Presidential town hall and gun show

[prog]

Boy do I have a bad feeling about this.

This is probably the first time I really have to ask what usually strikes me as a lame question: can you imagine what would have happened if anyone pulled this shit around our previous president?

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Despite the unity at the top of the Party, the Proles are divided into two tribes, so if by the "public outcome" you mean the Prole outcome, you have to consider the independent reactions of the two tribes separately.

The Right Tribe would have claimed that the Left were hypocrites and that it proved the need to keep and bear arms.

The Left Tribe would try to blame the gun-carriers for their own victimization.

The Party would use the violence as an excuse to further crack down on domestic freedoms in Amerika.

[Note: I believe all this "for analytical purposes only". I go through my days trying to make sense of the incoherent mess that is the modern United States, the rich, heavily armed psychopath of the international community, and trying to make sense of it in purely Orwellian terms is a kind of literary exercise, although also depressingly plausible.]