The Arizona Shooting and American Political Discourse

[AmishSamurai]

It sounds like she'll survive, but a lot of people died, including little kids. The guy probably was just a nutcase and not politically motivated, but for the past 2 years the Tea Party has been screaming for blood of democrats. Now they have it.

[BigTinz]

Fucking right wing psychos.....

You know, you NEVER hear about the left calling for elimination or assassination of anyone. This neo-con mindset, ala rush limbaugh, is dangerous. It's a "palette swapped" facist belief system in my opinion.


The shooter was politically motivated.

[Czernobog]

Fucking right wing psychos.....

You know, you NEVER hear about the left calling for elimination or assassination of anyone. This neo-con mindset, ala rush limbaugh, is dangerous. It's a "palette swapped" facist belief system in my opinion.


The shooter was politically motivated.

I heard dozens of people say Bush should be shot and the vast majority of them weren't exactly right wing. To say everything is caused by people on one side of the fence and not the other only exacerbates the problem. It's this hugely inflammatory left vs. right attitude that seems to have American politics so askew as of late. Instead of focusing on which party's right, people need to share opinions constructively while looking at multiple sides of an issue and work towards compromise.

[ZeroAX]

Fucking right wing psychos.....

You know, you NEVER hear about the left calling for elimination or assassination of anyone. This neo-con mindset, ala rush limbaugh, is dangerous. It's a "palette swapped" facist belief system in my opinion.

In the rightest country in the world they might not, but here we have radical left wingers calling for violence as much as radical right wingers. Anyway there's a reason they are usually called extreme. Any political party which calls for violent behavior should be banned from parliament imo.

[AmishSamurai]

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/09/132784957 ... t=1&f=1001

[Hatta]

Honestly, I think we're long overdue for some political violence. This particular incident however seems to be the work of a crazy person than a revolutionary.

[the King]

Fucking right wing psychos.....

You know, you NEVER hear about the left calling for elimination or assassination of anyone. This neo-con mindset, ala rush limbaugh, is dangerous. It's a "palette swapped" facist belief system in my opinion.


The shooter was politically motivated.

A guy that lists The Communist Manifesto & Mein Kampf as a couple of his favorite books isn't exactly a right wing psycho...

[lisalover1]

Fucking right wing psychos.....

You know, you NEVER hear about the left calling for elimination or assassination of anyone. This neo-con mindset, ala rush limbaugh, is dangerous. It's a "palette swapped" facist belief system in my opinion.


The shooter was politically motivated.

But, speaking seriously, I think it's a general consensus that extremism towards any ideology is a bad idea.

[Ack]

Fucking right wing psychos.....

You know, you NEVER hear about the left calling for elimination or assassination of anyone. This neo-con mindset, ala rush limbaugh, is dangerous. It's a "palette swapped" facist belief system in my opinion.


The shooter was politically motivated.

Just saying.

[Michi]

I don't think the shooter was politically motivated. I think its more that he used the idea of politics as a justification to hurt people. People like that (whether hate filled, deranged or mentally unstable) will use their own illogical reasoning to justify the death of others.

We keep seeing stories like this and it really saddens me. Part of me wishes there was some way that we could help people like that before they got to that point on instability instead of having to deal with the consequences of ignoring it later.