'Arm Trump': spectacularly wrong lessons Americans will learn from the shooting 16th July 2024 THE US is panicking and running in all directions after the attempted shooting of Donald Trump, and prepared to come to the following wildly erroneous conclusions: “Arm Trump” If the former president had been packing an assault rifle, the permanently-armed believe, he could have returned fire and taken out the shooter. Therefore, like kindergarten teachers, he should pack heat at all times. Also useful should he come across crimes taking place in the course of his daily round of court cases against him.
“Hold bullies’ victims at gunpoint” There are plausible rumours that the 20-year-old Pennsylvania shooter was badly bullied. Rather than restricting gun ownership, the obvious move is to keep weapons trained on anyone being bullied – for life. Bullies could liaise with SWAT teams on who they’ve given a dead leg that day, and if they seem angry about it lethal force should be authorised.
“Biden and the liberal media ordered this” Biden, the sleepy old man who was a danger only to himself last week, did say to ‘put Trump in a bullseye’. Trump, by contrast, merely calls him crooked, claims he is the victim of a legal witch-hunt, and attempted to overthrow an election. None of that is in the least inflammatory.
“Jesus survived an assassination” Being crucified isn’t really an assassination, but hammering facts out of shape to make them fit the cult of Trump is.
