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Photographer

(1,142 posts) Wed Aug 10, 2016, 05:53 PM Aug 2016

Could the Trump comment cause a backfire?

Plenty sickos's out there. I am worried.

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Could the Trump comment cause a backfire? (Original Post) Photographer Aug 2016 OP

Yes! Wellstone ruled Aug 2016 #1

The sicko antigovernment fringe feeds on this. Believe it or not beachbumbob Aug 2016 #2

Gabby Giffords . eom ReformedGOPer Aug 2016 #3

Yes; that's why public figures shouldn't say things like that gratuitous Aug 2016 #4

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

1. Yes!

Reply to Photographer (Original post)

Wed Aug 10, 2016, 06:10 PM

Aug 2016

The Hate web sites are eating this stuff up.

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)

2. The sicko antigovernment fringe feeds on this. Believe it or not

Reply to Photographer (Original post)

Wed Aug 10, 2016, 06:12 PM

Aug 2016

We have millions who wish to see the US breakout into a civil war....the bundy types are all around us....and they eat the trump crap up....

ReformedGOPer

(478 posts)

3. Gabby Giffords . eom

Reply to Photographer (Original post)

Wed Aug 10, 2016, 06:14 PM

Aug 2016

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

4. Yes; that's why public figures shouldn't say things like that

Reply to Photographer (Original post)

Wed Aug 10, 2016, 06:41 PM

Aug 2016

There is no shortage of people in our country who aren't entirely psychologically stable who have access to firearms. Public statements like Trump's comment may very well be all the permission one of those people needs.

Responsible public figures know this, either explicitly or on some deep level, and temper their public utterances accordingly. If they cross the line, they try to walk it back. Trump hasn't even acknowledged that what he said might be taken wrong by anyone, let alone apologized.

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