2 Minnesota lawmakers both shot in separate home invasions. SUSPECT IN CUSTODY

danmanne65 · Jun 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM

OklahomaGator said: ↑

It was baseball practice!
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Practice? Are we talking about practice?

danmanne65 · Jun 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM

ncargat1 said: ↑

But river is not wrong. Here is the thing.....

I find calling for anyone's death abhorrent. Even people I really dislike. Donal Trump is a perfect example. I loathe him, have for many, many years before almost anyone on this board knew who he was other than an epic failured at realestate development.

However, you do not call for people's death. You just don't.

At the same time, as President of the United States, Donald Trump should have NEVER said some of the thing he has said, up to and including the whole "kidnap Biden" non-sense.

So, we have a choice. We either run around and arrest everyone who does and says provacative, stupid things, or we finally realize it is time to back away from where all of this is headed.
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I am a fan of punishing people for actions and condemning them for thoughts.

sierragator · Jun 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM

rivergator said: ↑

Mike Lee Draws Outrage for Posts Blaming Assassination on the Far Left
The Republican senator from Utah suggested in social media posts that the killings were the work of “Marxists,” and mocked Minnesota’s Democratic governor. He later issued a more sober condemnation of the violence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/mike-lee-minnesota-assassination-democrats.html
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Giving Tuberville a run for his money on saying really stupid things.

rivergator · Jun 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM

Wash Post looks at his background and how he changed.

Minnesota shooting suspect went from youthful evangelizer to far-right zealot
Residents in Vance Boelter’s hometown are struggling to reconcile what they knew of him with the killing of a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband.

Friends and neighbors of the 57-year-old Boelter say they are struggling to understand what drove him to masquerade as a police officer and allegedly shoot two state legislators and their spouses in predawn hours Saturday — leaving state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband dead and the other couple seriously injured. Some point to his teenage conversion and the startling change that followed, one that became very public in Sleepy Eye, a burg of about 3,500 about two hours southwest of Minneapolis.

Through much of high school, Boelter was like every other teen, according to his lifelong friend David Carlson. But after Boelter declared himself a born-again Christian, he began preaching in the local park — even living there in a tent, Carlson said.

“Everything in his life — he just changed,” Carlson said Sunday. “People were saying, ‘Yeah, Vance is in the park preaching.’ He was just trying to spread the word about Jesus.”

His senior year, Boelter was named “Most Courteous” and “Most Friendly,” according to images of his high school yearbook shared by one of his classmates. It listed him as captain of the basketball team and a member of the baseball team, football team and chorus.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/17/vance-boelter-minnesota-shooting-christianity/

reboundgtr · Jun 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM

VAg8r1 said: ↑

The only one remotely similar was the guy who shot up the Congressional baseball practice.
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Or the folks who shot tried blowing up the Senate in the 80s I believe. Yeah tow the line that these are peaceful protests.

VAg8r1 · Jun 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM

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Or the folks who shot tried blowing up the Senate in the 80s I believe. Yeah tow the line that these are peaceful protests.
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An example from over 40 years ago by a very small fringe group not associated with or supporting any US political party. Got it.
https://sites.ecu.edu/cwis/2021/02/1983-the-bombing-of-the-u-s-capitol/

gtr2x · Jun 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM

rivergator said: ↑

Wash Post looks at his background and how he changed.

Minnesota shooting suspect went from youthful evangelizer to far-right zealot
Residents in Vance Boelter’s hometown are struggling to reconcile what they knew of him with the killing of a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/17/vance-boelter-minnesota-shooting-christianity/
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Far right zealot??? Gee, I'm sure that can't be true.

We were told by several very knowledgeable posters here relying on their objective journalistic sources that the shooter was a "LIBERAL"

At least, hopefully we can all agree that law enforcement did a great job in capturing him before he could attack any other politicians/doctors, etc on his kill list.

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