Someone Is Going to Get Killed

[babylonsister]

https://splinternews.com/someone-is-going-to-get-killed-1828129266

Someone Is Going to Get Killed
Hamilton Nolan

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The American discourse does not need “civility.” But it does need nonviolence. Barring that, it needs gun control. Unfortunately we have none of the above. So it is only a matter of time.

I have covered Trump rallies and seen the old men hollering at the press pen. I have covered an NRA convention where the “mainstream media” was booed far more lustily than actual mass murderers. People employed in the media don’t give a damn, really, as long as you don’t shoot us. But time and the political winds and all the pretty guns are not on our side. Someone is going to get killed. Whether it’s Jim Acosta shot down at a Trump rally or some nameless local political reporter stalked and murdered in private, it will happen because someone out there will have become convinced that it is the right thing to do. To protect America. Most reporters, who tend to be depressive, grandiose careerists with a pathological need for attention, are not heroes; but whoever is the first to get killed as a result of the sick political climate that enables Donald Trump’s obsessive ambition will actually be a martyr, in the same way that flawed people who get drafted and sent off to war become heroic in death, if not in life. The journalist who gets killed will end his or her life as a monument to the majestic but mistaken idea that the press can stand separate and apart from politics in a democracy. It is an idea that is too beautiful to exist in modern America. As other dictators, strongmen, and craven political opportunists have demonstrated many times before, an impartial press is no match for the unrestrained human ambition for power. For a long time reporters have labored under the noble delusion that they are the Red Cross on the battlefield of truth. When they start getting murdered, they’ll realize they were soldiers all along.

[struggle4progress]

1. "When your goons start killing people, we'll hold you personally responsible"

[lapfog_1]

2. someone going to emergency, someone going to jail

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[lpbk2713]

4. Then they came for the journalists.

And I did not speak out because I was not a journalist.

Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.


Is it just a matter of time?

[Behind the Aegis]

5. Yes, I think it will happen.

Probably sooner, than later. Will it be at a "rally"? That was my initial thought, but given these hypocritical shitstains don't allow guns at their rallies (Why won't someone think of the 2nd amendment?!?), the likelihood drops. During a live broadcast would have more impact, but be harder to orchestrate and even a lone gunman would have a difficult time getting through security. So, my fear is someone will be gunned down at home or while on assignment where is usually zero protection.