Discussion: Trump: If Synagogue Had Armed Guards, 'Results Would Have Been Far Better'

Screw you old man. Mine has guards all the time because of your lunatic followers.

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The NRA wishes we all would believe that. An armed society is a polite society!

Except for the colossal increase in spur-of-the-moment shootings and suicides, of course.

My personal favorite is how arming everyone will stop tyranny. The population of Iraq, who under Saddam had an AKM in nearly every home, would love to debate that point.

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Trump on Saturday said that if the house of worship had armed guards, ā€œthe results would have been far better.ā€

You know how ā€œthe results would have been far betterā€?

By not putting a racist in the Oval Office.

Who bragged about being able to shoot people on Fifth Avenue.

And encouraged his followers to attack political opponents and ā€œknock the crap out of them!ā€

And hired people who wore actual axis uniforms and medals to his Inaugural Ball.

And locked up thousands of families in concentration camps.

And said there were ā€œgood peopleā€ among swastika-wearing thugs who rioted in Charlottesville.

Iā€™m thinking thatā€™s how ā€œthe results would have been far betterā€ā€¦

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It has already happened a couple of times in recent years, but the perpetrators were so profoundly ignorant they each attacked Sikh temples instead. Sadly I agree with you that this is only becoming more likely, not less.

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seems to me that there was an armed guard at the florida high school tooā€¦

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100% of Trumpā€™s instincts are grotesquely corrupt. The nation cannot withstand this.

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So mushroom dick says there should have been armed guards in a synagogue for a bris? Words fail or he needs a mohel.

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Good news!

Your hat has been shipped.

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Trump is an absolute dangerous lunatic. Heā€™s the worst society has to offer, and heā€™s completely born out of conservative right-wing politics.

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Trump said he would speak about the shooting further at an event later Saturday.

Please donā€™t

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I knew he was going to says something like this. I figured he would at least wait until his poop tweeting tomorrow morning.

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There is no bad situation Trump cannot find a way to make worse. For all of our sakes I hope he chooses not to speak about this further later today.

On the bright side? With this story I found I still have the capacity to feel shock at things Trump does.

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Contrary to the rhetoric often spewed by politicos who suck up to the NRA, bullets and bibles make poor bedfellows.

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Zero discernible moral compass. As Josh has noted a few times in the ed blog, when heā€™s called upon to do so, Trump canā€™t even fake it.

Itā€™s times like these I get very upset at those mental health providers who hold out judgement on whether Trump has a personality disorder. All reputable providers Iā€™ve spoken with agree heā€™s a textbook narcissist. The only debate among them is whether his dysfunction qualifies as a disorderā€¦ defined as doing things that are genuinely harmful to his own self-interest, because heā€™s unwilling or unable to behave differently when circumstances call for it. The more awful the situation, the more clearly Trump demonstrates that he canā€™t change his internal channel.

edited to add for clarity: I know that a great many mental health providers have indeed weighed in on this subject. My point is that the mental health community is not unanimous on this front ā€“ not even remotely. They are truly divided over Trumpā€™s status with respect to having a disorder. Thatā€™s a term which has a specific mental health meaning, and is quite distinct from just being weird, or an asshole, or even checking the boxes for a DSM profile. To me, thatā€™s inexplicable; whenever heā€™s faced with an even slightly unfamiliar situation, and is forced to react in real-time rather than rolling out some word jumble that he knows people will want to hear, you get weird, often self-damaging Trumpian disordered nonsense. Every. Single. Time. There are psychiatrists who watch Fox News too, or are more mundane low-information voters. I can only hope theyā€™re truly not exposed to the rest of what he really says and does, and thatā€™s the only reason they withhold judgementā€¦

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The BIGGEST FAILURE in all of America, no doubt!

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Never gets any better
Only worse
Every time

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Heā€™s a fricken moron

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A MAGA SHOOTER

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VOTE it away!

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No mohel can remove what ails him.

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