Alabama’s attorney general on Monday said that an explosive device had been detonated outside his offices over the weekend in the state’s capital city of Montgomery.

“Thankfully, no staff or personnel were injured by the explosion. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency will be leading the investigation, and we are urging anyone with information to contact them immediately,” the attorney general, Steve Marshall, said in a statement.

The explosion occurred early on Saturday morning.

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    This kind of thing becomes common when a government consistently acts against the will of the majority of the population.

    EDIT: Don’t mistake my words for the support of violence. I am simply saying it is inevitable when the public is consistently ignored.

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      You have this backwards. This is very likely a minority (MAGA) outraged that their minority view (no IVF) will not be enforced. They are bombing the attorney general that said he will not enforce it.

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      The majority voted for the people who wanted to keep abortion legal.

      This is the act of someone who knows they can’t win at the ballot box.

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        If you have the numbers of people with the money and time to protest, yes. Though that hasn’t done much to sway the Supreme Court.

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          They were never supposed to be accountable to the electorate (it was obviously a bad call with hindsight). The way the system was designed, that should fall to Congress… but they’ve been derelict for decades now.

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      It’s generally the other way around, where an individual with an opposing extreme view has to be louder than usual due to being silenced by numbers.