I've had a hard time with the way the Tucson shooting is being used in the media, both conservative and liberal, to wave the bloody shirt at the other side. The shooter seems to have been an equal opportunity whack job.
Tam does a good job dressing down those who immediately assume that the perpetrator is someone from the opposite side of any issue.
Deebow over at Blackfive does excellent work in arguing that political speech didn't make the troglodyte who shot a Congresswoman in the head and then spray a crowd.
As for me, I want to see the wounded healed, the dead buried and mourned, the families comforted, and the monster who did this prosecuted. If there was a larger conspiracy, I want it tracked down and obliterated. But I refuse to blame anyone other than the man who pulled the trigger for the death and suffering he caused.
Part of the responsibility entailed in adulthood is taking responsibility for your actions, and holding others responsible for theirs. Nowhere in there does it say you get to blame a third party in order to score political points.
Tam does a good job dressing down those who immediately assume that the perpetrator is someone from the opposite side of any issue.
Deebow over at Blackfive does excellent work in arguing that political speech didn't make the troglodyte who shot a Congresswoman in the head and then spray a crowd.
As for me, I want to see the wounded healed, the dead buried and mourned, the families comforted, and the monster who did this prosecuted. If there was a larger conspiracy, I want it tracked down and obliterated. But I refuse to blame anyone other than the man who pulled the trigger for the death and suffering he caused.
Part of the responsibility entailed in adulthood is taking responsibility for your actions, and holding others responsible for theirs. Nowhere in there does it say you get to blame a third party in order to score political points.
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