Timeline of Any Real or Attempted Assassination of Someone on the Right

A political figure on the right is assassinated or a victim of an attempted assassination.

10 minutes later: the right blames the left, without knowing anything about the shooter or his politics.

The next day or two: it is revealed that the shooter either had no party affiliation or was on the right after all.

Same day: right-wing media ignores that fact and highlights unsubstantiated or irrelevant claims that the shooter is trans, supportive of trans people, and/or (for the sake of RFK Jr.) on the autism spectrum.

Next day: right-wing media start saying the shooting is proof that the left has anger and violence problems, ignoring evidence from a libertarian research group’s findings:

Same day: the right decries that social media is full of left-wing people who say they wanted the victim dead, ignoring the surges in death threats for politicians on the left, largely as a result of Trump’s false claims that Barack wasn’t a citizen and committed treason.

Same day and every day going forward: the right continues to offer only thoughts and prayers about shootings of any kind while continuing to get A ratings from the NRA.

Same day: at least one murder of a child or teenager takes place somewhere in a poor neighborhood in the U.S. and is completely ignored by right-wing AND left-wing media.

Every day in the future, the U.S. will have twice as many guns per 100 people as the next country. Oh, and that’s 125 guns per 100 people, so an average of more than one gun per person. (The nuts with 100s of guns spoil the curve.) As for some of the most populous nations (according to the World Population Review):

• Pakistan: 22.6 per hundred

• Brazil: 8.3 per hundred

• India: 5.3 per hundred

• China: 3.6 per hundred

• Nigeria: 3.2 per hundred

Every day in the future: the right will blame gun violence on everything but access to guns.

Sometime in the future: rinse, repeat—this will all happen again.