General Discussion

In Russia, dissidents and contrarian opinions have a tendency to fall out of windows or from high places or be poisoned or imprisoned.

In America, its not surprising to see gun violence befall one who advocated for 2nd amendment absolutism - even if it meant people would die; though I assume he thought the people dying venn diagram would not include him (an overcompensated, bigoted and hateful white man espousing the values that support and define white male hegemony for profit and notoriety).

In the end, whether Trump-Epstein is related at all or not, the world did not suffer a great loss today, it just witnessed a core law of nature occur - when you plant seeds of hate, you raise a flower of fire; and if you live in the way of it, those flames consume without deference or designation or favor. If one doesn't want to die by the flames, one should not douse themself in gasoline and play with matches while smoking cigarettes and trying to lit a charcoal grill.

That does not excuse anyone from throwing lit matches at people (or shooting them either), but it also does not absolve the guilty of their own culpability for their own demise.