If this guy was so unstable that a twitter comment and a map on Sarah Palin's website was enough to tip him over the edge and commit attempted mass murder then almost anything could have been the "trigger". I don't think it would stand up in court.
You're mixing up cause and effect, the Tea Party aren't causing people to go out and do horrible things in the name of politics, they're the natural result of a country that for years has walked all over it's citizens. Perhaps this guy felt the same way, perhaps not, but immediately linking him to the Tea Party when it's pretty clear posters don't even know whether Giffords is dead or not is deeply ignorant and insensitive. The facts aren't clear yet, so please refrain from making hurtful accuations.
I'm not mixing a damn thing. I'm not accusing Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Jan Brewer or anyone of the ignorant people who constantly engaged in that hateful speech about "second amendment remedies", "reloading" and all of that gun tootin' garbage for conducting the physical act of shooting the congresswoman so don't even try and twist my statements to make it seem as if I'm blaming them for that. But if you want to sit here and act like all of the constant verbalization of violent rhetoric for the last 2+ years didn't play a factor then you're
beyond naive and need to refrain from spewing your opinion on this subject. Because even a psycho needs a stimulus to provoke a response.
This isn't about whether or not the people in question are Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Tebaggers or whatever. Remember that I said this because the next time you claim that I'm engaging in some mindless political attack I'm going to call you stupid.
People who want to represent this nation and its citizens need to be held to a standard that includes speaking in ways that don't have the potential to stimulate or provoke violence among the masses. The same way I don't want to hear fake-ass gangster rappers screaming about grabbing their gats and pulling their clicks, I don't want to hear my politicians who are supposed to be symbols of a civilized society speaking in analogies about the same damn thing. Even though they doesn't use street slang, people like Palin, Angle, Paladino, Brewer, Bachmann and so many others speak just as gutter as your everyday gang member in the ghetto. And they need to be called out for their bullshit because it pushes all the wrong buttons and entices all of the wrong people. Beyond all of this... if Sarah Palin didn't think what she said didn't have any influence, she and her people wouldn't be scrambling so hard to delete all of the tweets, Facebook posts and images that talk about "reloading".
If you can't put aside your "left vs. right" thinking on this one, then do yourself a favor and refrain from even trying to refute what I say. I'm honestly sick of the bullshit.
