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@Lawrence
Trump says a rock will be considered a firearm.
He is encouraging border agents and soldiers to commit crimes. Shoot to kill anyone who throws a rock at the southern border. No commander at southern border will allow shooting anyone for throwing a rock.
1:45 PM - 1 Nov 2018
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sheshe2
(83,341 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)What will the US soldiers do when given the order to fire upon unarmed women, children and babies?
0rganism
(23,856 posts)Lindsay
(3,276 posts)will allow shooting anyone for throwing a rock."
I wish I believed that.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)sheshe2
(83,341 posts)Nothing good is going to come of this.
C_U_L8R
(44,895 posts)A real President would greet refugees with food and care.
Trump is a despicable scumbag.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...Trump has shown himself to be a composite of the Don Johnson and Robert DeNiro characters...in other words, as you said, someone who is "bloodthirsting to hurt and kill refugees."
That's basically the main plot point of "Machete."
anarch
(6,535 posts)which will thus be considered to be "a firearm." He is literally advocating for refugees to be gunned down. Literally.
Mendocino
(7,431 posts)He says that he would shoot someone if he were intimidated by receiving the "dirty look". He also thinks that global warming is caused by radar sites in Alaska and that Hillary is "married" to Ellen.
DetroitLegalBeagle
(1,904 posts)Border patrol agents have shot and killed rock throwers for years now. Few cases have gone to trial and no convictions come immediately to mind, but I would have to look more into it.
awesomerwb1
(4,256 posts)to organize something that "escalates" (rocks and shots being thrown at our troops by bad hombres) so they can use it to justify a new and "stronger" push for the wall.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)That's all they need to KILL,it's all some of our local police need to KILL.
FSogol
(45,357 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,278 posts)foreigner or a person of color! Talk about cowardness
onethatcares
(16,133 posts)rock industrial complex, there is plenty of taxpayer money to be made on this.
For some reason a version of Alice's Restuarant keeps going through my head.
moondust
(19,917 posts)Treating them like Gaza protestors? (Many of whom harbor hostilities against Israel--unlike the caravan.)
In It to Win It
(8,143 posts)Can the military be used to enforce US immigration law given that this group of is not an actual invasion or an act of war?