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Funnily enough, I believe him.
This is what a steady diet of Fox News does to a motherfucker. This is exactly why Americans are so obsessed with guns, it's why they pour so much money into their military, and it's why 9/11 fundamentally reshaped their culture. They're terrified of everything and anything around them, all the God damn time. They have to be armed, they have to be the biggest military power on the planet, and God forbid anyone remind them that none of that does them any good. America is a culture entirely driven by fear.
Fear doesn't excuse what he did. You don't get to murder defenceless people just because you're afraid. He chose to own a lethal weapon and he chose to make using that weapon his first reaction to something that frightened him, instead taking even a few seconds to assess the situation. That's 100% on him, and deserves every single year of that sentence and more.
As someone who doesn't own guns. This photo always makes me cringe.
All I see is poor trigger discipline, poor muzzle control, and two dumb fucks. It's amazing that they didn't "accidental" start blasting.
Some politicians would find themselves unelectable if they didn’t have a platform of fear and othering to depend on for their continued access to power.