Best wishes to Gabrielle Giffords and all the rest.

[mojave_wolf]

I'm sure everyone by now has heard Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot while meeting with constituents in Arizona today. I'm guessing it was either because she was pro-choice, for immigration reform, she voted for the health insurance bill (hey, I hated it too, but I'm not gonna run out and shoot people over it, fuck all), she

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[sartorias]

Thank you teabaggers.

And if they get their way, her insurance won't pay for her hospital bill, because being shot could be called a pre-existing condition, or elective surgery, right?

[mojave_wolf]

Yeah, for real. It's systemic, with them. Not all of them are crazy, or totally lacking in compassion and empathy (I mean, I *know* some people w/far right crazy viewpoints who are actually quite nice and caring, just severely misinformed and/or brainwashed and/or delusional), but you could never tell it from their campaigns and their political stances.

[don_fitch]

There are always some Seriously Crazy people around, of course, but it seems to me that the Conservative/Right Wings (of American Political Parties, Islam,Christianity, &cet.) attract (& encourage, up to a point, whereupon they hastily disavow them) considerably more of these than the Left/Liberal Wings. Hey, it's been a long time since I've heard about Anarchist terrorists tossing round bombs with a sputtering fuse.

[mojave_wolf]

oh hell yeah. I dunno which side *attrracts* more violently-inclined types, but the right wing in the US definitely *encourages* the violence. Palin's "Don't Retreat-Reload" ads, and apparently Giffords' opponent last fall had a campaign rally where he encouraged people to bring guns and fire at targets? WTF?

I mean, this won't make the happy person w/plenty of money and family/friends they love go out and shoot people, but the already disturbed folks w/no job and no family who think they have nothing to live for and no future?

[mydocuments]

Thank you Sarah Palin for setting the pro-gun lobby back 50 years. Thank you for making a mockery of all the responsible gun owners and operators in America. Thank you for making America less safe, not more safe. Thank you for giving the anti-gun lobby more reasons that they want to take away the rights I have to defend myself.

Fucking worthless cunt.

I hold her as responsible for the shooting of Rep. Gifford as the shooter himself.

[mojave_wolf]

Is certainly causing me to question my own support for concealed carry permits. Of course, this dude sounds like he should not have any permit ever and possibly didn't have one, I dunno. What the hell about the Arizona law just signed (I assumed had no effect on this; too new) that allwoed concealed carry w/NO permit?

Palin definitely contributed, but it's not JUST her. See Giffords' opponent for Congress, who held a target practice rally to remove her from office last year. WTF?

[mydocuments]

Dude, the Western states have the weirdest gun laws I've ever heard of. They make the mind boggle. I don't agree with anyone being issued a CCP without a mandatory gun safety course, but I doubt that the lack of a CCP (assuming the perp had one) would have stopped him from his goal. Crazy people never worry about laws.

I had heard about her opponents last year being very pro-gun, but I hadn't heard that they had a rally like that. What do you mean by a target practice rally to remove her from office? Please, for the love of Christ, tell me that they didn't use her likeness as a target.

[mojave_wolf]

As far as I know, they didn't use her likeness, but the ad for the rally read "Get On Target for Victory in November.Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from Office. Shoot a fully automatic M 16 with Jessee Kelly"Again, WTF

Wolf Blitzer Quote

[caliantrias]

"We don't know if [the shooter] is from the lunatic right or the lunatic left.

He just earned an award for stupid.

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[don_fitch]

Not necessarily stupid, I think. In point of fact, we don't yet know much about the killer, or his motivations. Personally, I strongly suspect that he was a Right Wing Extremist, but Giffords is described as a moderate/centerist Democrat, so Blitzer's implicaton _could_ be right, for a change.

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[mojave_wolf]

I keep hearing her described taht way, yet most of her positions I've seen put her quite solidly in the "liberal" camp.

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[mojave_wolf]

Indeed; for all the right is trying very hard to paint the guy as left wing, *something* pointed him at this woman in particular, and his gold standard stuff puts him very much in Beck/Paul territory.

If the left is gonna start shooting people, presumably they'd start w/people who are actually right-wing.