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Minnesota politician shot and killed, another injured in "targeted political violence" (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 2 days ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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How is this not bigger news?

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Soo what is the motive?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

One possible motive is that the Minnesota legislature had a one-seat majority for the Democrats. Shooting two Democratic representatives might have been an attempt to change the math.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Terrorism, I would expect. Let's see if a suspect is apprehended and charged under Minnesota law as such, since they have a terrorism law on the books.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, yeah, but what is the motive for the terrorism, I mean.

Terrorism is violence with a political goal. So what is the political goal of this?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago

To discourage anyone slightly left of bat-guano insane evangelical right from running or legislating against bat-guano insane evangelical right agendas, I would imagine, but I can be wrong.