Reply #37: I don't, and here's why... [View All]

[MrMickeysMom]

OP - Jared Loughner had a personal beef with Gabrielle Giffords, his grudge against her was about 4 years in the making starting when she didn't answer a question that he asked her well.

Answer: His view was that she was "stupid" without reference. He's unable to make sense and is angry. Sounds like he is not a liberal to me.

OP - Jared Loughner was antigovernment, period. The political books he cites really have only "anti-government" being the theme, you can't really pinpoint any significant political tilt, plus he didn't really read any modern right wing media inspired books.

Answer: This line of reasoning sounds more libertarian. How do you know what he read? The arguments are more suggestive that if he read anything, he didn't put any conclusion to it. He did read Ayn Rand.

OP - Gabrielle Giffords was the closest he could get to contact with the Federal Government (being his closest channel to the government.)

Answer: Sounds like someone who was easy to reach out to and based on his inappropriate musings in post secondary school, he had the ability of a social network without the ability to understand it. Is this anything other than dysfunctional?

OP - There's no clear evidence that he became a hate filled potential killer because of Right Wing Media. He seemed to have been following extreme fringe ideas (like "conscience dreaming" and "mind control using grammar" and that "the world is an illusion"), stuff that really has nothing to do with the left and the right.

Answer: Sure
- While his writings did lineup with some far right wing conspiracies, there's still no clear evidence yet that he was a listener to right wing radio or that he was incited by anybody on the Right Wing to use violence.

Actually, what you've described is a typical person showing up at a tea bag rally, starting in the last election cycle. Who's a likely tea bagger? Okay, now who's the darling of the tea baggers? Bingo - Just because he didn't have posters to honor Palin doesn't mean he didn't rally to her gun roll call. Know anything on the left like that? Me neither!