People mistake "lack of sympathy" for "endorsement" (Scalise shooting)

[NCDem777]

Am I particularly sympathetic to people who marry Hell's Angels and the like and then are shocked they turn out to be psychopaths? No. Does that mean I think they SHOULD be beaten? No.

On the same token, I'm not particularly sympathetic to the GOP right now. They've actively courted people who think that shooting public officials THEY don't like is patriotic. If Scalise were a member of the EPA or Bureau of Land Management, half the GOP members who are blubbering right now would be calling the shooter a patriot who was "watering the Tree of Liberty" or some BS. And many would say that the shooting is REALLY a false flag.

So yeah, dude SHOULDN'T have been shot but I'm not exactly rushing out to buy him a Get Well card either.

[JenniferJuniper]

1. My father, who lost a nephew to

to gun violence put it this way:

How can I have sympathy for a guy who has been actively advocating for as many people as possible - including clearly crazy ones - to have as many guns as possible - and ends up a victim of what he himself encouraged?

No innocent person deserves to be shot. But my sympathy reserve is not a bottomless bit either, and there are many more far deserving of it.

[atreides1]

2. +1,000,000,000,000,000

Agreed!!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. K & R

[leftstreet]

4. sympathy vs empathy

'sympathy is feeling compassion, sorrow, or pity for the hardships that another person encounters, while empathy is putting yourself in the shoes of another'

[NCDem777]

5. I don't have much of either

for a party that has spent the better part of two decades recruiting people who think that shooting government officials they disagree with is the best thing ever.

Now the GOP knows how EPA, BLM and Parks Services agents feel.

[HAB911]

6. Voted to let the mentally ill buy guns

got shot this morning by one at a baseball practice

Link to tweet

[JenniferJuniper]

9. Instant karma

[dalton99a]

7. I don't "pray" for either David Duke or "David Duke Without The Baggage"

[msongs]

8. seems like being gun shot is only bad if one is a republican congressperson. how many others were

shot and actually murdered by gun owners yesterday besides the republican congressperson?