▲ 328 ▼ A quarter of Americans think that the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was staged (www.independent.co.uk) submitted 4 months ago by dude@lemmings.world [M] to c/news@lemmings.world 63 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago (1 child) This one didn't even get past security though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago So you know how there were a few news articles right after 9/11 about cops who forgot their guns in their bags at the airport and whoopsie doodle (the newsworthiness was because everyone was curious about how the law was going to react to that sitiation)? Part of me wonders if some of these are folk just wandering through DC or FL security armed (because in statesia, hoorah guns second amendment something something shall not be Manitoba'd something something) and they just filled out the survey wrong or I don't know. Nothing smells assassinationy about them permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago So you know how there were a few news articles right after 9/11 about cops who forgot their guns in their bags at the airport and whoopsie doodle (the newsworthiness was because everyone was curious about how the law was going to react to that sitiation)? Part of me wonders if some of these are folk just wandering through DC or FL security armed (because in statesia, hoorah guns second amendment something something shall not be Manitoba'd something something) and they just filled out the survey wrong or I don't know. Nothing smells assassinationy about them permalink fedilink source parent