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The poster I was responding to said ricin was sent to her.
It seems unlikely the sender believed it to be ricin, which would make that case different from the bomb sender here who sincerely attempted to send a bomb, and it may have detonated if not handled by experts.
But anyway, nuts on the right and the left are just . . . nuts.
Prayers that decent people on both sides rise above this lunacy.
Except that they were handled by multiple people and thrown around postal facilities and in courier bags and didn't detonate.
They're only explosive if you add some kind of switch that would set them off. Since none of these had anything like that, then "potentially" is a very loaded word.
Look, the guy is going away for a very long time, as he should. But let's not pretend that there was a deadly threat to anyone who was sent one of these bombs.
It's like saying someone could potentially die if you pointed an unloaded gun at them and pulled the trigger. Yes, if you fundamentally changed the situation by adding bullets.
The FBI disagrees with you.
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A “latent fingerprint” on an envelope sent to California Rep. Maxine Waters was key to cracking the case, FBI Director Christopher Wray said. The 13 bombs found so far were not “hoax devices,” he said, calling them “IEDs,” or improvised explosive devices. None of the devices exploded before they were recovered by authorities. While the FBI’s lab is still working to determine if the devices were functional, Wray said, they did contain “energetic material” — meaning the right combination of heat, shock or friction could have set them off. https://www.rollcall.com/news/politi...t-hoax-devices
It’s difficult to feel that sense “of all being in this together,” when one is referred to as a pathetic unintelligent person, by people who literally live in this forum and spend their entire day and night posting against our President.
This is particularly curious given the very carefully worded statement from FBI Director Christopher Wray about the nature of the device(s): “energetic material that can become combustible when subjected to heat or friction.” While Director Wray went to great lengths to state the devices were “not a hoax“, if the device was an actual explosive device the charges for each of the incidents would equal a life-term.
Read that whole article, interesting to say the least.
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