Subject: Re: Unique Challenges in a Gun-Crazed America
"All true, Now with that out of the way, does your side bear any responsibility for month after month calling him "Hitler", or warning the citizens, "This will be the End of Democracy", or rallying the base with "Trump must be stopped by any means possible"."

No. Not at all. That is silly as well as dishonest.

For one, you are assigning words to "my side" that I or a majority of "my side" did not say. I personally don't know any Democrat or Independent who has said "Trump must be stopped by any means possible." I have said Trump needs to be stopped, but that in always in reference to making sure he is not voted into office by educating ignorant voters. Not by any means possible. Besides, I personally do not want see Trump killed. I want him alive to have to face the consequences of his actions after he loses the next election. So don't go and try and put any of this on me.

For two, some of those words are true no matter how much you want to ignore that fact. No matter how deep you want to bury your head in your bowels. Trump DID try to overturn the result of a free and fair election (multiple ways). Given a 2nd chance who knows what he will do. Trump has been and will be a threat to democracy. You can continue to ignore this, but that just makes you willfully ignorant. If someone telling the truth bothers you, that is on you.

For three, only one national politician has regularly inspired his followers to violence. When was the last time hundreds of Harris, Biden, Obama, or Clinton supporters went and attacked cops directly after attending one of their rallies? Never happened. Why is that it only happened with Trump?

For four, apply your own logic to yourself. Do you take any responsibility for the violence and threats that have happened to the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio? Do you assign any of that responsibility to Trump and JD Vance? What is worse, those threats are the result of lies. Why don't you have a problems with someone spreading lies that end up threatening other people, but you have a problem with someone telling the truth?

For five, both Trump shooters (as well as the most recent Georgia school shooter) were clearly mentally ill. Now there is one political party that is greatly trying to make it so mentally ill people do not have easy access to weapons or war. The other political party is trying hard to make sure weapons of war are easily available to everyone. When are you going to take some responsibility for that?