Arizona Tragedy Pt. 2. Who Really is to Blame? It's Impossible That It's Him (sic)

Now that the left is out of power they can't believe they lost the election and they are going on a rampage and pulling out all the stops blaming conservatives and Sarah Palin and the Tea Party for this shooting. Never mind that this was the act of a deranged individual whose college classmates and professors feared he might bring a gun to class and referred to him as a "left wing pot head." Never mind that this kid was obsessed with books such as "the Communist Manifesto" and Hitler's "Mein Kamph" and into mind control. Never mind that there were red flags going up about this kid's psychotic behavior, no it was Sarah Palin's fault for drawing targets on a map where democratic congress people are. It was talk radio's fault. Tucson's democratic sherriff Clarence Dupnik took pot shots at Rush Limbaugh saying,"The kind of rhetoric that flows from people like Rush Limbaugh, in my judgment he is irresponsible, uses partial information, sometimes wrong information," "[Limbaugh] attacks people, angers them against government, angers them against elected officials and that kind of behavior in my opinion is not without consequences."

Hey Sheriff Dupnik, did you ever hear Obama's comment to republicans saying, "If they bring a knife,we bring a gun?" Isn't that comment (which he took from the movie The Untouchables by the way. It was Sean Connery talking to Kevin Costner ) Isn't that kind of talk irresponsible? I guess not as long as you're a democrat.

Hey Sheriff Dupnik, how do you know if this guy even listened to talk radio or Rush Limbaugh or even saw the map on Sarah Palin's page. If you look at his website like I did you'll see he was too busy burning American flags while wearing a death mask and writting his jibberish about mind control. In the video of him burning the flag, he has a sound track by a heavy metal band that says over and over "Let the bodies drop. Let the bodies drop" so why doesn't the sheriff blame heavy metal music. People said this kid had earphones on all the time. This is probably what he listened to. Listening to that kind of music over and over was bound to make indelable impressions in his already disturbed mind.

Bob Eberle in The Loft had this excellent commentary:

We knew it was coming, and sure enough, the left wing zealots in this country are turning a national tragedy into a reason to attack conservative values. As you may have heard, on Saturday, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head by a deranged individual who was so focused on ending her life that he killed several more people in the process, including a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl. Now, the blame game begins as the media and liberal politicians point the finger, not at the man who pulled the trigger, but at talk radio, the Internet, and any conservative source of information.

The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan immediately tied in former Republican Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin to the Arizona shooter’s motive. In a Saturday 2:46 PM post, he writes: When a congresswoman is shot in the head in the very act of democracy, we should all pause. This is fundamentally not a partisan issue and should not be. Acts of violence against political figures destroy democracy itself, for both parties. We don’t know who tried to kill congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (she appears to be still alive) and we should be very cautious in drawing any conclusions yet about why. But we can know that, whoever tried to kill her and for whatever reason, political rhetoric involving words like “target” and “gun-sights” is inherently irresponsible.


What??? We can’t say the word “target” any more? Is he serious? It’s just a perfect example of free speech under attack. Liberals can and do say anything, but given the opportunity to stifle what they perceive as contrary thought, they will. The Times’ author notes that Democrats have used similar terms, but apparently it’s ok for them to do so. Check out this link to a page on the Democratic Leadership Council’s web site in which certain “targeted” districts were marked with, guess what? Yep… targets.

Not surprised at all that the Congressman who wanted legislation to make it the word crosshairs and bullseye illegal, is a Democrat, “never to let a crisis go to waste”, that must be their motto!!!! It's irrelevant that the shooter is a deranged man, let's just smear Tea Partiers and Gov Paliin. The liberals are not going to keep quiet, cos to them, to smear and defame someone is, “free speech”, but when you try to speak the truth, the cry foul!!!

Meanwhile with all the media blame and hate speech going on from people who claim to have the corner on civility where is all the attention to the vet who tackled the shooter or the woman who took the magazine from his hand and gun or the young intern who attended Giffords' wounds and others in the area.? Where are the interviews with them the real heroes of Tucson that day? Everyone blames everyone else except the real culprit, this deranged young man who opened fire on a crowd that day. As Bob Dylan once said, "And who really is responsible for any one man carrying a gun? Surely it is impossible that it's him."