rep gabrielle giffords, d-az, shot in the head in tucson

[kalmn]

violent rhetoric breeds violent acts.

here's a screenshot of sarahpac's website with crosshairs over giffords' district.

http://instagr.am/p/68p0/

federal judge john roll killed by same shooter who shot giffords.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/tpm_confirms_federal_judge_shot_at_incident_in_ari.php

when this happens in other countries, we call it what it is, a politically motivated assassination or assassination attempt.

when it happens here in the us, it's always the act of one deranged loner, acting alone, entirely his own motives, not influenced by anyone or if he was, it was all an accident and whoever said that surely never meant for it to be taken that way.

wake up.

reasonable people can in fact disagree on the issues.

that's not the situation we're in here in the united states.

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[kalmn]

cabell makes a good point, over on fb, that being mentally ill does not excuse or explain his actions, in and of it's self. the mentally ill are not any more violent than people who are not (although their crimes are overreported), and the shooter has apparently called out sarah palin's gunsights map as something that inspired him.