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DANGEROUS REPUBLICANS
Paranoid Republicans Are Armed and Dangerous
More guns lead to more gun violence
The Republican Party has been stoking fear as an excuse for insisting that their constituents must be armed. As a result, they’ve cultivated a population of suspicious, paranoid people who are increasingly dangerous to innocent, law-abiding citizens.
Kyle Rittenhouse is a perfect example. He crossed state lines to interfere with a Black Lives Matter protest. Why? Rittenhouse claimed he went there to act as a medic, but then why did he bring a gun?
An 84-year-old man in Kansas City, Missouri, shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl for ringing his doorbell. The man said he was terrified, but by what? Yarl was there to pick up his brothers — he had no weapon, and he was on the other side of a locked door when he was shot.
A 21-year-old woman was murdered in the driveway of a man in a New York suburb for mistakenly driving down his driveway on her way to a friend’s home. His lawyer says he was frightened when two cars and a motorcycle drove toward his house — so he shot one of the drivers and killed her.
