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submitted 1 month ago by HurlingDurling@lemm.ee to c/news@lemmy.world

How is this not bigger news?

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[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 month ago

I'd bet anything the police and media response to this is and will be orders of magnitude less than when that healthcare guy got clapped.

[-] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 month ago

Insurance guy. The healthcare is what he was denying.

[-] Placebonickname@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Well said…

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[-] BMW_stick@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

Do we need to mention that they were both democratic politicians? Many of us would love to see the list of the others he was going to kill. I'm sort of thinking they were all Democrats.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

if they were a Republican it would be screamed everywhere about how liberals are using violence

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[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

it was, there was a list being mentioned on a subreddit, it includes tim walz, and others, plus abortion workers.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

…the gunman had a list that included her name and the names of other lawmakers, all of whom were Democrats. The list included about 70 potential targets, a federal law enforcement official said, including doctors, community and business leaders, and locations for Planned Parenthood and other health care centers. Some of the targets were in neighboring states.

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[-] Placebonickname@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

You know what’s fucked up is that I don’t even have to look. I can tell you right now that the victims in this crime are part of the Democratic party. You know how I know? Because the FBI director and the president are talking about prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law and how violence in America will never be acceptable.

But if it was the other way around and a Democrat went nuts and killed a Republican senator Donald Trump would be on truth social calling for that person to be hung or stretched or quartered or whatever it is they did to people in the middle ages.



[-] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 month ago

But if it was the other way around ... Donald Trump would be on truth social calling for that person to be hung...

Not just that, but he would be demonizing the whole Democrat party, saying how their dangerous rhetoric caused this and the party needs to be outlawed and its leaders arrested.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Just look at what they're doing to our boy Luigi

[-] hemmes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This right here — as the if the Republican Party has done nothing to inspire violence

Edit for clarity

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[-] blattrules@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Even worse, I’m sure when they catch this guy, trump is going to pardon him.

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[-] obviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The details of this story are horrifying. The assassin went to the houses of two different lawmakers in the middle of the night (2am). Dressed as a cop.

In the dark, the people in each house had no reasonable way to know that the person ringing their doorbell at 2am was not a cop. Presumably he shot whoever came to the door then entered the house and shot the other spouse.

There's no way the people who were shot could have reasonably prevented being killed

So, just like the 9/11 hijacking changes everything about how people respond to a hijacking event, this changes everything about answering your door. You see someone dressed as a cop at your door, you don't answer the door. You call 911, then have then identify the name and badge number of the cop at your door and you don't answer the door until 911 acknowledges its a real cop at the door.

[-] Alenalda@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Don't answer anyway, if they have a warrent they will come in regardless.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

They come in without one all the time, and just get a bit of PTO for it, courtesy of we the people.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

This is big news. Google it.

More info on him: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/minnesota-shootings-gunman-suspect.html

Mr. Boelter and his wife run a private security company in Minnesota, according to its website. The company, Praetorian Guard Security Services...

...the gunman had a list that included her name and the names of other lawmakers, all of whom were Democrats. The list included about 70 potential targets, a federal law enforcement official said, including doctors, community and business leaders, and locations for Planned Parenthood and other health care centers. Some of the targets were in neighboring states.

Mr. Boelter, the site said, had traveled previously to violent areas “in the Gaza Strip and West Bank,” the site said, and had “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn’t the answer.”

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[-] TomMasz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

This isn't just assassination, it's terrorism designed to scare opponents of Trump from speaking out. The media won't say that, of course, because it's likely the shooter is white.

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Exactly that. Also, don't forget that every chance they get they say "a man posing as a police officer" and they then describe that he was dressed exactly like a cop including a badge and cop car

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[-] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Sure sounds like MAGA is trying to start a hot civil war.

Going to be interesting when these people find out liberals are well armed and trained.

[-] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

It’s been funny when they’ve come up to me calling me the f word because I’m clearly queer and then I flash my piece at them and they get white in the face and back the fuck off me real quick

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah, flashing your piece at them does indeed strike me as a tad gay ;-)

[-] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

lol nice. In all seriousness though, magats are always disgusting human beings who are very ugly inside and outside so they’d never get my dick

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[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

TBH, I seriously considered going strapped to the protest today. But I think I'd rather be a martyr than be the guy who shot someone at the protest even if it was to defend myself and my fellow protestors. At least that's my thinking now while violence is unlikely in my town. If violence gets more prevalent and more expected, I might change my mind.

[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago

That was my exact thinking this morning as well. My state allows concealed carry without a permit, so I could legally go with my carry... but I thought better of it. I didn't expect any violence where I'm at, and it just seemed like it wasn't worth the risk, being the cause of more harm than good. It kinda went against the spirit of this protest imo, so I left it at home

Fuck it, I'm not that scared of dying that I gotta go strapped everywhere to feel safe. There's a time and place for carrying, and the protest wasn't one of them for me

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I’m proud of you for thinking critically, we need more of that in the world. Thank you hoppy spider guy.

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[-] resetbypeer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

How convenient. House is a 67-67 D and R. State Senate 34 D 33 R. Not political at all this assassination......

[-] Moose@moose.best 11 points 1 month ago

Are there actually no safeguards against this? It seems like a pretty big fucking flaw in a democratic system if you can kill the opposing elected officials in order to gain control of the state. Like their votes should temporarily go to someone else in the party or something, not just be wiped out completely.

[-] Zenith@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Even the article explicitly says this is politically motivated, this isn’t being presented as random

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

it was kinda obvious since it was targeting democrats only, and abortion providers.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

someone mentioned that in subreddit, yea they want to break that tie, but it would be whoever is control that appoints a special interim though.

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[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

Convenient for the Trump administration that the (non-Fox) news is going to talk about this all day instead of the millions of people protesting him all across the country.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 4 points 1 month ago

With the news cycles being 24/7 these days, there's no reason they can't talk about both. Blame them for being shit.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

its on purpose, because the owners of all the MSMs are conservatives, just look who owns it

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[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 9 points 1 month ago
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[-] shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Can't seem to find the 'reply' button on any comments in any threads anymore, they musta changed something... so I gotta create a top level comment now to reply.

"So, just like the 9/11 hijacking changes everything about how people respond to a hijacking event, this changes everything about answering your door. You see someone dressed as a cop at your door, you don’t answer the door. You call 911, then have then identify the name and badge number of the cop at your door and you don’t answer the door until 911 acknowledges its a real cop at the door."

IDK about you but after you don't answer the door, I wouldn't be calling 911, I'd be playing possum with a fucking loaded gun waiting to go off if the front door opens or waiting for them to leave. The guy didn't say he had a warrant, and if the police have a warrant just one cop isn't going to be there, it'll be a Pride of LEOs.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

"They will be prosecuting anyone involved to the fullest extent of the law," Trump said in a statement. "Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America."

Ah, like they did with the violent perpetrators of the January 6th insurrection, until you pardoned them all and set them free.

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[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 1 month ago

Anyone want to bets that it was a Nazi who did the shooting?

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Those where in Europe, they have since rebranded themselves to wearing red hats

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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

He was dressed as a cop, driving a police car, wearing a blue uniform, and a bulletproof vest.

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Time for real Americans to start dealing with the traitors in and out of our government.

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