“There’s more evidence liberal media influenced Eric Fuller than there is Palin influenced Loughner”
We have to be careful about making such arguments - i.e. that liberal or any other type of media influences killers, and that therefore it is equally responsible. Doing so would be falling into the statist’s trap.
The left is after restricting speech, period. And they will use whatever argument they can concoct to do so - including blaming their own media. For, once they get the law passed, they’ll use it to shut down the opposition.
The argument we need to make is the one that Palin made, i.e. only the perpetrator is responsible for his crime, not what he might have seen or heard. This is consistent with the arguments that guns don’t kill people, people kill people and those are the ones that need to be held responsible.
You’re quite right, only the perp is responsible.
But I happen to be interested in the the ideas and the thinking that leads to his motives. I don’t comment on it for political strategizing, but in pursuit of the truth.