Placing Blame

[LawnLover]

I'm sorry, but you can't place blame on right wing rhetoric for a violent act unless that violent act is done by an otherwise reasonable and sane person. Someone who ISN'T mentally ill, but kills in the name of that cause.

This guy is mentally ill. He could potentially have been spurred on by, oh, I don't know, a song like Helter Skelter. Would The Beatles be to blame?

People are dead because a man with problems went postal. Words, no matter how vile they might be, did not cause him to go pull that trigger. His illness did.

[valerief]

1. Buh bye forever!

[LawnLover]

2. Thank you for your thoughtful contribution. nt

[Motown_Johnny]

3. Fail, RWers know that mentally ill persons exist and expect some to react the way

this guy did


It is a numbers game. Keep pushing the buttons and sooner or later someone is gonna snap.

[FarPoint]

4. Right Wing rhetoric validates the delusional thoughts of the mentally ill.

It encourages them to rise to the cause....fear and be afraid rhetoric becomes their call to duty....paranoia runs rampant.

[cynatnite]

5. You seriously don't think an insane person can't be driven to violence by words?

Where have you been?

[pintobean]

10. Maybe it was a violent video game

maybe it was the voices. The fact is, we don't know.

[seabeyond]

6. i am sorry. you are wrong. nt

[pintobean]

7. A lot of people here realize that.

A lot of people are politicizing a tragedy.

[AnnieBW]

8. They didn't light the match or throw it into the fire

They just built the fire and handed a crazy person the matchbook.

[Lint Head]

9. It sounds like you know very little about mental illness. I could be wrong.

I heard from several psychiatrists today. There are several hundred thousand schizophrenics in our country today. Most are being treated.
A mentally ill person can be influenced by propaganda, particularly incessant propaganda. The majority of right wing propagandists own the airwaves.

I hear the word 'crazy' thrown around a lot. Mentally ill people are not crazy. It takes a conscious effort to be crazy.
Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck and Savage are dangerous and crazy to say the things they say.

[table1]

11. haven't had time to keep up today

has any proof came out that he was right wing? was he just mentally defective ?

[Angry Dragon]

12. You are so totally wrong

Would a sane person vote against their best interest??
Would a sane person refuse to consider looking at facts??

[emdee]

13. Where is that rule written, other than here by you? nt

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