2024 Election - Thread #1

[GethN7]

Y'know, if two different people try to assassinate you in as many months, maybe you're the one who's doing something wrong.

Suspect in second attempt charged with gun-related crimes

I vehemently disagree with that argument on the grounds I'd be just as horrified if it was Kamala's life being threatened. When you live in a democratic society and you go for murder as your FIRST option to deal with a politician you don't like, the would be assassin is wrong, not who they want to kill.

I get it, people despise Trump and are afraid of him getting another four years as President. Fine, not very thrilled with him (or Kamala) myself, would love better options, but we are stuck between two chairs here. Anyone who thinks the solution is to destroy one of the chairs when they can simply pick one of them is a criminal worthy of contempt.

That said, the idiots trying this madness, they are just giving Trump more publicity and hardening his base. Malcom X once said if we didn't have the ballot, we'd need to resort to the bullet. We still have the ballot, so I condemn the use of the bullet no matter the target.

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
-- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House (1 August 1775)

"Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us to tamely surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.... Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great; and, if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable."
-- Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson, Continental Congress Declaration on the Necessity of Taking up Arms

"We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in."
-- Thomas Paine, The Crisis No. IV (12 September 1777)


I can quote more of your Founding Fathers if you want.

Your country is founded on this behaviour. The only difference between the American Revolution and the current taking up of arms is that the former was done by organized groups -- they're both examples of armed opposition to the political process.

And it's worth noting the very people who won our Revolution went out of their way to make sure they and their posterity wouldn't have to shed blood again to ensure it.

Basically, the way I see it, said Fathers wanted to win a country that could decide things by reason, not bloodshed, and so long as that remains the case, I desire nothing more than the continued fulfillment of that wish. And I want Kamala and Trump to survive so the public can peaceably vote for their new leader, whomever it may be.