Sujet : Just another mindless mass shooting... De : x (at) *nospam* y.com (X, formerly known as \"!Jones\") Groupes :talk.politics.guns Date : 17. Jul 2024, 13:32:12 Autres entêtes Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID :<9jdf9jdkbg36b0cflcr7qk3btqq0r8aa4p@4ax.com> User-Agent : Forte Agent 1.8/32.548
Calling it: "an attempted assassination" is akin to labeling the one at the Christmas party at the Inland Regional Center building in San Bernardino on Dec. 2, 2015 a "terrorist attack". Terrorist cells don't attack office Christmas parties and assassins don't spray the crowd with random gunfire. The shooter at the Trump rally had no discernable political motivation... any more than the Sandy Hook shooter attacked because he didn't like children.
The timing was *great* luck for the Donald! That was what's called a "million-dollar wound"... cosmetic, but trivial. It allows him to thump his chest. Even if he had been neutralized, it would not have been good for the Democrats. *Any* assassination, whether successful or not, always boosts the target's public standing.