[SeekAndFind]

I searched Google for “Is it a crime to call for the death of a former president” — after all, these are the kinds of searches that land people on lists. Federal statute 18 U.S. Code § 879:

…prohibits knowing and willful threats to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm against the following categories of persons who are protected by the United States Secret Service:

1. Members of the immediate family of the President;
2. Members of the immediate family of the Vice President;
3. Former Presidents;
4. Members of the immediate family of a former President;
5. Major candidates for the Office of President and Vice President;
6. Spouses of major candidates for the Office of President and Vice President within 120 days of the general Presidential election; and
7. Immediate families of the President-elect and Vice President-elect.

And 18 U.S. Code § 871 — Threats against President and successors to the Presidency — states:

Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

However, it’s a stretch to think that ordering, mailing, or wearing shirts calling for a “dead Trump” constitutes a threat. Still, inquiring minds wanted to know why Amazon would allow these on the site.

[crusty old prospector]

Amazon is a demonic monopoly. Shun the beast.

[Vaduz]

Amazon would allow these on the site.

It got the word out about the shirts a heads up for the black market it isn’t like they didn’t know the law they have a staff of them to protect the company.

They worth is showing?.

[hanamizu]

Lest we forget, in 1963 it wasn’t a Federal crime to murder the President of the U.S. (unless it was on Federal property).

[MNDude]

here’s an idea of a shirt.

Has Trump’s upraised fist and it says:

Bullet
Largely
Missed

[Revel]

And the Federal government should be demanding records from Amazon for anyone who purchased one so that those people can be checked.

[MayflowerMadam]

Michael Seifert, CEO of PublicSquare, was on Charlie Kirk today. He said the shirt was up for only about 4 hours before it was removed. He said Amazon took a lot of flak for it. I didn’t know it is possible to contact Amazon so quickly about things like this.

[JimRed]

That’s why I suggest “accidents”.