Here is why people are frightened and unhinged about Trump's thinly veiled threats

[Stuart G]

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Why? Because many of us were around when President Kennedy was assassinated, and Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated, and Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. Also, the attempted assassination of President Regan is in our minds. This is no game, and it is no joke. This is not reasonable, it is dangerous and is like yelling "fire " in a crowded theater (when there is no fire and just to frighten people)....which is totally against the law, and not protected by free speech....If anyone disagrees with this last sentence, ask any lawyer, and he/she will tell you it is against the law to yell fire in a crowded theater when there is no fire.....very dangerous...(if there is a real fire, ok to warn everyone in the theater..of course)

And, I would add this.. some of the people who have beat up protesters at Trump events have been proven to be dangerous and harmful.

[jorae28]

1. Vile threats are to provoke

He wants to play that game. Kennedy, Kennedy and King were all progressive democrats. The Reagan thing was a nut job for Jodie Foster. Not to worry...only progressives are the enemy in a capitalist country.

[Stuart G]

3. I disagree completely and totally..

These threats are real and dangerous. This is no game. This is yelling fire in a crowded theater with people who are afraid of fire..Don't be mislead. This is real and deliberate.

[anamandujano]

4. There is plenty to worry about. He talks and some idiot might carry out his suggestion.

[anamandujano]

2. He is criminally insane. Lock him up.

When are the authorities going to do something about it? When will the press turn their attention to it?

[awoke_in_2003]

7. The scary thing...

is- even if we lock him up, his supporters are still out there.

[napkinz]

9. millions of RILED up deplorables!

[awoke_in_2003]

11. Extremely well armed deplorables...

scary indeed.

[Yallow]

22. With The Mental Capacity Of A Rat

If they are lucky.

[jtuck004]

30. Also known as neighbors. n/t

[napkinz]

32. yes, that too

[anamandujano]

10. Trump is a born loser who doesn't like losing.

People need to be told that THEY will go to prison and probably to their death while Trump retreats to his golf course. Somebody needs to step up. Any Republican who doesn't loudly denounce his vile tactics is with him. That's all.

[Divine Discontent]

5. I was thinking about that, too. It's reprehensible what he's doing, and driving hate in those who

are lustful about their guns is disgusting and should result in his supporters who are slobbering lusters of their guns thinking, "I can't vote for that monster."

[Yallow]

23. What Good Are Gunz If Ya Can't Uzzim?

Right Cleetus?

[Divine Discontent]

25. like NUKES!

[awoke_in_2003]

6. Don't forget another nutcase,

Caribou Barbie, put a target on Gabby Giffords' name, and we know how that turned out.

[Stuart G]

8. You are correct..more on Gabby Giffords shoting, and death of six people (18 shot)

Oswald was shot on live TV as he was being moved to another spot. It was different, but it was a killing on live TV..Horrific and real. The fear is real and the threat is real, just as you mentioned, with the attempted assassination of Gabby Gifford............least we forget..

On January 8, 2011, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and eighteen others were shot during a constituent meeting held in a supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in the Tucson metropolitan area. Six people died, including federal District Court Chief Judge John Roll; Gabe Zimmerman, one of Rep. Giffords' staffers; and a nine-year-old girl, Christina-Taylor Green

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting

[ffr]

12. Is it any wonder ISIS and the Taliban have so much in common

with today's Republican Party. Brutal in their cruelty and hateful in their hearts. Just a step away from anarchy and lawlessness.

[jberryhill]

13. Lawyer here...

You can certainly yell fire in a crowded theater if there is one or if you reasonably believe there is one.

[Stuart G]

14. I have changed the original post to conform to what you have writtin here...that is...

You cannot yell fire in a crowded theater, just to frighten people, when there is no fire..that is against the law..I am sorry I did not make that totally clear..and you are correct...if there is a fire..of course you can warn people...I stand corrected.

[jberryhill]

20. Of course...

You say "just to frighten people", but suppose that there actually is a fire, but you don't know that.

If you are under the mistaken belief that there is no fire - in other words there actually IS a fire, but you do not know that - and you start yelling "fire" intending to frighten and injure people, then have you committed a crime?

[Lifelong Protester]

15. Some of us HAVE lived through all those assasinations

and been scarred by it. As well, several of us spent time in a bomb shelter during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This guy's threats are not a joke-they are real. All you have to have is one 'nut' who hears the 'dog whistle' and does it (the evil deed).

[Stuart G]

16. I agree with you..one "nut" who hears the 'dog whistle' and does it (the evil deed)

We have about 320,000,000 in the United States today..give or take a few ...

do you think there is one "nut" out there?

and that is why this language is so very dangerous..

[Lifelong Protester]

19. I've seen enough of these 'nuts'

and I see that decent people are swept up by him because he has an R behind his name. I guess they are disregarding all the other stuff he says, because "gosh, he's a Republican'.

He's dangerous, and if he gets anywhere near the WH, I'm outta here.

[jtuck004]

31. Timothy McVeigh wasn't "nuts". Just as sane as you or I, according to the courts.

Just a different problem-solving philosophy.

[Stonepounder]

17. Free Speech is a very complex subject and not nearly as comprehensive as most people

believe. However, one very specific limitation on free speech is 'incitement to violence'. However, there seems to be some ambiguity over what constitutes 'incitement to violence'.

"Incitement to violence" can legitimately apply only to actual encouragement of violence against specific innocent parties by a speaker or writer.

Whether Trumps remarks rise to that level in the eyes of the law is the question, and would require someone much more knowledgeable in Constitutional Law than me.

However, IMHO, Trump is dangerous, Trump is playing with fire, and Trump should be locked away in a room with very soft walls.

(Disclaimer: IANAL)

[Cracklin Charlie]

18. Why?

Gabrielle Giffords.

[Lithos]

21. Who are you talking to?

There are many audiences afloat.

And not all are frightened by what the madman says...

That's the issue we all need to deal with.

L=

[Yallow]

24. Trump Uses A Blow Horn Not A Dog Whistle

It's only a matter of time.......

Republicans love people who talk about doing violent things "to them" remember?

They have eaten so much Fox/Rush red meat, they need more meat. Real meat.

[Missn-Hitch]

26. Are there any progressive militias?

If the orange fella wins, he dies of heart attack after one year in office. Discovered in his Saddam chair - white, satin trousers down around his ankles. A bulbous belly testing the tensile strength of a sweat drenched wife beater.

Enter President "Sarah Palin with a penis but without the charisma".

Going just as gawd planned.

[stage left]

27. Why aren't more people frightened by his thinly veiled threats?

That's my question. How can he be anything like close in the polls?

[beachbum bob]

29. america has 40% assholes...thats why it "appears" close...

[beachbum bob]

28. trump supporters love it....so thats why trump keeps doin it...

[liberal N proud]

33. We know many of Trump's deplorables have a tendency toward violence

Put that with the recollection of Kennedy we fear for Hillary and for the country.

Talk about things that should disqualify a candidate, this should get one put in lock up.