Trump's 2nd amendment call to arms not a criminal offense?

[CapnAwesome]

No, because he can just say he meant that he was calling them to vote in mass, which is what he said afterwards.

Which would be a hard row to hoe, given that that particular excuse came only hours later, and is also contradicted by the direct next sentence Trump said in the incident itself, the one that isn't usually presented in videos of the threat itself, which I suspect played at least some role in why the Trump campaign felt safe in using that excuse at all. Specifically, Trump's very next sentence suggested that, when the "second amendment people" did what he was imagining them to do, that would be a "horrible day."

... Going out to vote in favor of the thing he's advocating would be "horrible"? Riiiiight.  

The Trump campaign lives in this contextual no-place, where the past, even just a few hours ago, doesn't exist, and the only thing you can rely on is what they're telling you happened, right at that exact moment. They kind of have to, because the candidate at the center of it all has no mental filter, no sense of decency, and a willingness to just do whatever he wants, but the end result is the solipsistic campaign we've seen thus far, where even what's captured on video doesn't matter, everything can be shrugged off, and all you're supposed to care about is what they're saying now, context be damned, prior statements be damned, none of that exists. Every moment is a fresh moment. So you're just supposed to buy the excuse that he was talking about voting, and you're supposed to ignore the very next sentence of the contentious remarks.

Why would you ever play that game for them?

I said myself one sentence later that that wasn't what it seemed like to me. That it seemed like a threat. You know, when you get cherry picked on here that badly and you can't even take what I said in context, you shouldn't be lecturing me on context. You can't arrest somebody for what it seemed like they said though. Not unless you want to change the entirety of free speech/