I think you will find that most people here were horrified and it was only when the left - and people such as the sheriff and Giffords’ parents - started accusing the Tea Party or some other unnamed evil right wingers of being behind the shooting that people here felt they had to defend themselves. They also had to counter the charge that the left was all sweetness and light and the evil Republicans were stoking things, and I think that was behind the attempt to find inflammatory words and actions from the left (which is much more prone to violent rhetoric than conservatives).
I think we should go ahead with voting as usual, because this shooting was not politically related. The killer was nuts and it now appears that he had an obsession with Giffords dating back to 2007, when he had some personal contact with her. This is tragic, but it’s not a crisis and it’s no reason to shut down the business of the United States and let the media rant 24/7 about the supposed evils of the Tea Party. Letting them do that will genuinely bring us to a political crisis, and that’s exactly what they want. So I say - a brief time-out to respect the dead, as you would do after any random disaster (for example, if Giffords had been killed in a plane crash), and then back to business.
Agree entirely. There would be a few on the right who would have responded as they did without initial provacation from the left, but most of those raising the hypocrisy of the left are doing such for two reasons - this is just the latest example of the left ignoring their own bilous comments and the left immediately sought to pin the blame for this atrocity on the right before we even knew anything about the actual incident.
So those attempting to draw moral equivalence here have to look at the sequence of events and realize that the reaction of the right is largely in self-defense and a continued unwillingness to allow the left a monopoly on defining the political narrative.
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Really? You don’t think this is political? Really? I have a hard time believing this. You actually said “because this shooting was not politically related.”? Really? Do you actually believe what you said??? Yes he was nuts but how can you say it was not politiical?