Close call for Trumpers in Holy Shit!

Craaaaaazy!

I turned the TV on this morning when it was breaking news that Trump had been shot, although they were reporting it as though he hadn’t been hit and he just just ducked when the shots were heard, but then I had to go to work and later on learned that he had in fact been hit. Geez! What is it with assassination attempts on US. Presidents? Who’d wanna do that job?? Anyway, I’m hearing it was some 20yo kid. I was surprised to hear there was a vantage point near a rally, but I guess they can’t really be avoided. Anyway, kid dead at 20. What an idiot. And Trump seems to be okay, thankfully. Someone else in the crowd died though? Jeeeez. Fucking hell.
“HowdTheyMiss” was trending on ‘X’. Of course there’s already been a few inappropriately funny memes about it, including his wife holding a shovel. One of my Facebook friends wrote a status saying “Alec Baldwin wouldn’t have missed!”
My housemate agreed with me when I said I thought it was only a matter of time before this happened and was surprised it took this long, sadly.

I guess Americans are used to gun violence these days. Hard for me to say, not being American, though.
Of course it was shocking news for me to hear about it, and I had to wonder if my views on death by guns is as sensitive as it is because of our strict gun laws for the past 28 years. I mean, if a gun was held to my head, I’d probably have a sinking sense of dread and decide I was dead already before the trigger had even been pulled. I don’t think that’s healthy! And I think that’s because I’ve been so desensitized to guns even being a thing since our laws were brought in, back in 1996. I was only 13 years old. I remember being in Paris and seeing the soldiers everywhere with guns on them, prominently displayed. It was a bit of a culture shock. But it made sense - they had just had a terrorist attack there a few weeks prior. I recall because we had to wait for the train lines to reopen to even get to Paris. But when we got there, there was no-one around - no lines for the Eiffel Tower and went straight up. There were a few more people at the Mona Lisa. I guess it was safer there. I even had the entire accommodation to myself as everyone else had cancelled their bookings.

And yeah, Luke died via gun violence, which added to the shock. A police officer abused his priviledges and checked out a gun on a ‘pay per event’ basis (or something like that), shot him and his boyfriend, Jesse, and checked the gun back in at a different police station the next day before handing himself in a day later. So there are ways around the gun laws here, if you’re a cunty (now ex) cop. I still find myself getting so worked up about it, even now, almost five months on. I still quite often wonder if Luke was scared in those last few moments of his life, as I know I would have been. I need to learn shit like this is out of my control! I know it is, but it’s so hard to implement sometimes.
The thought that he’s still not put away and rotting in jail yet, and is using mental health as a plea, just makes me sick.

Anyway, not a Trump fan, but this obviously shouldn’t have happened, and I don’t think it was staged. I do have to wonder if this will get him more votes though.

Last updated July 14, 2024