     
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    democrat run cities in red states tend to be where most of the murders are. Ohio is a red state. Cleveland is the most dangerous city in Ohio-it is heavily democratic,
    https://propertyclub.nyc/article/most-dangerous-cities-in-the-us
     
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    Holy cow, this reminds me exactly why I almost never come to this area of the forum. You all are just so ******ned vile over here.

    I now am wearing hair to the small of my back, does that make me a redneck?

    In fact, rather humorously when I was in Alabama about 2 decades ago my hair was just as long. Which resulted in one of my funniest police encounters. True story, got pulled over for a tail light, and the cop pulled me out and said almost immediately "I smell weed". I actually laughed, and said he had one hell of a nose as I had not touched pot since 1981. And within minutes I was in the back of his cruiser in handcuffs and he was calling for a police dog to search my car. Convinced he had a "California Hippie" drug runner.

    Thankfully his Sergeant as soon as he heard my name, the description of my car, and where I was pulled over (right in front of where I work) called and cancelled the drug dog and came himself. The computer store I worked at was a popular hangout for the local cops, and I knew half of the department on a first name basis. And they knew not only was I about as anti-drug as you can get, I was in the process of joining the Army. And that even though my other vehicle was a crotch rocket, I always obeyed all traffic laws. He apologized to me, and the Sergeant later gave him a real reaming out for profiling people without a reason. Just because somebody is a long-hair from California does not make them a hippie. Or mean that they use drugs.

    And as an FYI, I grow my hair long for the exact same reason now as I did then. I grow it out for approximately 3 years, then have it all cut off until I am almost bald so I can donate it to Locks of Love. A non-profit organization that uses donated hair to make wigs for children undergoing chemotherapy.

    https://locksoflove.org/

    One of many organizations I actively support. To be honest, I absolutely hate having long hair. But I will put up with it because it goes to help kids.
     
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    I guess they are a bigot, and think that all white guys with long hair are the same.
     
  8. Izzy

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    Keyes is a vindictive creep who did a few years in jail for doxing.
    Who knows if this is legit?
    Matthew Keys
    @MatthewKeysLive

    #BREAKING: Pennsylvania voter registration records show Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, is a registered Republican. Crooks has been identified by law enforcement sources as the shooter who attempted to assassinate former President Trump at a rally on Saturday.


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  9. Izzy

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    Oh FFS!
    I posted the tweet for the photo, that one hadn't been posted yet and left the tweet in tack to show it's source.
    I guess you're right though, fragile hot house flowers don't do too well on forums.
     
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    Are you talking in rate percentage, or numbers?

    One thing that a lot of people know, is that "figures lie". And by using misleading things like "per capita", they can twist reality however they want.

    Want to know the state with the most murders?

    California.

    You don't get much more "Blue" than California.

    Second is Texas, and half of those murders are in "Blue" cities of Houston and Dallas.

    Third, Illinois. And if you look down the list, by far the murders are not actually spread among states, but major cities.

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/195331/number-of-murders-in-the-us-by-state/

    Georgia is often seen as "Red", but the Atlanta metro area where most of the crimes happen is deep Blue.

    And remove those violent Democratic run cities, in reality the crime rates in those states plummets dramatically.
     
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    Did I miss your post or did you miss mine?

    I'm still waiting to hear you tell us what it is about his photograph that makes you think he is a " redneck " .
     
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    A registered Republican?????? Say it ain't so!
     
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    But are republican run large cities safer? The reality is that urbanization correlates with both crime and being liberal. But it’s spurious, liberal and crime share a common cause rather than causing each other.

    There was a relatively even keeled analysis by the manhattan institute, encapsulated by this table:


    Table 1
    Effect of 10-Point Increase in Trump Share on the per-Capita Homicide Rate

    Variables in Model -County Level -State Level
    No Controls –14%* +25%*
    Race, Age, Gender, Urbanization, and per-Capita Income –0% –3%

    Source: Authors’ analysis of data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MIT Election Lab, and U.S. Census Bureau
    *Considered statistically significant at the conventional (5%) level

    Basically, when you control for known variables associated with homicide, the apparent effect of politics disappears on both sides (3% wasn’t statistically significant).
     
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    Which means absolutely nothing. In California, it has long been common for Democrats to register as Republican in order to game the primary system. That is one reason why for years the Republicans ended up with candidates for Governor that not even they wanted. Absolute nobodies that generally had the personality of a sponge and nobody had ever heard of. Guys that were rating in the bottom third of candidates, yet somehow won in the primary.

    Great example was in 2002, when they ended up with Bill Simon. Which had everybody going "Who?", as he was competing against well known politicians like Richard Riordan. And had no political background at all, and had only moved to the state a couple of years earlier from New York.
     
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    What table?
     
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    Here we are. Biden, Obama, Harris, all of them... Condemning political violence. It's like the child that burns the house down and then condemns fireworks. These ****ing people!
     
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    There is no such place as a large Republican city.
     
  18. Izzy

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    Yes it is.

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    They’ve lied for years about Biden’s mental health. The last 4 years Biden has said Trump is a threat to democracy.
     
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    You and I both know that if someone dug up evidence he was a registered Democrat there would already be a dozen threads denouncing Democrats for trying to murder Trump and NONE of those people would accept an excuse that he was a Republican pretending to be a Democrat.

    His electoral enrollment may not have been accurately reported and may not be relevant no matter what it is, but disengenous claims like this are part of the problem with America. People just make up their own realities and retreat into them to avoid reality.
     
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    Cut the crap with posting snips of my posts thereby leaving out the source of my re-post.
     
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    ANTIFA and BLM have destroyed many cities without repercussion from Democratic leaders. Biden has been warning Trump is a threat to democracy for 4 years.
     
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    No. The father is supposedly a therapist. No surprise at all. They probably talked through things... And the kid always got an ice cream after...
     
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    Again, how old are you comrade?
     
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