This mass shooting in Colorado Springs is horrifying and exactly what LGBTQ organizations and leaders have been warning would happen if the violent rhetoric toward our community continued. This is what happens when hateful propaganda goes unchecked.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/20/us/colorado-springs-shooting#colorado-springs-shooting
IMHO:
To get ahead of this, we need to start treating this as a feature, not a bug.
No amount of warning the GOP will work.
Why? Because they are strategically inciting it.
They have flooded the streets with guns.
They have systematically & legislatively demonized minorities & women.
They can't be shamed because, this is a success for them.
Today, the elected officials will do what they do after a school shooting. Distance themselves to CYA...but the hateful, demonizing rhetoric will continue.
@pm_mcdaniel @charlotteclymer
Also the blame game. Not where the blame TRULY belongs, mind you
Wherever they must to rile the base and the 2A nutjobs
Rinse and repeat
Just like they blamed the attempted assassination of the Speaker on "random crime" and used it as validation for their argument that "Democrats are soft on crime" and brought this on themselves.
Charlotte Clymer
Pam
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