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Her GOP Opponent held a rally in which you got to take turns shooting at pictures of Gabby Giffords with HIM. The GOP poured millions into this thug to stir up hate. You should have seen the anti-semetic crap that was being spread abut her. They even went after her husband, the Astronaut.
I still think it's somewhat premature to say the gunman was rightwing or leftwing. At the moment he looks like a very deranged man, a left/right hybrid. We need a lot more information to be released before we make judgments.
But I do think it is a pertinent and interesting question why the shooting happened in Arizona now. But that's another thread here.
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I think the issue of the shooter being a full-fledged whack-o, is pretty cut-n'-dry.
What isn't cut and dry, is how EASILY full-fledged whack jobs in this country can obtain easily concealable firearms?
Until THAT issue is resolved, expect to see more senseless killings in the future.
And what to do? Because most paranoid schizophrenics never harm anyone and it would be terrible to lock them all up - but what can be done?
Meds and therapy are good for a while then when they're not, they stop taking the meds because the voices tell them they're being poisoned and everyone else is crazy and they are the only sane ones. They won't get back on the meds until they hit rock bottom. It's a lifelong cycle and that's for someone who is loved and cared for. Not everyone can handle them so they turn them loose into society.
A machine gun? He used a single semi-automatically hand gun with a high capacity magazine. Hell I have a concealed carry permit and regularly carry the same general type of weapon with a 16 round capacity.
My apologies...I confused the suspect with her GOP opponent who held a fundraiser at a shooting range. So many right-wing gun nuts & so little time.
One veteran Democratic operative, who blames overheated rhetoric for the shooting, said President Barack Obama should carefully but forcefully do what his predecessor did.
“They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers,” said the Democrat.
Even though the guy is a leftist.
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