David Hogg:If you threaten to kill a presidential candidate you should not have a gun

[kpete]

Link to tweet

[woodsprite]

1. AND you should not hold a leadership position. nt

[Iliyah]

2. K & R!

[Perseus]

3. Beto should report him to the police and get a restraining order

The FBI should begin an investigation and depose him of his guns while the investigation is open.

[Texin]

4. Absolutely! The House should censure him too!

And perhaps I'm badly mistaken, wouldn't the Secret Service probably investigate his threat to a presidential candidate (or does that only happen after the party has nominated the individual?).

[dalton99a]

6. "We are reporting to FBI"

Link to tweet

[Polybius]

7. Legally, it's tough because it's an indirect threat

He could also say "I mean come get it. Come in and I'll hand it to you so you can take it."

[Beartracks]

29. Or, you know, "a joke"! The same sort of joke...

... that Trump makes all the time, like the ones that humorously inspired a Republican fanatic to drive halfway across Texas just to shoot Hispanics in El Paso. Ha ha ha! Hear the funny Republican "humor"! Ha ha ha!!

If he claims it was a joke, he's joking.

In any case, this coward's thumbs are tweeting checks his balls won't cash.

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[tblue37]

19. His campaign apparently contacted the FBI, and Beto tweeted the same sentiment that Hogg did. nt

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[Gothmog]

8. I wish that is was not atypical for Texas republicans

Link to tweet

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Can't wait for Mr. Hogg to serve as President.

He’ll make a great one.

[SCVDem]

10. Acceptable?

In this day of mass murder, we teach our children to report ANY talk of firearms or violence and we owe them to investigate.

These comments are taken seriously in schools so I see no difference with this idiotic comment.

Tweets are a window to your soul!

Maybe Cain really is the guy who "seemed so nice" and "I never thought he would really do it".

Just like at the airport, you don't even joke about these things!

First is, why does he still have a twitter account. Isn't this a violation of TOS?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. My understanding is the Tweet was taken down

So I imagine Cain is in Twitmo for the time being at least.

[McCamy Taylor]

11. Does Beto have Secret Service Protection?

[dalton99a]

12. No.

[Totally Tunsie]

13. Sometimes you seek your destiny, and sometimes it finds you.

I don't know what plans or aspirations David Hogg originally had for his future, but Parkland may well have sent him off in a direction he had never imagined. He has a bright future in activism, if he so chooses to follow that path.

[aikoaiko]

14. Surely he meant his AR was ready to be turned in for cash per Beto

[TexasTowelie]

17. Odd that you consider this to be a laughing matter

because most of us don't.

[aikoaiko]

24. Politicians acting like tough guys is laughable.

[Hoyt]

27. Most gunners - stuck on their assault style weapons - are into the macho "Come and take em" (Molon

Labe) junk.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. These guys are total fucking idiots

He just made Beto's argument for him.

[ooky]

18. The unfortunate part of this is it is a dog whistle to a lot of RW nutjobs.

He has made Beto into a target. He should be arrested. If this isn't considered inciting violence against another individual, there needs to be a law that it should be.

[smirkymonkey]

20. These people are just so fucking sick!

I cannot understand this fetish for guns, I really can't. They are the biggest cowards in the world.

Anyone who calls out a threat like this should be arrested and have their firearms confiscated. They are a threat to public safety and need to be locked up.

I have a friend who just moved from San Diego to Texas, just outside of Houston. She wants me to come and visit her and her husband. I do not want to go for two reasons. 1. I hate to fly. 2. I do not want to visit a state where people can open carry and consider guns to be a measure of their masculinity.

I am not going.

[warmfeet]

21. What country allows one elected official to threaten the murder of another elected official?

Just one, as far as I can tell. Us. The U.S.

Something may be wrong here. Just saying.

[MyOwnPeace]

22. And tell me......

what other Republican has stood up and "suggested" that "perhaps" this wasn't a "proper" response?

OK, has there been ANY Republican stand up and claim that this guy is a F**king A$$h@le and should be locked up immediately, as well as driven out of his Congressional seat?

Hello - anyone?????????

Hello.......................................???????????????????????

[yaesu]

23. and this double standard, never joke about doing this to a fascist president

While Bush was president Richard Humphreys happened to get into a harmless barside discussion with a truck driver where he joked about bionically burning Bush,
A bartender who overheard the conversation, reported it and poor Humphreys ended up going to prison for 3 years.

[former9thward]

25. Well, David has done his share of threatening on twitter....

Link to tweet

Maybe neither one of them should have a gun?

[calimary]

26. Briscoe Cain sounds like he's exactly the kind of guy we should take guns AWAY from.

Threatening a candidate for the highest office in the land? Sounds like some sort of felony to me.

And we've ALL got screen shots of it.

[dflprincess]

28. And I have to wonder if he used "Robert Francis" instead of Beto

just to remind him (and us) what happened to Robert Francis Kennedy.

[Beartracks]

30. Cain just kinda red-flagged himself, didn't he? n/t

[samnsara]

31. I just donated to cains opponent...