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My point, if there is one, is that the current climate of calls, implicit or explicit, to violence and violent resistance to political ideas that you simply don't like (or have been instructed not to like) coincides with a similar increase in politically motivated violence and that, while we don't have all the facts yet, may be connected in some way to the shooting of which this thread is about. Moreover, because calling for political violence serves no beneficial function in a free society such as ours, it's long past time there was universal—that is, left, center, and right—denouncement and repudiation of these obvious threats. Not only is it not okay to so subtly suggest "Second Amendment remedies", as only one many many examples, but these stupid and irresponsible statements should be met with a wall of condemnation from the entire country, which includes conservatives. If Keith Olbermann were calling for violence, I'd be calling his ass on it even stronger than I am this. When Alan Grayson called his opponent 'Taliban Dan', the left, overnight, abandoned him. What I'm seeing in this thread is apologists. What the hell would possess you to try and make excuses for calling for violence? Are you really that entrenched?
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