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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
I feel really bad about the shootings in Arizona. It is sad that those types of situations happen in this country.
What is even sadder is to hear the left (Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is a Democrat) demonize members of the tea party and the right as the cause of this tragedy. Now they are all talking about having armed bodyguards.
Ridiculous.
Anyone in the public eye can be a target of criminals who walk among us.
I hope the discourse and debate on our differences is allowed to continue. I do not plan on hiding under my bed.
This is a free country, but there are dangers. It comes with the territory.
Mary Jane Newell, Oxford
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What this highlights is the
What this highlights is the weakness in our judicial and mental health system. And the never ending conflict between them. The gunman's "rights" were protected even while he was exhibiting this illness. The most revealing report was when one of his professors went to security to ask if anything could be done with him. Security answered "we can't do anyhting, till he does something." So we are caught between protecting his rights, (justifiably) and watching him spiral out of control. SOME sort of an intervention was needed LONG before this horrible event happened. It's a terrible, terrible dilemma. And this violence is a very rare occurrance with this type of illness. To fling about the words wack job, crazy, nut job, lunatic, and to make this a political argument and point fingers, I guess, is to minimize and dismiss the absolute horror of what happened. This was a terrible event. Sickening and sorrowful. I am caught between anger and sadness.
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As you all have mentioned this is a devastating tragedy and the person to blame is in jail. Sarah Palin's website is absolutely distasteful and hopefully an end to her political career because she is not who I want representing my party when it comes time for the 2012 or any other election!
With that being said I would wager that she had very little to do with the creation of that website, she has people doing those things for her, handlers, marketers, and teams of people doing these things. She trusts in them to make those types of decisions and believes that they know what they are doing, which is a bad mistake. But trying to blame her for a crazy persons actions.
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Whether someone is a Republican,Democrat,Indepedant...whatever....it doesn't matter!! That isn't the reason someone picks up a gun and shoots people!! Every article I have read about this tragic event blames it on a left wing,right wing, no wing...what it all boils down to is this guy is obviously missing a few screws, didn't like the congress woman for his own wacko reasons, and he went off the deep end. We can't blame this tragedy on Sarah Palin...her stupidity didn't cause this. I strongly feel that the fact that she put the crosshairs and remarks for public view was the most idiotic thing a public figure wanting to work for our country could have done! Putting a crosshair picture alone does promote violence!
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This guy was a nut job. There are nut jobs everywhere, and bad things like this happen in a free society with guns.
That said, hopefully this will give both sides some pause. We don't need the firery rhetoric. We don't need to demonize the other side. And neither side is right. Both sides have valid points of view that can be best served through compromise.
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I like your second paragraph a great deal Publikwerks. Those are words of wisdom for this website, for the country, and for the world. I think you should just keep posting that paragraph again and again. Peace.
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Tron, your hatred of republicans is well known on this forum. For you to sit there and write about how hateful and dangerous they are is a joke.
You constantly call them "bigots", "racists", "right wing wackos", and "white sheet wearers".
You, Tron, spew more hate than any conservative on here.
Listen Tron, this guy was a left wing wacko, but nobody made him do this but himself. Nobody else is responsible,.
If there was a group of people that was responsible for influencing him, it would be people like you that spew a constant stream of hatred towards anyone that disagrees with you.
It's people that harbor intense hate like you do that are the real danger.
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This man had a beef with this congresswoman in 2007. This is Sarah Palin's fault? This guy is an independent and didn't even vote in the last election. Democrats had a similar target map long before Sarah Palin did. You fail to mention Chris Matthews stating that "someone might jam a co2 pellet in Rush Limbaugh's head and he will explode like a giant blimp."Also you fail to mention Joe Manchin's ad taking a gun and shooting down Obama care. Get the facts before laying blame. This is neither party's fault. This tragedy is the fault of an unbalanced, crazy man.
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tron, left or right, it doesn't matter when you have lunatics out there willing to kill for their political views. Blaming Sarah Palin for the Arizona massacre is really a stretch, even for you.
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More and more evidence is surfacing to reveal that the shooter is not politically motivated, but merely a complete wack job with a long history of bizarre behavior suggesting severe mental illness. He should not have been on the loose.
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he is a pot-smoking, leftist, an avowed atheist with a skull shrine in his back yard. Not to many conservative republicans I know act like that. but how is this for promoting peace?
http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/83137110.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=17A4...
or this?
http://michellemalkin.cachefly.net/michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/uplo...
or this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPIP-i3sdVk&feature=player_embedded
or this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNHuXU8nQ7M&feature=player_embedded
or this?
http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2010/10/26/nut-job-joy-behar-about-sha...
I could give you dozens more examples of crazy leftists hyprocrites but what is the point? You think diversity is fine and want to promote peace and understanding until someone disagrees with you and then you hate and despise them. Yeah, that makes sense.
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yes, MS Newell, but there are some people in this country who encourage this typed of behavior, and will not all of them are from the rabid right, most of them are, and in this case one of them, Sarah Palin, encouraged this outcome. Until the rabid right takes responsibility for its actions, things will never get better.
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Wishing her a speedy recovery, it is fortunate for Ms. Giffords that she is a democrat. Were she a republican, the left would undoubtedly be accusing her of having provoked the shooter.
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desperately seeking a patsy aren't you tron?
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