I think it’s an argument worth having. I had a member of my inner circle say after the WHCD attack say, ‘well, they missed him again’, which I took as a statement of regret. Naturally, I got angry. I don’t believe this person is a terrible person, but it’s perfectly acceptable to let one’s TDS trend towards statements of violence. We all know this. Why? Just read the Internet, or listen to our elected political leaders. Maximum Warfare!
I, for one, am sick of it. Charlie Kirk is dead! And what lesson has the left learned? Assassination works! An effective voice for us has been silenced. I brought this issue up to an independent friend. He mumbled something about both sides do it, and whattabout the guy in Minnesota (a talking point he’d clearly gotten from the liars at CNN, as they guy in Minnesota was an associate of Tim Walz, not a Republican). I want our side to make the argument both sides DON’T do it. The violence is coming from the left.
Unfortunately, both assassination and terrorism work. The latter a lot more effectively than the former, because if you look at a lot of assassinations, the aftermath is kind of like starting a war. Sometimes you don’t know where events are going to lead you. The killing of Archduke Ferdinand and Abraham Lincoln are prime examples.
But you’re right that taking a player off the field often does work for the left, and the right is just not willing to go there, nor should they.