Well what else can you expect? There was a leftist involved, after all.
Second ('Third') Trump Presidency Thread
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Is there any actual evidence that Cook was explicitly targeted for her conservative views? Murdering a disabled Uzbek immigrant along with her was certainly a clever way for the shooter to get the Feds off his trail if so.
Sure, but nobody outside of Brown University has ever heard of Ella Cook. Given that we don’t even know who the killer is, let alone that killer’s motive, declaring this tragedy an obvious political assassination is pretty clearly insane? Even if Cook was the intended target, there are plenty of possible motivations that are far, far more statistically likely than something that’s happened a couple times. In any event, RIP Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov. No matter the reason, neither deserved this and I hope their families find any peace they can in the days ahead.
zitothebrave
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zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
When Maga is too extreme for MTG you know it's gone too far. Grandpa needs to be forced into retirement he's too delusional.
This is confirmation bias at its absolute best. This is said by the right in the wake of practically every mass shooting. You just seem to conveniently forget that it took a while for law enforcement to provide details whenever it’s not a Muslim/Trans/Leftist shooter.
I’m not going to pretend it’s impossible by any means, but unless there is actual *evidence* it was a politically-motivated attack, you’re just needlessly politicizing the event with your speculation. Speculation that is, again, undercut by the other victim of the shooting.
We do, though. Not only was it immediately more obvious due to the fact that Kirk was a public figure shot at relatively long range by a rifle, but in the days after his murder we were provided evidence that Robinson shot him over rhetoric that he took issue with.
In fact, the push by the left to paint the Kirk shooter as a Groyper is a great example of why racing to control the narrative of a shooting in the absence of actual facts is so misguided and gross.
sturg33
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Yes only one side wants to end shootings and its not the side who keeps getting shot from insane leftists and Muslim terrorists
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Why was Kirk killed? Evidence paints complicated picture of alleged assassin : NPR https://share.google/RN58PoekJdGamvMQq
chop2chip
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Candace and Tucker disagree
There’s a certain amount of (largely needless) nuance you’re missing here, though. With the exception of complete idiots, nobody is really questioning whether or not Robinson killed Kirk over his views/words/public image. For some reason, people seem to want to dig in on exactly which views Robinson killed Kirk over, but it’s not some big mystery why Kirk was killed.
This essentially anonymous conservative woman (along with a young man named Mukhammad) being shot on a college campus pretty clearly does not have as immediately obvious of a motive as Kirk’s assassination. This is once again not a denial of the possibility, but the right is pretty clearly jumping to some conclusions not yet supported by facts.
But there’s not actually much experience to draw from? How many examples can you actually point to of conservatives being gunned down, either on college campuses or otherwise.
Cool, do you know many school shootings are not political assassinations? It might surprise you to learn it’s a bit more than one.