Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspectin Saturday’s shooting, was registered as a Republican voter, according to Pennsylvania records.
Already the republicans are dismissing his voter registration as meaningless. Here comes the “mental illness” angle.
Edit: apparently it’s not uncommon to register with the party you oppose in PA. This is going to be a fun ride.
It’s the normal procedure here in Finland to try to take someone down with shooting in the legs or somewhere else that they might survive from. Not the case if they start shooting of course, it’s more for situation where they’re wielding a knife and coming for the cop or someone else
Right, and that’s nonsense, people suck at aiming when they’re scared.
Seems to work here. They have to go through a lot of training.
Just as well it’s not just “people”, it’s the trained and armed police. Same happens in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lee_Rigby