Gunshots at Trump Rally (Split from 7/13 IGT)

[ashie62]

Something happened with Trump, gunshots

[ashie62]

He has been shot

Sorry

[Edgy MD]

I haven't yet seen any notice that he was hit.

The photos certainly include blood on his face.

[Edgy MD]

“An incident occurred the evening of July 13 at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania. The Secret Service has implemented protective measures and the former President is safe. This is now an active Secret Service investigation and further information will be released when available.”

— Anthony Guglielmi, US Secret Service chief of communications

[The Hot Corner]

Is it just me, or does anyone else think this is the kind of thing Trump would stage to impress his followers with how tough he is.

He is striking a pretty defiant pose in the above photo. However, Mr. draft dodger has always hit me as someone who likes to talk tough, but would be the first person to hide under a table when a fight breaks out. If shoots were fired at a Trump rally, I fully expect he would be the first one to cower behind his Secret Service agents or a table. Then I would expect him to bluster bravado what a coward the responsible individual was and how he (Trump) would kick his ass if given the opportunity.

[whippoorwill]

Yes Hit Corner.

What a douchebag

[batmagadanleadoff]

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/watch-tru ... 4810693743

Check out the video. It sounds like the shooter got off about six or more shots. What a lousy shooter.

[MFS62]

If that many shots were fired, where are the other bullets; who else got hit?
I heard on ABC that the Secret Service immediately apprehended someone and rushed them away.
Now his followers will be able to spin this any way they want - the defiant hero, it must have been an illegal alien, it must have been a (fill in your own group here).
My immediate thoughts:
1) They missed. MAGA folks wouldn't have.
2) Did they check Melania for a weapon?
3) It was a set-up to give him campaigning points- not blood but hair dye.
4) Biden had better watch out.
And after a few minutes,
5) He's been fucking Jodie Foster?

OE: just heard the shooter (and two other people) are dead. Now they'll really be able to spin it.

Later

[Centerfield]

Awful. I heard a photographer was shot and will not survive.

Somehow this gun violence will end up sealing victory for the party that allows gun violence to happen.

[DocTee]

Reichstag fire, anyone?

OE: that was unkind of me. I hope that all affected are ok.

[Bob Alpacadaca]

If that many shots were fired, where are the other bullets; who else got hit?
I heard on ABC that the Secret Service immediately apprehended someone and rushed them away.
Now his followers will be able to spin this any way they want - the defiant hero, it must have been an illegal alien, it must have been a (fill in your own group here).
My immediate thoughts:
1) They missed. MAGA folks wouldn't have.
2) Did they check Melania for a weapon?
3) It was a set-up to give him campaigning points- not blood but hair dye.
4) Biden had better watch out.
And after a few minutes,
5) He's been fucking Jodie Foster?

OE: just heard the shooter (and two other people) are dead. Now they'll really be able to spin it.

Later

You are so much better than this. Don’t do this.

[Edgy MD]

Very unsettling that we don't yet have confirmation on whether or not the former president was hit.

I'm going to have to guess yes.

[metirish]

Apparently glass fragments from the teleprompter being hit ,anyway, this lad is deranged

[Edgy MD]

Well, I sure wouldn't have advised him to say something that profoundly foolish, if those are indeed his words.

[TransMonk]

It might have been rhetorical, but Trump has ruined the meaning of that word.

[metirish]

Collins says dumb shit all the time, fuck him

[Batty31]

I totally think this was staged. Why didn’t the SS cover him up immediately? Instead his head was exposed and he was just standing there. The fist pump, the flag in the background, it just all seems to point to it being staged.

[whippoorwill]

I think it’s real now.

Too many casualties for a fake production and hopefully not even he would go that far.

Sad for the dead and injured. Again, senseless gun violence

[Edgy MD]

The notion of it being staged strains credulity pretty painfully.

[Cowtipper]

I'm not very political, but it seems like Democrats are very violent. I remember in 2020 all the cities were being burnt down by them, and now they're trying to assassinate presidential candidates. Very scary!

[whippoorwill]

This guy was a registered Republican

[Edgy MD]

Exactly zero cities were burnt down by anybody and I'm sure cowtipper knows this.

Let us not troll.

[The Hot Corner]

Oh it was all too real.

When I made the comment that it was the kind of thing I would expect Trump to stage, it was my initial reaction to the thread title "Gunshots at Trump Rally" with the picture of Trump fist pumping under an American flag. My first reaction upon seeing that minimal data, was that "I wouldn't put it past him to have staged it." Obviously, that was incorrect. It was yet another example of the far too common gun violence in our country. I pray for those killed and injured by this senseless act.

Will it cause Congress to wake up and do something to strengthen gun control laws and limit (or ban) the accessibility of semi-automatic weapons? I seriously doubt it.

[Lefty Specialist]

Republican responses to gun violence always involve getting more guns in more places.

Jury's still out on the shooter's motivations. Apparently a registered Republican, though, so that's interesting. Also had bomb-making equipment at home, so he seems like a good 'ol 'Murcan boy.

[metsmarathon]

Jesus Christ. The last thing this county needs is Donald trump, martyr.

Whatever this motherfucker shooter’s motivations, he just locked in the election, I’m afraid.

And an innocent man paid his life.