America in a nutshell

I 2nd this. If you stop me or my wife the first thing I need to see if a badge, id, and warrant. Not one or the other. 2out of three at least.

This is exactly where the 2nd amendment and the Blue Lives Matter movements collide. If both civilians and police have the legal right to arm and defend themselves with lethal force, and neither has a responsibility to show restraint or demonstrate cause, then you have created a situation where an innocent civilian and a good cop could kill each other in self defense and neither would have done anything wrong.
Edit: I'm not going to respond to each comment saying there are no good cops. My point is that the cop does not have to be a bad cop for the civilian to have reasonable fear for their life, nor does the civilian need to be a criminal for the cop to have a reasonable fear for their life. Both are legally justified in killing the other person, and both are legally entitled to own a weapon capable of killing the other. That's not a society, that's a war. Ir we didn't already have a police force, and you described their function in their current state to a peaceful society, they would think you were mad.
- It always blows my mind when I see Back the Blue flags next to Gadsden flags. Who do they think is doing the treading?!
- A good cop won't create a situation where an innocent civilian will feel the need to use lethal force.
- There are no good cops.
- a good cop
  Lol
- a good cop
  Well now you just blew the argument by making an impossible scenario =^)
- I wonder how many people who support both movements would consider themselves “pro-life.”
- Do people actually believe this stuff? There have been many tv shows for decades where they literally follow police around with a camera. And anyone who tries this “give me your badge number, you need a warrant, you don’t have probable cause” gets arrested. They don’t even make a secret about it.

MAGA Nut Kills political opponents.

End story.

Civil War is in the beginning stages between L.A. and this.

Sure, it started on inauguration day... but, now it's truly ramping up.

Civil war my ass. The actual civil war had a clear geographic and economic divide between a manufacturing, wage-labor north and an agrarian, slave-owning south.
The fuck kind of divide is this supposed to be over today? Left/right culture war? Most people are still completely checked out. Yankees are very very comfortable (precarious comfort, but still comfortable) and lead 99.99% identical lives to one another. There is not going to be a civil war.
- Calling it Left vs Right culture is kinda over simplifying it but kinda. The problem is that a lot of regions have shifted in their beliefs and even further separated since the civil war, just cause I and a Utah Mormon live vaguely similar day to day lives doesn't mean we are culturally compatible.
  This is closer to the Yugoslav troubles before its initial break down in the 90s, a bunch of cultures who while broadly similar on a surface level have friction with one another regardless due to deeper issues. It just happens to be manifesting on a political level since most Americans will happily suppress their own regional identity in favor of the American imperial Identity.

I think it bears mentioning that the “deranged maniac” title isn’t the whole story. I don’t know about this guy in particular, but a lot of these guys are all part of far-right online cliques that share propaganda amongst each other while valorizing the guys who do this shit.

I wouldnt be surprised if right wing websites are celebrating this guy as a hero and an example to follow
- To be fair, we are celebrating whoever did what Luigi is accused of as a hero.
...that's pretty much ICE's recruitment demographic...

Hold on, someone killed legislators? Is this a hypothetical or did this just happen?

What news have I been missing out on? Actually maybe I'd rather not know, too much depression right now.

I gotchu fam:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/targeted-shootings-minnesota-rcna212831
2 democrat lawmakers were assasinated, plus the dog, and he had more targets.
- We had Luigi, now we have his archnemesis, the Waluigi
- plus the dog
  Method acting, i see.
- One was assassinated. The other was only injured.
A MN state rep and her husband were murdered and a state senator and his wife were shot and are in "grave" danger.
- Not just murdered, assassinated.
The short answer: yes

Was he really a deranged maniac, though, or was that just part of him pretending to be a cop..?

If you like to play cop you're a deranged maniac anyway, so tomato tomato
Man some people take method acting way too far.
What part of being a cop, or wanting to be a cop, disqualifies someone from being a deranged maniac?
- I don't think you read their comment correctly.
  They are saying that being a deranged maniac is part of their pretending to be a cop, not that it disqualifies them from being a cop.
- None. Rather, it's practically a requirement. Hence my question.
- i'm just being a deranged maniac as a hobby. i don't get paid for it like the popo

not surprised a right wing evangelical pastors, that did this, he had a hit list targeting other democrats, and abortion providers.

You got a source?
I can't find anything online about the killer being caught or even being identified. It may even be a real cop.

“Police Officer means Terrorist? What a country!”

freest country in the world! Ahhh, the ~~serenity~~freedom!