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Hello and welcome, he is Gary McNamara.

I'm Eric Harley as we move into a Tuesday Gary alone.

Hey, how are you?

I'm just reading here Charles Cook from National Review.

Yeah.

What are the rules? Donald Trump was targeted by a shooter for the second time in two months and somehow the former president is the one being blamed for it.

Consider this a forlorn cry of exposition and specificity.

Will someone somewhere in the God's name of all that is good and true?

Tell me what the bloody rules are for determining

whether rhetorical bombast counts as merely everyday hyperbole or as an ineluctable prerequisite to political violence.

I have looked and looked for a pattern but despite having pride up the floor boards and scoured the attic and investigated every last

corner of the basement, I can find no standard that I find satisfactory.

Yesterday, Donald Trump's life was threatened for the second time in two months.

In response I have seen two lines emerge from the media.

The first is that the attempt should not be blamed on his critics, but on the would-be shooter who was crazy. The second line is

that by some extraordinary reason that I evidently lack the intellect to

comprehend the blame for having been targeted lies the rejected the idea that political arguments ought to be blamed for the actions

of vicious criminals. I am also instinctive agreement with the first approach but

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