Yes, that's it in a nutshell. Very well put Judy.
--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected], "seventhray1" <steve.sundur@> wrote:
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> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > > Steve, Joe's right. BillyG's comment was about as mindless
> > > as they come. That doesn't necessarily put him in a box, but
> > > it sure does tell us something about him, as your approving
> > > response to it does about you.
> >
> > The impression I got from Joe's post was that he was chomping at the bit
> > to make a connection that was not warranted, at least by the current
> > facts. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps if I went back to the post and
> > reread it, I would come to a different conclusion. But right now, that
> > sounds too much like work, and at the moment I just want to chill.
>
> Next time chill before you make a dumb comment.
>
> It's only natural for Palin's map with gunsight crosshairs
> targeting Giffords to leap to mind when Giffords was shot.
> That's what leaped to *Palin's* mind, for pete's sake;
> that's why she immediately took down the graphic.
>
> Tea Party types, especially in Arizona, have been
> increasingly using violent rhetoric against those who
> disagree with them. Again, it's only natural for that
> fact to leap to mind when a congresscritter who
> opposes Arizona's anti-immigrant law is shot.
>
> But obviously we don't have enough information yet to
> know whether there was any connection. It turns out the
> guy is a nutcase who apparently had no particular
> partisan axe to grind, so he most likely wasn't trying
> to further a political cause by shooting her (and 17
> other people, killing six of them).
>
> HOWEVER, loose talk about solving problems with guns
> that's sort of "in the air" can affect disturbed people
> regardless of whether they have specific political goals.
>
> It's entirely possible, in other words, to criticize the
> Tea Party rhetoric on an occasion like this without
> necessarily painting the shooter as a Tea Partier.
>
