By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-24 12:07:08 | Updated at 2024-09-30 17:29:04
6 days ago
Why Are the Nutjobs Trying to Kill Political Opponents All Left-Wingers?
American Greatness ^ | 24 Sep, 2024 | Josh Hammer
Posted on 09/24/2024 4:47:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Politically motivated violence is more prevalent among left-wing individuals and aggressive rhetoric from the left may exacerbate this dangerous climate.
In Aug. 2012, a left-wing MSNBC afficionado named Floyd Lee Corkins armed himself with a handgun and extra magazines. He drove to the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the socially conservative Family Research Council, planning to shoot it up. Corkins, who later cited the Southern Poverty Law Center for the proposition that the FRC is an “anti-gay” organization, was also carrying 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches, which he hoped to stuff in his dead victims’ mouths. Corkins, who served as a volunteer at a local LGBT community center, was stopped by an unarmed security guard.
In June 2017, a left-wing MSNBC afficionado named James Hodgkinson armed himself with a rifle and handgun. He drove to Alexandria, Virginia, in hopes of assassinating the Republican team practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game. He severely wounded then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who thankfully survived after receiving multiple blood transfusions and surgeries. Five others were also injured. Hodgkinson was a 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign volunteer who, in a Facebook post three weeks before the shooting, wrote: “Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.”
In June 2022, a young Californian named Nicholas Roske flew to the nation’s capital. Roske attained a handgun, zip ties, a tactical knife, a hammer, a screwdriver, a crowbar, duct tape and other burglary tools. At 1:38 a.m. local time, about a half-hour after a taxi dropped him off in front of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Chevy Chase, Maryland, home, Roske had second thoughts and called 911. After his arrest, Roske told police he was angered by the leaked draft opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization abortion case.
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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; noaccountability
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1 posted on 09/24/2024 4:47:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
To: MtnClimber
What percentage of the left is certifiably insane?
2 posted on 09/24/2024 4:48:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
To: MtnClimber
Left is basically my way or highway mentality.
3 posted on 09/24/2024 4:52:18 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I will be voting for Trump/whoever he picks VP in November. If he loses in 2024, country is toast.)
To: MtnClimber
4 posted on 09/24/2024 4:53:28 AM PDT by nopardons
To: MtnClimber
It’s Trump and Rand Paul’s fault for being conservative and upsetting the left wing nut chopping lunatics, ok?
5 posted on 09/24/2024 4:53:35 AM PDT by imabadboy99
To: MtnClimber
Because leftism is a cult and the recruitment is hate-based.
6 posted on 09/24/2024 4:53:41 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
To: MtnClimber
“By their fruit you will recognize them”. Leftism is where the Godless and morally corrupt tend to congregate. So what do you expect?
To: MtnClimber
Political violence is the left's stock-in-trade. It's just who they are.
8 posted on 09/24/2024 4:54:08 AM PDT by LIConFem (Every day Feels like April 19th, 1775...)
To: MtnClimber
The UN(mostly Leftists) just voted to takeover the world with their “Pact Of The Future” a document with a cover page and a pile of blank pages and they’ll make up as they go along , Guterres wants to be the first King Of The World
9 posted on 09/24/2024 4:56:03 AM PDT by butlerweave
To: MtnClimber
10 posted on 09/24/2024 4:59:30 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
To: Bobbyvotes
a personal favorite...”Conservatives seek agreement while liberals demand compliance” L.Star
11 posted on 09/24/2024 4:59:59 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
To: mewzilla
12 posted on 09/24/2024 5:00:58 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
To: MtnClimber
13 posted on 09/24/2024 5:01:16 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (What is the cost of lies?)
To: mewzilla
Whoops, my bad.
24 seconds.
BTW, love the Sousa...
14 posted on 09/24/2024 5:01:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
To: MayflowerMadam
I’ve priced billboards.
They ain’t cheap.
If that gentleman really did that, God bless him for putting his money where his mouth is.
And that billboard company was screwed since it couldn’t claim they wouldn’t accept political advertising there, eh...
Bleeping brilliant.
15 posted on 09/24/2024 5:05:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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