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Jitendra Joshi

Donald Trump shooting: Gun was primed to fire by wild rhetoric endemic to US politics

The shots that rang out over the agricultural show grounds in Butler, Pennsylvania did not come from nowhere. They came from a gun that has been primed to fire for years.

If he were given to self-reflection, Donald Trump might even be asking some difficult questions of himself about how America has reached this dismal pass. But he isn’t, of course.

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