• Dem Bosain@midwest.social
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    12 days ago

    “Raising a rifle” has a single fairly unambiguous meaning to most people I know;

    Yep, it sure does. But this is a poorly written article from The Guardian. I’m not sure Brits know what an AR-15 is.

    If we assume that what’s in the story is accurate, then yes, to me there is.

    Don’t assume anything. It makes you an ass.

    why did you speculate that he may have been a leftist?

    Because it’s speculation. I see nothing in this one, poorly-written story that says anything other than some armed people in vests shot someone else carrying a rifle, and killed a bystander in the process. I’m almost certain the guy with the rifle didn’t shoot anybody, but that’s just…ahem…speculation.