Welp, It Happened...
...Somebody took a pot shot at Donald Trump.
It was at a rally yesterday in Butler, PA. The guy shot at Trump's head and mostly missed; the bullet nicked his ear. Another attendee, however, wasn't so lucky - that person was killed. The Secret Service killed the shooter and hustled Trump off the stage. Trump himself didn't look too rattled - he raised a victory fist as he was taken away.
So Trump is just fine.
At the time, though...
At the time it happened, I had no clue what was going on, because I was working. I would have known nothing for a lot longer if a shopper hadn't been talking about it on her cell phone; when she got off, she was checking updates and saying, "There's going to be a war if they don't cut it out." It didn't take too much skull sweat to know which "they" the shopper was talking about.
And damn, was I scared.
I don't like Trump at all. His policies are senseless and cruel, and his personal character is about the same. Having him back in the White House would be a disaster for our country. But as President Biden said, right after the attempt (as opposed to watching it all on TV for three hours), "Political violence is unacceptable." I want to beat Trump at the ballot box and send him away to obscurity and prison, not make him a martyr (he's already slated for prison; one down, one to go).
But if the termite-ridden MAGA branch of the GOP started blaming us Democrats...what then? Would they start doing drive-by shootings on any house with a Biden-Harris sign in the yard? Kidnap and kill our pets? Honestly, I was hoping that my house would be intact when I got there after work. Because at the time, I had no data to work with other than "Trump got shot."
Now we know...kind of...
The FBI got right to work on the case, and it only took them a few hours to find out that the shooter was Thomas Matthew Crooks, from Bethel Park, PA. He was 20 years old, a registered Rebublican whose first vote was in the 2022 midterm elections, and an extreme gun enthusiast (he was wearing a Demolition Ranch tee shirt at the rally). Why he chose to take a shot at Trump, I don't know yet. Neither does anyone else...but the conspiracies are flying already.
I will write more when I know more. Stay tuned.
