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"In addition to his initial intention of killing Hegseth and/or Johnson, the affidavit said, English told police he considered burning down the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank."

Guy turned himself in, but doesn't really say why.

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[-] InternetLefty@hexbear.net 53 points 1 day ago

Sounds like the guy was having a crisis and thought he could easily end his life this way. Nobody who seriously desires to and plans to kill someone in politics in this day and age shows up outside the capitol building with a folding pocket knife and two 50 milliliter vodka bottles with sweatshirt bits stuffed into the tops (literally airplane bottles). You bring at least a semiautomatic rifle or a handgun, two very easy things for people is this country to obtain.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The real madmen are building custom 50ml drum-fed molotov-launchers

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago
[-] Omegamint@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

Doohickey-maxxers

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago

50 milliliter

Wait the little “shooters” that are the size of a thumb? Lmao wtf?

[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago
[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

I remember in a game about making your own cartoon weapons, I made Molotovs Fruit Punch Bowl

[-] InternetLefty@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

That's what the article says!

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