They created this violent world. We're just forced to live in it.
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If it were up to us, gun violence wouldn’t only matter when conservative royalty is killed. It would also matter when Democratic legislators are murdered, and especially when schoolchildren are slaughtered.
But it’s not just the guns. It’s the climate that President Donald Trump and his allies have built. Scholars call it “eliminationist rhetoric”: the idea that political opponents aren’t simply wrong, but evil, dangerous, and must be eradicated. It’s language that leaves no room for disagreement or coexistence, only destruction.
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For Kirk, gun deaths weren’t a tragedy to be prevented, but a cost to be accepted. He called it prudent. Rational. And now his own family is paying the price.
So stop blaming liberals. We hate this shooting as much as conservatives do. The difference is we hate all the other shootings, too.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/10/2342853/-They-created-this-violent-world-We-re-just-forced-to-live-in-it
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