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Old 01-08-2011, 01:56 PM
 
Location: Niceville, FL
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“Sarah Palin has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district and when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there are consequences to that action.”
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on MSNBC, 3/25/10

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Old 01-08-2011, 01:57 PM
 
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Shooter identified as 22 year old Jared Laughner.
Sounds like a Muslim name. Or is it Mexican?
 
Old 01-08-2011, 01:58 PM
 
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What is morbid is the actual attack and attacker(s). What is morbid are the inane, off base, and explosive partisan comments.
Of course that is morbid, I agree. Do you agree that putting gun targets on political opponents is morbid?
 
Old 01-08-2011, 01:58 PM
 
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I agree that gunowners should not be unfairly targeted. Pundits and politicians who advocate violence, even in jest should be targeted, and their rhetoric censored, because there are people who will take their suggestions seriously. It should take place on both sides of the aisle, left wing and right wing pundits who hint that violence is a solution are a major problem in this country.
Prayers for all those hurt or killed by this nut case.
We don't censor people because a nut case could be listening.
Let me make this easy for all here. NOBODY in any normal group says GO KILL THAT CONGRESSMAN.
This has zero IMO to do with the far left, the far right, gun control advocates or the NRA.
I don't care if the gunman was listening all day to Obama tapes, Rush Limbaugh tapes or Elmo tapes. The responsibility in judgment and choices were with the gunman.
Obama, Limbaugh, Elmo, the NRA or anyone else does not advocate anything IMO but making your changes in the voting booths or making statements by non-violent ways.

IMO, a nut case, drugs, bad parents, abuse, mentally deficient, schizophrenic or a obsessed religious nut case with no bearing in reality was at work here.

My prayers and I hope all others here as well for all victims and their families. God Bless!
 
Old 01-08-2011, 01:58 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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I know you're being sarcastic, but really?? Not funny. 18 yr. olds/22 yr. olds tend to be pretty idealistic, but I'm sure he's got any number of mental problems. ( the not funny comment was to the Muslim/Mexican name comment)
 
Old 01-08-2011, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Washington state
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Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal View Post
What is morbid is the actual attack and attacker(s). What is morbid are the inane, off base, and explosive partisan comments.
tell that to her father

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Her father Spencer Gifford, 75, wept when asked if his 40-year-old daughter had any enemies.
"Yeah," he told The Post. "The whole tea party."
Daily Kos: Giffords' father blames 'the whole tea party'
 
Old 01-08-2011, 01:59 PM
 
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I think it's sort of morbid and sad that a woman is dying in an Arizona hospital and the horrible partisan people on this website are already looking for ways to blame the other side.

You people have no shame and make me sick.

They caught the gunman. We will know rather quickly why he did what he did. He will probably be on the cover of all the magazines. There is no reason for us to even speculate at this point, we will know soon enough.

But some of you people are so hateful and so gleeful of blaming the other side that you can't stop for a second and show some respect. YOU are what is wrong with this country.

Anytime a grown man walks into a crowd and shoots an unarmed woman point blank in the head, killing people around him indiscriminantly, we should be shocked, speechless.

But not you people. "I bet he was a leftie, I bet he was a rightie!!" As if it matters. As if it freaking matters.
thank you jaybrown80!
 
Old 01-08-2011, 02:00 PM
 
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AP sources: Ariz. gunman ID'ed as Jared Laughner (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/08/AR2011010802631.html - broken link)
 
Old 01-08-2011, 02:00 PM
 
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True. Especially when the followers of Palin demagoguery aren't particularly intelligent that they can tell symbolic from literal.
Its sad that peoplke use such a tragedy to promote their own view ihnt and attck others that have nothign to do with the crime. I balme it on the person who shot here;plenty of sick people evrywhere as we have seen tiem and agin. Schools seem the most common now days really for such things.
 
Old 01-08-2011, 02:01 PM
 
Location: My little patch of Earth
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Of course that is morbid, I agree. Do you agree that putting gun targets on political opponents is morbid?
It was a MAP fer gripes sake...........

What about the Florida politician who described her own political actions as 'bomb throwing' while her party was in the majority?
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