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...by "talking honestly about Republican HATE speech on radio, on television..."?
How?
Where is the connection between Loughner and anything idiots like Palin or Beck have to say? Where is there even the slightest indication Loughner gave a squirt of piss what Caribou Barbie babbles about. Is there even the slightest shred of evidence Loughner ever even saw Palin's stupid target map?
There is none.
Did the "tone of the debate" cause John Hinckley to shoot Reagan? Oops, that's right, he was trying to impress some Hollywood actress.
Your trying to attach political speech to this assassination attempt and it appears extremely unlikely such a connection exists. For all we know this guy was just obsessed with Giffords for some bizarre reason we will never understand because he is crazy.
The crime rate in this country is going DOWN, not up. For decades now the crime rate has mostly been declining. Political speech, no matter how loathsome has not caused some epidemic of violence and I rather suspect most people trying desperately to tie this person to the right are just doing so hoping it limits their ability to communicate their message. It won't work. Period. Taking this line is only going to blowback on us. I want MORE tough talkers on the left, not less. I want MORE Big Ed's, Olbermann's, etc on the left, not some toned down wimpy liberals self censoring in order to "tone down their rhetoric" when the other side clearly never will. Neither side needs to "watch their tone", there is no evidence that ANY of the "heated" political rhetoric we're all supposed to be afraid of is causing violence.
If Loughner is tied to the tea party or some right wing group, that evidence will come out and they will be either shamed or prosecuted. As of now it appears we are dealing with a crazy person not unlike the VT shooter.
All this babble about changing the tone is utter hogwash. The "tone" probably has nothing whatsoever to do with this mass murder, there is likely no serious way to link it to Palin or anyone else on the right, and it will only end up putting Democrats, Progressives and the left in general in the position of having to self censor ourselves in some ridiculous effort to "change the tone".
Something good can come of this. We can lobby hard to get people that have mental health issues help when they need it. It could have saved a lot of lives in this instance, dozens more when the VaTech shooter murdered dozens, and countless other lives taken because someone was sick and needed mental health.
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