"When the looting starts, the shooting starts." Our president, folks.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/protests-over-george-floyds-death-spread-across-us-live-updates/ar-BB14KP19?ocid=spartanntp&pfr=1

"Trump suggests protesters could be shot, and Twitter says the president violated its rules.

"Twitter said early Friday that a tweet from President Trump suggesting that protesters in Minneapolis could be shot violated the company’s rules against 'glorifying violence,' in a move that threatens to escalate tensions between Mr. Trump and his favorite social media megaphone over its content policies.

"The company prevented users from viewing Mr. Trump’s message without first reading a brief notice describing the rule violation. Twitter also blocked users from liking or replying to Mr. Trump’s post.

"But Twitter did not take the message down, saying it was in the public interest for the president’s words remain accessible.

"And on Friday morning, the official White House Twitter account posted a tweet that copied the words of Mr. Trump’s earlier post. The White House post was also flagged by Twitter for violating its policies.

"Mr. Trump’s tweet about the Minneapolis protests echoed a comment by Walter E. Headley, the Miami police chief who attracted national attention in the late 1960s for using shotguns, dogs and other heavy-handed policies to fight crime in the city’s black neighborhoods.

"Mr. Headley announced a 'get tough' campaign in a December 1967 news conference that prompted angry reactions from black leaders, The New York Times reported at the time.

"'We haven’t had any serious problems with civil uprising and looting,' he said, 'because I’ve let the word filter down that when the looting starts, the shooting starts.'

“'We don’t mind being accused of police brutality,' Mr. Headley also said at that news conference. 'They haven’t seen anything yet.'”

Sounds like a MAGA approach
Trump supporters posting on Politics side claim State house protesters ‘didn’t steal t.v.’s or set fires’

Trump supporters know their blowing smoke trying to compare a Protest with a genuine Rodney King moment.

Trump escalating African American riots using the ‘you loot we shoot’ provenance is simply embracing an Obama moment.

Something tasty Trump supporter can wrap their minds around and tell themselves how much more civilized and functional they are than those people

It also serves as a much needed distraction to focus attention elsewhere, anywhere, but on Trump’s rising issues

Martial law and/or cancellation of the election in the works.

I would doubt it ,with Trump
Sky’s the limit

According to Donald Trump:
Nazi's in Charlottesville? Good people.
Protestors in Minneapolis? Thugs who need to be shot.

Is the only answer then, to let our country descend into chaos?

"I'm not looking for reasons to shoot people. You should stop looking for reasons to excuse rioting"

So, our only options is to shoot people, eh? Sounds like an excuse to shoot to me. Rioting and looting commercial property does not excuse shooting unarmed civilians. Nor does it excuse shooting civilians who have committed a non-violent crime like George Floyd. Rioting and looting doesn't necessarily put innocent individuals in direct physical harm.

Using physical force to prevent that is an entirely different thing. A gun should not enter into the equation unless absolutely necessary. That is where our President utterly failed to comprehend the situation happening around the country. And his words only served to escalate the situation. Prompting people like you to become his parrot... saying that guns are necessary.

Yes, of course, if someone breaks into YOUR store and steals YOUR property, in some cases you have a right to defend your property. With a gun. That is you defending YOURSELF.

If you go out of your property and roam the streets with YOUR gun, and defend other people's property and you have zero to little training and no authority? That's vigilantism. Also illegal. Making a citizen's arrest of someone that could've been deescalated without restoring to weapons, and ends in the death of that person is a failure to justice.

That also doesn't mean police officers or the national guard should be shooting people for doing the very same crime.

If you see unarmed people attacking someone, and you physically stop them with force. Fine! You shoot them, fine! Guns are a great tool for that. The problem is that most people who are taught how to handle a gun are told to shoot lethally. Without hesitation as their safety is usually paramount. Even if that person is unnamed. Our police officers and military shouldn't be doing that if they have other weapons and other training to stop or prevent the destruction of public and commercial property.

If anyone shoots to kill an unarmed civilian and that was their first instinct to deescalate the situation? I have a problem with that.

Got it?

I could probably say I agree with that

Maybe the President shouldn't suggest we shoot people who break the law instead of, I dunno, arresting them?

Arresting them would be the first option yes, but what if they begin attacking the people arresting them?

Unarmed civilians are still capable of killing.

That doesn’t mean you put them down like dogs.

Alright then, what would you do if a group of unarmed people was going around killing others?

Show me a group of unarmed killers. Better yet, show me the number of people killed by this unarmed group of killers.

What are you trying to get at? You telling me it's impossible to kill someone without a weapon?

Are you telling me there are a group of people killing people without weapons out there?

Or are you trying to make excuses for cops killing unarmed civilians for petty crimes?

Look at the dude who beat up an old man in a nursing home. You don't need to tell me he didn't kill him, I know, but it would've been really easy if he had just wanted to kill him. Just a current example for you

Maybe you should stop looking for reasons to shoot people? Just a thought.

I'm not looking for reasons to shoot people. You should stop looking for reasons to excuse rioting

Because looters are not protesters idiot. Stop watching cnn you npc

You think there protesting to GUCCI Looters and protesting are not alike or the Sam thing. The left trying to act like there kind souls its an illegal shopping spree fool