Reply #145: "You(r) gun toting buddy was looking for trouble with a gun and recorder."

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Once again, you make the DailyKos' writers point for them:

....The victims are sometimes understood to be manipulative, to be 'pretending' to be victims so that the attacker can then be forced into attacking them. The victim thus becomes the provocateur, the attacker the helpless victim, goaded beyond endurance...

....And analysis is key. In every case, the supposed provocateur is doing nothing that is threatening, dangerous, or harmful to the attacker. That is the thing to focus on when arguing against this type of reasoning. This is nothing but a bully's lament, because just attacking someone is not enough for them. They must wave the bloody shirt of victimization, even if it was they that did the victimizing---and it's the blood of their own victim staining the shirt. They were provoked! They cry. That person came looking for trouble! They say.