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Christ I can put a Trump bumper sticker on the back of my car and some asshole liberal may ram me off the road, trying to kill me. Are we now prohibited from using bumper stickers? You want to limit free speech, not surprising. There has been attacks on people just wearing the MAGA red hat. Are we now prohibited from wearing a Trump MAGA hat. The power of a hat and a bumper sticker has no bounds in getting people to result to violence.
The wrong here is not the red hat or the bumper sticker or the rhetoric getting out the word of your policies that many on the opposing side will kill to stop. It is the individual that did the violent act who is going to be arrested. Not the person exercising his/her free speech rights. There is no connection from one to the other. A simple red hat or a bumper sticker can bring people to become violent. And you want to put blame on them for wearing a red hat and having a bumper sticker. Get out of here.
That's not the point I've made at all. I don't want to restrict anyone's free speech, and as I posted in the thread about a Trump supporter having their hat knocked off, it isn't acceptable behavior. What I'm saying is what leaders say can influence how people react and what they're emboldened to carry out, and while the individual is ultimately responsible, you're giving leaders a free pas about their responsibility in what they say.