A former Marine pleaded guilty Thursday in a 2022 firebombing attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in California, federal prosecutors said.

Chance Brannon, 24, is one of three men charged in the Molotov cocktail attack on the building in Costa Mesa, which occurred while Brannon was an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton, officials said.

No one was hurt in the March 13, 2022, incident, which occurred in the early morning when no one was there. The front entrance had some burn damage, and the clinic had to reschedule about 30 appointments.

Brannon also had a rifle with a Cyrillic message that referred to death and a racial slur, as well as a thumb drive with a recording of the Christchurch, New Zealand, white supremacist mass shooting, the plea deal says in a statement of facts that Brannon agreed to.

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    What if P.P. protestors instead went to volunteer at an orphanage or something? Maybe spend that time providing daycare services? Literally anything to make new parents’ lives easier rather than worse?

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      I’ve got a buddy who is staunchly opposed to abortion. Not banning it, just personally opposed to it. Raised super Christian. Like, Halloween was OK with his parents but DnD wasn’t.

      If you ever bring up abortion around him, dude will GO OFF about how Republicans have absolutely ruined any chances we have at actually ending abortion, by trying to ban it instead of addressing the most common reasons people have abortions.

      It’s so fun to hear a guy I ostensibly disagree with on abortion shout about how the actual Christian thing to do is to revamp adoption, provide free childcare services, provide money to new parents, and have universal healthcare.

      “Banning it just causes harm to women and makes innocent people into criminals” is my favorite fake of his.

      Imagine a world without the GOP ruining everything.

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        It’s okay, if they were the kind of people to do A instead of B they wouldn’t be monsters to be inflicted upon others.

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      That would be solving problems instead of “preventing” them in the first place.

      If only their “prevention” wasn’t a fucking terrorist attack…