Comment by wmkn
5 years ago
Because the exact phrase has historical context [1] in a sense of: if you loot, we shoot. Clearly it wasn’t said in a sense of: looting inevitably leads to violence.
That makes it sound like Trump used it in a similar fashion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/where-does-phrase-...
Looting doesn't lead to violence, looting is violence.
Fair point. ‘Looting inevitably leads to innocent people getting shot’ is probably not what Trump meant.
Looting will and must lead to the police taking action to do their most basic job—protecting the life and property of the people. This means almost certainly people will be shot, some guilty, some innocent.
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