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So they named the one death from the shooting the other day but the leftists are getting antsy something’s up that they’re not naming the resident (and running him as “a homeowner”)

After ventilating the traffic blockers with a .45 he was shot by a rifle (presumably an AR). Which means that some of the protestors were, in fact, armed, even organized into armed roles. And while “bringing a gun to confront some old lady leftists” sounds extreme, “bringing a gun to confront an organized, armed antigovernment band” might be more sympathetic even in Portland, and in the world beyond “the reason we have guns is to shoot pinkos if they try to take over the neighborhood” is a pretty basic rightist theme.

So my guess at how this gets used in the current Portland environment is it gets used to power an effort against armed political activity. When you march around with guns to claim the streets for cursing the established order people who live established lives along those streets take it as a hostile act against them and resist you \u2013 with guns \u2013 and people end up shot.

This’ll also get spun as usable against rightist “chuds”, the establishment saying “actually no you don’t protect you, we protect you”.

The left will of course be split by the triune possibilities:

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