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We’ve all seen the stories coming out about Democrat-sympathizing politicians, celebrities, and leftwing trolls assigning blame for the assassination attempt on Donald Trump to the former president, to Republicans, and to gun owners. We’ve also seen stronger sentiments including regrets that the shooter didn’t succeed and declarations to “#killtrump.”

So much for pleas by those inciting the mob to tone down the rhetoric.  Especially noting it’s been going on for so long. But now the haters are being called on it and we’re starting to see repercussions that words and actions have meaning.

Here are just a few examples of malevolent wishes from leftist influencers that have been building up—and inciting weak minds—for years.

Kathy Griffin staged a photo shoot carrying a prop of his bloody head. Johnny Depp “joked about assassinating him. Micky Rourke said he would “love 30 seconds [to] give him a Louisville Slugger. Comedy Central’s Larry Wilmore said he wanted to “smother Trump with “the pillow they used to kill Scalia” to the delight of his audience. Immaterial Girl Madonna said she “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.” Robert De Niro said he wanted to punch Trump in the face. “Anti-gun” Snoop Dogg posed with a toe-tagged Trump double in a morgue video and simulated shooting a Trump clown in the head.

“Would an aneurysm be too much to ask?” actor Ron Perlman tweeted to his agreeing fans in 2018, who “were praying for it every day” and piled on with wishes for “a massive stroke, a heart attack… a KFV chicken bone, a flight of stairs

“Hashtag #wrongtrump trends on Twitter after death of president’s brother,” Fox News reported following the death of Donald Trump’s brother Robert in 2020. “As of Sunday morning, the hashtag was the second highest trending on Twitter, with more than 77,600 tweets, including a journalist and an NAACP leader.”

That’s more than evident with Hillary Clinton calling for “formal deprogramming” of “MAGA cult members,” and Rep. Elise Stefanik’s Democrat opponent proposing “reeducation camps” to deal with the “MAGA nightmare.”

And gun owners get even more special treatment.

“The murderous members of the NRA should face a firing squad,” ultimate talentless nepo celebrity Nancy Sinatra tweeted in 2017. She’d earlier warned Trump, who chose father Frank’s “My Way” for the first dance at his inaugural ball, to “remember the first line of the song ‘And now, the end is near.’”

And that hatred for gun owners predates Trump’s rise to power.

“Want a gun? Take a bullet: Take this, gutless NRA cowards,” Salon Editor at Large D. Watkins raged in 2015. “You can have a gun, once you understand the pain of being shot.”

And a Des Moines Register editorial dictated terms of surrender: “Declare the NRA a terrorist organization and make membership illegal. Hey! We did it to the Communist Party, and the NRA has led to the deaths of more of us than American Commies ever did. (I would also raze the organization’s headquarters, clear the rubble and salt the earth, but that’s optional.) Make ownership of unlicensed assault rifles a felony. If some people refused to give up their guns, that ‘prying the guns from their cold, dead hands’ thing works for me.”

San Francisco actually did put forth such a resolution. And per a Rasmussen Poll, millions of Democrats must agree.

The very fact that the would-be assassin fired into the crowd killing one and critically wounding two others (at this writing) shows that MAGA supporters are “fair game” to them, which is not surprise when you understand that  Donald Trump is an avatar. The unhinged take Joe Biden’s rhetoric that “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye” to heart, and prove the truism about what rolls downhill.

It’s not like this hasn’t all been predictable. No wonder they want our guns.

About David Codrea:

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.