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'Mental illness' not an explanation for violence

Jan 11, 2011 21:10

'Mental illness' not an explanation for violence

Shortly after Jared Lee Loughner had been identified as the alleged shooter of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, online sleuths turned up pages of rambling text and videos he had created. A wave of amateur diagnoses soon followed, most of which concluded that Loughner was not so much a political ( Read more... )

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mollywobbles867 January 11 2011, 16:46:49 UTC

Thank @God for this article. I am so sick of the ableist language in the media surrounding this.

thecityofdis January 11 2011, 16:59:28 UTC

Is God on Twitter?

mollywobbles867 January 11 2011, 17:02:03 UTC

Yes! http://twitter.com/god

danyjoncew January 11 2011, 17:13:51 UTC

I thought it would be funnier. I like this one (excuse Google Translator): http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http://twitter.com/ocriador&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhhYVkdx7RUSszF5YNJHXWR_NaPB4w

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erunamiryene January 11 2011, 16:47:03 UTC

GODDAMN, FINALLY.

kanjou_spectrum January 11 2011, 16:50:04 UTC

\o/

everythingonit January 11 2011, 16:51:09 UTC

There was a guy on the news just now saying that most mentally ill people are not violent.

He also said the shooting had nothing to do with politics at all and it's all about this person's unmedicated mental illness.

While he may very well be mentally ill, he did target a political figure. SO I would venture to say that this mentally ill person's violence was political.

He thought Gifford was a fraud. She somehow crushed his dream and he went after her. If he just wanted to shoot people, that could have easily been done at a distance.

He went up to her and shot her.

nikoel January 11 2011, 17:34:23 UTC

Yeah, my guess is he met her in 2007 and became obsessed with her. We've seen that he has paranoia about government and she's an elected official he was able to have personal contact with, so he fixated.

bemused_leftist January 12 2011, 03:17:08 UTC

Loughner had a form letter from Giffords thanking him for attending a rally several years ago (perhaps during the period when a former friend described him as leftist, hippy, pothead). After the incident of the unanswered question, he often criticized political actions of Giffords, called her stupid, etc.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/jared-lee-loughner-friend-voicemail-phone-message
[ Account of a current friend ]
"[Loughner] told me that Giffords opened up the floor for questions [in 2007] and he asked a question. The question was, 'What is government if words have no meaning?'" He said, 'Can you believe it, they wouldn't answer my question.' Ever since that, he thought she was fake, he had something against her ( ... )

nova_42 January 11 2011, 16:53:54 UTC

this is from msnbc, it's obviously part of the far left/marxist/kenyan/liberal/gay/radical-islam/atheist agenda!!!