At the moment, I don't blame ANYONE but the shooter himself.

[Bicoastal]

And this will remain my position until more facts about the shooting come to light.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

1. ... and then?

[Bicoastal]

6. That will be subject to the nature of the facts. nt

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

11. .... and then?

[Bicoastal]

15. Possibly a sandwich.

:shrug:

[Lucinda]

2. I'm with ya.

[backscatter712]

3. And if you've looked at his Youtube videos, you'll see the shooter's a paranoid schizophrenic.

He's seriously mentally ill.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10

And a video linked from his now-defunct Myspace page...

http://www.youtube.com/user/Starhitshnaz

This person has some seriously bad wiring in his head...

[grahamhgreen]

9. Which makes him easy to manipulate by national figures.

[backscatter712]

17. Yep. Don't think that the right-wing hate machine throws out this rhetoric just for fun... n/t

[TheKentuckian]

12. The TeaPubliKlan target demographic.

They are responsible for stoking this atmosphere and telling absurd lies for years now.

No dice on the diffusing nothing to see here bullshit.

[bbinacan]

4. At last

some reason.

[WinkyDink]

5. "Will no-one rid me of this troublesome priest?"

[killbotfactory]

7. The shooter is the one responsible, but the inflammatory violent rhetoric from the Tea Party

certainly doesn't help. That type of crap piled on top of economic and political upheavals is bound to stir up the crazies. They need to be called out on their bullshit.

[uppityperson]

8. I also blame hate speech and promoting killing people you disagree with, advocating

violence as people like this listen to it and take it seriously.

[makokun]

10. Here here

I'm not putting on any tin foil hats while I "hope" for a convenient scape-goat.

[OregonBlue]

14. What exactly does that mean?

[Skittles]

19. means "troll"

[OregonBlue]

20. LOL. Notice he/she didn't stick around. Just hit and run trolling!!!

[Skittles]

28. means "COWARD"

yes INDEED :D

[EFerrari]

13. In order to do that, you have to ignore the violent rhetoric of the Republican Party

dating roughly from the moment Sarah Palin was chosen as a VP candidate.

[Warren Stupidity]

16. of course you won't

Just keep those blinders on and ignore the three years of non-stop coordinated violent rhetoric promoting exactly what this person (or persons) did.

[Skittles]

18. does this help?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/08/arizona.shootings.suspect.social/index.html?hpt=T1

[lunatica]

21. I posted an OP that I think he's an American terrorist on his own agenda

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x143987

[gulliver]

22. Yup, and maybe not even him.

The guy could be schizophrenic or something. He may have been set off by political rhetoric, and he may not have been. He may be like the Virginia Tech guy.

[joe_sixpack]

23. Which puts you , apparently

in the minority around here, it seems.

[MrsBrady]

24. well there is a search for a second person now

per the Pima County, AZ sherif's office.

[mix]

25. the lone gunman theory redux nt

[Kaleva]

26. Rec'd. Agree.

[JohnnyLib2]

27. Rec.

[Dappleganger]

29. At least blame his parents--where are they?

[Ikonoklast]

30. Nothing ever happens in a vacuum.

And no one isn't influenced by outside forces, including insane people.

Why is it always so easy for some to dismiss the violence coming from the right as 'just some nut'?

It's always 'just some nut'.

They are the footsoldiers doing the bidding of those that are calling for political violence.


A rational person wouldn't do it.


But the dog-whisle isn't aimed at rational people.