<\/a>\u201cI could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn\u2019t lose voters,\u201d said Donald Trump recently.<\/p>\n

Fasten your seat belts, America. We\u2019re in for a bumpy ride. The meanest kid on the block just took off the kid gloves and pulled out all the stops. Republican front runner Donald Trump\u2019s recent boast at a campaign rally in Iowa that even if he were to shoot someone he wouldn\u2019t lose the loyalty of his idiot supporters just exploded any remaining pretense of civil discourse this election season.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a closer look for a moment at Trump\u2019s despicable claim. How convenient for the candidate to choose Fifth Avenue for his fantasy shootout. After all, if you\u2019re going to randomly murder someone, why not do it on your own turf \u2013 right outside your own front door? Grab your firepower and a latte. Ride the private elevator down from your $100 million penthouse. Imagine the silhouette of your unsuspecting victim navigating the crowd down on the street below moments before they have the privilege of losing their life by your gilded hand. No need to take time out from your busy schedule to climb into the Escalade and have your chauffeur drive you to one of your other forty New York City houses and apartments on a less high-profile street. What a waste of time and gas. Besides, the photo op will be so much more dramatic when the body falls in a pool of blood on the sidewalk beneath the gold letters that proclaim your name.<\/p>\n

Oh, the wiliness. Oh, the disdain for decency and the sanctity of life. Trump\u2019s brand of sneering chutzpah is beyond belief.<\/p>\n

Allow me the indulgence of delving a bit deeper into the appeal of Trump\u2019s outrageously violent but psychologically clever fantasy. Unfortunately, Trump has the con man\u2019s killer instinct for the power of subliminal suggestion. Trump\u2019s choice of Fifth Avenue as the crime scene and his appeal to his supporters\u2019 dislike of New Yorkers and what their city symbolizes is beyond brilliant. (Forget for the moment the inconvenient truth that this newly anointed populist hero is an examplar of New York\u2019s wealthy super class.) That scary, multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-cultural, leftie, Jewish, Muslim, black, gay, transsexual, Latino, anti-gun, socialist brew provides the perfect target for Trump and his supporters. Giving a wink and a nod to the gun toters\u2019 belief that guns are the sine qua non of what it means to be a patriotic American doesn\u2019t hurt either. And don\u2019t forget the scariest thing of all. Trump is a (serious?) candidate for the presidency who wants us to believe that his supporters are so fanatically enamored with the man and his hate-filled words that even if he\u2019s a murderer they\u2019ll overlook the loss of life and continue to give him their support.<\/p>\n

This is dangerous stuff, folks.<\/p>\n

A satirical view<\/h3>\n

To read another writer\u2019s take on Trump\u2019s latest bombshell\u2014and laugh, rather than cry\u2014here\u2019s satirist Andy Borowitz from The Borowitz Report of The New Yorker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s Plan to Randomly Shoot People Lacks Details, Random Shooters Say\u201d<\/p>\n

One day after Donald Trump claimed that he could shoot people on New York\u2019s Fifth Avenue and not lose support, a leading member of the random-shooting community complained that the billionaire\u2019s random-shooting plan lacks specifics.<\/p>\n

Harland Dorrinson, who heads the largest association of random shooters in the nation, said that Trump\u2019s Fifth Avenue plan \u201clacked many of the key ingredients necessary for a credible random shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no weapons cache, no twisted manifesto to be found later by authorities,\u201d Dorrinson said. \u201cTo anyone in the random-shooting world, Trump\u2019s plan fails on so many levels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, he said, Trump has not put in the many years of solitary seething that most random shooters deem mandatory.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore you do a random shooting, you\u2019re supposed to be quiet and keep to yourself,\u201d he said. \u201cTrump is always shouting at thousands of people.\u201d
\nDorrinson added that although many random shooters have been in the Trump camp thus far, the candidate\u2019s vague random-shooting \u201cplan\u201d is now giving them pause.<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump made it sound like a random shooting is just the easiest thing in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the end of the day, random shooters find that hurtful.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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