Sharon Angle takes zero responsibility for her "2nd amendment remedies" comment....

[cynatnite]

Former Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle denied her campaign rhetoric helped motivate the Tucson gunman and accused the media of "finger-pointing towards political figures" to boost ratings.

Angle's suggestion during the midterm campaign that voters could pursue "Second Amendment remedies" to settle political differences with Congress has been widely criticized in the wake of the attack that left six people dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in critical condition.

"I have consistently called for reasonable political dialogue on policy issues to encourage civil political education and debate," Angle said in her first statement addressing the fallout from Saturday's attack. "Inappropriately attributing blame of a singular tragedy to achieve a political agenda is contrary to civil discourse, and is a media ploy to which I refuse to belong."

At the time, Angle said she was "speaking broadly" and not advocating violence.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/other-races/137401-angle-media-inappropriately-attributing-blame-for-tucson-shooting-

:eyes: Right.

[jpak]

1. "I have consistently called for reasonable political dialogue" - no you have not

it's on videotape and we all have seen your 2nd amendment solution statement.

Lying sack of tea party shit.

yup!

[leftofcool]

2. Quick! Your pants are on fire

[Xipe Totec]

5. She's exercizing her right to bare legs nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Mao would be very proud of Sharon

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

Just proves that the far right and the far left can agree.

:hi:

[cling2reality]

4. Given how chatty she was during the campaign,

I wish someone would put a microphone in front of her and ask "What is a second amendment remedy?". Please give some examples of what you were talking about.

[Kurovski]

6. They tried that, and she ran away.

Literally ran away every time.

[cynatnite]

7. Yep, I think she broke some records with the all the running from the press. n/t

[Kurovski]

11. I think it's Angle, not Palin who should be in the spotlight.

There is no way to spin what she said. She said "Kill people you don't want in office."

[kevinbgoode]

8. Another mentally unstable person and irresponsible public figure.

shoot. . .she was "speaking broadly" and didn't really MEAN anything. Cuz everyone knows right wing alarmists only say these things to be entertaining - they don't really mean anything at all.

[aikoaiko]

9. And of all the comments from elected leaders, this was the most troublesome to me.

[BzaDem]

10. "Second amendment remedies" is not in any way ambiguous.

Of course, the context makes it worse (it was directly compared as an alternative to remedies such as voting, if voting wasn't successful in electing her), but even without context such a comment can only mean one thing.