RCP making it really clear they have a lot of jackass writers out there: Headline dumbasses . So Jared Loughner is crazy, we can all agree to that. Now we have a lot of this one side blaming the other stuff, which is fair, Rep. Giffords sure wasn't targeted for being a stay-at-home-Mom. Explicitly stated, you can't go around calling one half the debate communists, socialists, death-panel advocates etc. without inciting violence that's just not going to happen. If you say reload enough, somebody will reload.
Yeah, you could use the heavy metal defense, music inspires the madness. Video games and Movies are in that vein too, but you'd be ignoring one key observation. Real-world politics are not viewed as imaginary worlds except by the most hardened political observers. In a movie you can stab a girl in the heart with an adrenaline needle, get shot by a boxer, and then the boxer discovers a racist cop sodomizing a criminal mastermind. That can happen in a movie because movies are imaginary. It is designed and presented as an imaginary situation. Same with music, Drowning Pool's bodies is based off the lead singer's observation of mosh pits (deceased). The lyrics are his poetic (stretching poetry for many) expression of the visual. Then you add a little Thrash guitar and some double-foot pedal drumming. Voila a song is created that for my own personal experience I use to piss myself off extra hard when I go to the gym. With the understanding that it's not about going out back and shooting people in the head.
Enter Jared Loughner or really garden variety disturbed person. Jared may have done what he did regardless of political inclinations, but he probably would not have targeted who he did without them either.
Now we have a real problem though, because in this instance I don't want to be right. I want the Right to be right on this. The reason you may ask? Because if I'm right, unless the tone of the debate changes after this tragedy, more people will die. It is that simple, if this is endemic due to the civic discourse then we will see a continuation of violence. High correlation is never the same as causation, but it is an accurate predictor.
Gun Rights: btw to the anti-gun folks out there, this guy did nothing wrong to merit any kind of weapons purchasing block. Suspicion is never good enough for preemption.
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