Wolfpack

I am not sure how to interpret your comment here, but rest assured I am not buying any characterization that this attack was politically motivated or that the individual is either a left-wing or right-wing loon. He's just an overall loon. But, if you'll please forgive me for repeating my crude euphemism from above, the left sure is doing their best to get a circle jerk going on this guy blaming everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Sarah Palin for what happened.

chicowalker

The classmate calling him a leftwing pothead story is old -- maybe from the day of the event. 13 also posted that today in attempt to call him a lefty (amusingly, in a post where he decried the politicization of this attack).


I agree.


Is that still going on? I haven't been watching or reading the news today.

Well, it's not like any politicians have anything better to do, given how well everything else in the nation is going...

Wolfpack

I actually think the most telling comments on him were the tweets from his classmate in the adult algebra class. She pretty much openly talked about being afraid when he was around and that he is the type who could show up with a gun and start shooting.
Well, my whole point is that it isn't going on quite as much today as it had been the past few days. And my comments certainly weren't limited just to politicians; I also was intending to include the whole blogosphere and political forums such as this one.

The sad fact is that when something horrible like this happens there are large groups of people trying, with very thinly veiled glee, to do everything they can to blame their political opposition.

IcyPatriot

Loughner is erad3 in the ATS forums.

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Strange ... very strange wirings in that guys brain.

reflexblue

"Mistrust of government was Loughner's defining conviction, the friends said. He believed the U.S. government was behind 9/11, and worried that governments were maneuvering to create a unified monetary system ("a New World Order currency" one friend said) so that social elites and bureaucrats could control the rest of the world."

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DarrylS

Another nutjob that fell through the cracks, perhaps they can now discuss the need to sell 30+ handgun magazines.. but that is doubtful because the NRA will not allow that to happen.

The isolated extremist, who is fueled by the continual messages of hate is a dangerous person.

This guy looks like he is looking for face time, unfortunately there is someone else out there in their mother's basement, thinking about how he or she can get the same pub... so they can add to their cadre of followers on facebook.

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Mrs.PatsFanInVa

I'm not sure anyone is actually saying that,WP. It may be what some people are reading, but I don't think that's the overall message.

What they're saying is the kind of talk that comes from Sarah and Rush and various politically leaning bloggers and speakers contributes to the looniness of either right or left leaning loons.

Now you and I, being extremely rational and at least moderately intelligent individuals, we see crosshairs on a map and we think, "metaphor" and we process, immediately, what is meant by the symbolism. Same thing if we hear someone talking about voting, but using the term "reloading." Ditto for "use your second ammendment remedies," (although even I have a bit of trouble accepting that as a metaphor for anything.....if you could tell me what that's metaphorically standing in for, please share.)

But the lunatic who is already skewed in a violent manner, who doesn't process information as readily or as intelligently or who simply doesn't understand metaphor, he doesn't substitute the intention meant, he hears only intent exactly as it is spoken. He hears it as validation of his own violent tendencies and, eventually, hears it as permission.

There are so many people who do not understand "figuratively" and only understands "literally," WP, and they are dangerous and those who feed them, even unintentionally, enhance the danger.

They've been told this is so, repeatedly, by people who understand this, and now, with this instance, they've also been shown that there was truth and validity to the fear that someone would eventually act literally upon a figure a speech.

Someone (maybe you?) mentioned in another thread that they wondered how many white people had died as a result of Reverend Wright's rethoric - and that "wonder" alone acknowledges the power of words and the fact that someone can exhort something and be totally removed from the actual act and still be held responsible.

Harry Boy

The Loons:
The left wing media, the left wing democrat politicians and all of the face scratching liberals in America want the Right Wing SILENCED in any of it's criticizisim against the left wing, REMEMBER WHAT THOSE LEFT WING BASTARDS THEMSELVES DID TO GW BUSH FOR EIGHT YEARS, they wished everything from plane crashes to cancer on him.

If you have a son, daughter or anybody in your family who is Left Wing Liberal please talk to them, help them.

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you really sound stupid