Brief Ramble on the Tuscon Massacre

[motherwell]

On the one hand, it is perfectly obvious by now that the factors that drove Jared Laughner to fire into a crowd at a political event Tuscon, AZ, killing six, were purely psyciatric, and not at all political. If there's a political agenda to be discerned from his words and actions, it is one wholly perverted by the sick workings of a sick mind

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[virginia_fell]

If there's a political agenda to be discerned from his words and actions, it is one wholly perverted by the sick workings of a sick mind.

On the other hand, the exact same thing can be said of the vast majority of the rhetoric we've been hearing from the Republican Party since 1992, if not since 1980.*splorfle

[peaceful_fox]

An interesting look at Palin's comments:

http://www.stonekettle.com/2011/01/blood-libel-what-sarah-palin-should.html

[phoenix_glow]

OFF with their heads! Hmmm, fight back or turn the other cheek? Well, the escalation of hostility has to stop somewhere. Ghandi preached a nonviolent method to counter British Imperialism in India and it did get them somewhere. Of course Ghandi himself was killed. There are no easy answers.

Wow

[anonymous]

Seriously - speaking of insane, infantile...have you checked your medication levels lately? You are spinning out of rationality altogether!

Hold it together, man! We're counting on you to provide a rational voice, a moderate voice of reason!